Questions tagged [digital-filters]
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How many taps does an FIR filter need?
I am looking to design a set of FIR filters to implement a low pass filter. I am also trying to reduce the latency of the signal through the filter so I am wondering what the minimum number of taps I ...
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How determine the delay in my signal practically
I am trying to practically determine filter group delay so that I can try to reduce or adjust for it. I have tried all kinds of methods but still can't get the right result. I know that theoretically ...
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Transfer function of second order notch filter
Can anyone mention the transfer function of second order notch filter to remove the line frequency of 50 Hz, in terms of frequency and sampling rate.
Just like for Low pass Butterworth filter as,
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Why do digital filters work?
So I just started reading on FIR and IIR filters and am amazed by how "simple" the theory seems, so far.
But what confuses me is, why does filtering work by creating a weighted sum of previous ...
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FIR Filter Design - input parameters conversion
I am new to DSP and filter design. I have developed a code in C++ to calculate FIR coefficients using Parks-McClellan algorithm. The inputs to calculations are:
Filter type (Low-Pass, High-Pass)
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Different way to separate a particular frequency from a signal
Let's say I have a signal which is composed of 2Hz,10Hz,17Hz,19Hz and 25Hz discrete time sinusoidal waves and I need to allow only 17Hz component to pass.
As far as I know, the standard way to ...
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Exponential weighted moving average time constant
I think it is an easy question but I am stuck.
I want to derive that $$ \alpha = -e^{\frac{-T}{\tau}}\,. $$
Can someone provide me with an answer?
[EDIT] Sorry guys, this was really a senseless ...
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Precise Centre frequency of an All-pole digital filter
I'm not an engineer and have essentially taught myself all I know - this present problem is giving me some problems.
I have an all-pole filter (a gammatone filter - impulse response is essentially a ...
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Complex low pass filters
I am searching for documentation on the behaviour of complex low pass filters, and their application in telecommunications.
Thank you
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Minimum phase FIR method
I am trying to make a minimum phase filter (in wxMaxima) according to these steps:
first create a "normal" FIR (a simple sinc, wc=0.4, random example, but in the pictures a remez with Octave)
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Eye pattern construction and interpretation
I have read some text about the eye pattern (or eye diagram), but I do not understand how should I read it.
The wikipedia definition of it is this one:
In telecommunication, an eye pattern, also ...
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Basic “filtering” in digital communications
I am completely stuck on solving some problems for my digital communications class. Junior level undergrad class, so fairly basic. I have been searching around all day for related articles etc but can'...
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Shall a $1^{\rm st}$ order IIR filter include $x[n-1]$ term?
I have seen a $1^{\rm st}$ order IIR filter in the following form:
$$y[n] = \alpha x[n] + (1 - \alpha) y[n - 1]$$
Such as: another post in this forum
However, the filters generated by Matlab, such ...
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Can I set a constraint on the first tap of an FIR filter such that its inverse is stable?
Let's say I have the following FIR filter $h[n]$, so the output $y[n]$ for an input $x[n]$ is
$$
y[n] = \sum_{k=0}^{m-1}x[n-k]h[k]
$$
The inverse of this filter is given by the IIR difference ...
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Alias-free digital nonlinear filter design
@Jazzmaniac has a good answer to the question of how to design an alias-free digital nonlinear time-invariant filter here: https://dsp.stackexchange.com/a/28787/18276
Basically, according to that ...
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determining type of filter given its pole zero plot
How can I classify a filter given its pole-zero map. For example I've got my zero's located at $\pm j$ and my poles located at $\pm\frac{1}{2}j$.
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What is the largest “safe” order for the digital Butterworth filter of a given signal?
Say I want to apply a zero-phase Butterworth bandpass filter, implemented in MATLAB using butter and filtfilt. So, for an order-$...
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Difference between $\tt freqz()$ and $\tt plot(abs(fft()))$ in MATLAB
I've plotted the response of a high-pass filter x=[1 -1];
freqz(x) gave me
where as the magnitude plot for the ...
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Correcting Impulse Invariance Method
I'm trying to find out if the correction (Jackson, Nelatury, Mecklenbräuker) could improve the (IIM based) filter response near Nyqvist.
Here's my c++ routine (which is used for to calculate various ...
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What Is the Transfer Function of a Moving Average (FIR Filter)?
To make post-processing easier, I export scope measurements as CSV files, which are then post-processed (mostly in Microsoft Excel, which is not the best tool for the job, but it is all I have at my ...
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How to include phase in a sinusoidal Kalman Filter
I start with the equation for sinusoidal motion with an offset and differentiate to get the 2nd order ODE describing the motion of the object.
\begin{align}
x &= A\sin(\omega t + \phi) + O\\
\dot{...
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What's Logic Behind the Construction of Sobel's Filter in Image Processing?
I am basically very new to this image processing field. I am presently working on edge detection on colour images. While learning the basics of edges and edge detection in images, I encountered image ...
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How does parallel structure implementation of IIR speed up the process ? What happens in case of FIR?
I was learning about digital filter structures and there I came to know that parallel implementation of IIR filters speeds up the process and I understand that.But what I am not convinced of is that ...
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Question about zero-phase filter bank
I found what I believe is a valid solution to the following assignment problem but the answer is bothering me.
Let $$H_0(z) = 1+2z^{-1}+3z^{-2}+2z^{-3}+z^{-4}\quad\textrm{and}\quad H_1(z)=H_0(-z).$$...
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Calculation frequency response of digital filter with known structure
Short question
What are main stages (steps) of calculation frequency response of digital filter by their structure?
Detailed question
Let suppose that there is discrete FIR filter with known ...
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Resampling a digital sound signal
As a non maths-pro, I'm looking for some pointers.
I am rewriting the audio core in my emulator to improve accuracy, and am getting a bit stuck on the specifics of the technique.
I am trying to ...
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Frequency conversion in IIR lowpass-to-lowpass transformation
We use
$\ z^{-1} \xrightarrow{} \frac{z^{-1}-\alpha}{1-{\alpha}z^{-1}}$
and
$ \alpha = \frac{\sin(\omega_c^{'}-\omega_c)/2}{\sin(\omega_c^{'}+\omega_c)/2}$
for a lowpass-to-lowpass frequency ...
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Digital filter selection for sensor
I am having a LM35 sensor which gives $10\textrm{ mV}$ signal per degree rise of temperature. Now I have one question, which digital filter will be the best for this ?
This sensor will be use in very ...
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How can I get the continuous-time transfer function coefficients (or poles and zeros) from the corresponding discrete-time TF and vice versa?
Let's say I have a continuous time transfer function which I know its numerator coefficients $(B^c = [b^c_m, ..., b^c_1, b^c_0])$ and denominator coefficients $(A^c = [a^c_m, ..., a^c_1, a^c_0])$. ...
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CIC Filter implementation for Normalized Correlation
This is a follow-on to the original post ...
I am trying to implement real-time correlation of two signals. I noticed the CIC Filter discussion here:
How to find correlation/cross-correlation of two ...
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How to prove a filter has linear phase response?
I have designed an FIR filter to have linear phase response using odd-symmetry design. The coefficients of this filter are {2,1,3,1,0,-1,-3,-1,-2}. I am now being asked to prove it has linear phase ...
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Interpolation and harmonics
A real valued causal sequence $x1[n]$ exists with length of the sequence being $N$.
Valid indices of x conform to $0 \le n \le N-1 $
The DFT of x[n] is:
$$
X1[k] = \sum_{n=0}^{N-1} x1[n].e^{-j.2.\...
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Can digital filters actually separate signals?
I've come to realize what appears to be a hard limit in convolution theorem: to avoid time-domain aliasing, we must pad the signal/filter, but the padding distorts the spectrum.
Consider a ...
