Group 1 Presentation Fir and Iir Filters
Group 1 Presentation Fir and Iir Filters
• MOST COMMONLY USED FILTERS ARE LOW-PASS, HIGH-PASS, BAND-PASS AND BAND-STOP FILTERS
• THE MAIN REASON TO FILTER A SIGNAL IS TO SMOOTH OUT HIGH FREQUENCY NOISE ASSOCIATED
WITH A MEASUREMENT
• IN THE DIGITAL REALM, THE ARE TWO TYPES OF FILTERS –FIR(FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE) AND
IIR(INFINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE)
PRACTICAL APPLICATIONS
❖HIGH-PERFORMANCE STEREO SYSTEMS
❖THEY ARE ALSO USED IN SIGNAL PROCESSING CIRCUITS AND DATA CONVERSION
• TWO CLASSES OF FILTERS ARE DEFINED BASED ON THE LENGTH OF THEIR LINEAR IMPULSE
RESPONSE
• FIR, FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTERS ARE ALWAYS STABLE AND CAN BE DESIGNED TO HAVE
EXACTLY LINEAR PHASE
• IIR, INFINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE FILTERS ARE UNSTABLE AND CAN’T BE DESIGNED TO HAVE
LINEAR PHASE
FIR & IIR FILTERS
• CLASSES OF FILTERS ARE DEFINED BASED ON THE LENGTH OF THEIR
LINEAR IMPULSE RESPONSE
• THERE ARE TWO METHODS FOR THE APPROXIMATION OF FIR FILTERS
WHICH ARE THE WINDOW METHOD AND THE FREQUENCY SAMPLING
METHOD
CONTINUE
• THE WINDOW METHOD CONSIST OF 7 STEPS WHICH ARE
1. NORMALIZE
2. CHOOSE H(N)
3. CHOOSE WINDOW FUNCTION USING ATTENUATION
4. CALCULATE N
5. CALCULATE H(N)
6. FIND HN(N)
7. TRANSLATE
WINDOW METHOD EXAMPLE
• FIND THE COEFFICIENT OF FIR LOW PASS FILTER USING THE WINDOW METHOD FROM THE
FOLLOWING
• CUTOFF FREQ = FS/10, TRANSITION BAND FREQ = FS/5 AND ATTENUATION IS GREATER THAN
50DB
FREQUENCY SAMPLING METHOD
1
H S = 𝑓 = 5 𝑝𝑒𝑟 𝑠𝑒𝑐
(𝑆 + 1)(𝑆 + 2) 𝑠
ADVANTAGES OF FIR FILTERS
• UNSTABLE
• USUALLY HAS A NON-LINEAR RESPONSE
• HAS A FEEDBACK LOOP HENCE INCREASE NOISE ERROR
• USEFUL ONLY WHEN THE ANALOG FILTER IS BANDLIMITED
• HARDER TO IMPLEMENT USING FIXEDPOINT ARITHMETIC SUCH AS NOISE
• SUSCEPTIBLE TO THE PROBLEM OF FINITE LENGTH ARITHMETIC
• DOES NOT OFFER COMPUTATIONAL AVANTAGES OF FIR FILTER