Sunday, 23 April 2017

FIR Filter Design: Windowing Method

There are two methods that we have learnt for Finite Impulse Response filters. Windowing Method and Frequency Sampling Method. In this post I am going to talk about windowing method. In this method the input  time domain infinite signal  is multiplied with a windowing function which is finite, to obtain an FIR filter. There are different types of windowing functions. The choice of windowing  function is decided by the value of stop band attenuation.
A Scilab code was written to design an FIR filter. Hanning window was the windowing function used.The stopband attenuation was chosen accordingly. A low pass filter was designed and the observed and input values compared.   

11 comments:

  1. We can also directly call the window function in scilab instead of explicitly specifying the function

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  2. Window function leads to the truncation of infinite values.

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  3. Which is the best window function?

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    1. Selection of window function depends on the stopband attenuation of filter.

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  4. Different types of Windowing functiions are available!

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  5. Which is a better method? Fsm or window?

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  6. What are the different types of window functions?

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  7. Hamming,Hanning are some of the window functions which are used depending on the application.

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