A power efficient and reduced electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions transmitter for unshielded twisted pair (UTP) data communication applications. Transmit data is interpolated by N and processed by a digital filter to obtain the pulse shape required by the particular communication application. The digital filter output data is converted to a current-mode analog waveform by a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The digital filter is integrated with the DAC binary decoder in a memory device such as a ROM with time multiplexed output. When implemented in such manner, the logical implementation and memory replaces digital filtering circuits, DAC decoding logic circuit and re-synchronization logic circuits that are conventionally implemented in hardware. Thus, the hardware functionality of these circuits is rendered into arithmetic form and implemented in a memory device.