A simple numerical derivation of group delay and impulse response from the prescribed characteristic function of a reactance low-pass filter

Author(s):  
Takuro Kida ◽  
Katsumi Kurogochis
Author(s):  
Darine Kaddour ◽  
Jean-Daniel Arnould ◽  
Philippe Ferrari

In this paper, a miniaturized bandpass filter for ultra-wide-band applications is proposed. It is based on the embedding of high-pass structures in a low-pass filter. A semi-lumped technology combining surface-mounted capacitors and transmission lines has been used. The filter design rules have been carried out. Furthermore, two filters having a 3-dB fractional bandwidth of 142 and 150%, centered at 0.77 and 1 GHz, respectively, have been realized for a proof of concept. Measured characteristics, in good agreement with simulations, show attractive properties of return loss (|S11| <−18 dB), insertion loss (<0.3 dB), and a maximum group delay and group delay variation of 2 and 1.3 ns, respectively. A distributed filter based on the same low-pass/high-pass approach has been also realized and measured for comparison. The size reduction reaches 85% for the semi-lumped filter, and its selectivity is improved with a shape factor of 1.3:1 instead of 1.5:1. The semi-lumped filter's drawback is related to a smaller rejection bandwidth compared to the distributed one. To improve the high-frequency stopband, an original technique for spurious responses suppression based on capacitively loaded stubs has been proposed. Even if the performances do not reach that obtained for the distributed approach, with this technique spurious responses are pushed until eight times the center frequency. A sensitivity study vs. critical parameters has also been carried out, showing the robustness of the design.


2015 ◽  
Vol 815 ◽  
pp. 338-342
Author(s):  
Faizah Abu Bakar ◽  
Sohiful Anuar Zainol Murad ◽  
Rizalafande Che Ismail ◽  
Muzamir Isa

This paper presents a review on three types of techniques in designing digital all-pass filters based on group delay. All the three methods use the same basic concept rooting back to the requirement of a stable transfer function of the filter which should be a minimum-phase type, and the denominator group delay. The most optimized of the three is chosen to be implemented in MATLAB in order to decrease the group delay variation of a 5th order Chebyshev low-pass filter with cut-off frequency of 160 MHz. The digital transfer function of the low-pass filter is obtained from the analog transfer function by means of bilinear transformation. The sampling frequency of the digital LPF is 100 times the cut-off ffrequency to retain the response of the analog LPF. Both of the filters are then cascaded together and the overall group delays variations are analyzed. The variations of group delay shows a reduction but the price paid is the increase of the overall group delay of the system.


Geophysics ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 56 (12) ◽  
pp. 1971-1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. Genrich ◽  
J.-B. Minster

We have developed a Kalman filter to estimate accurate Eötvös corrections and horizontal ship accelerations from Global Positioning System (GPS) fixes. High‐resolution shipboard gravity measurements are obtained with a newly designed, linear phase, Finite Impulse Response (FIR) low‐pass filter. Both filters are combined to yield accurate, near‐real time, Eötvös‐corrected underway gravity estimates. Error ranges that reflect uncertainty in navigation for these estimates are calculated from autocovariances of Kalman velocity estimates by means of variance propagation expressions for time‐invariant linear digital filters. Estimates of horizontal ship acceleration are combined with a simplified instrument impulse response model in an attempt to remove transient noise from the gravimeter output. We apply the technique to data collected by two shipboard gravimeters, a LaCoste & Romberg Model S Air‐Sea Gravity Meter and a Bell Aerospace BGM-3 Marine Gravity Meter System, operated side‐by‐side on the Scripps R/V Thomas Washington during Leg 1 of the Roundabout expedition. In the absence of significant horizontal accelerations due to course or speed changes, both instruments yield data with good repeatability, characterized by rms differences of less than 1 mGal. Horizontal accelerations generate transient signals that cannot be modeled at present to an accuracy of better than 5 mGal. Difficulties in removing these transients are primarily due to insufficient quantitative knowledge of the response of the instrument, including the gyro‐stabilized platform. This can be determined analytically or empirically.


2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 103
Author(s):  
Hendra J. Tarigan

A physical system, Low Pass Filter (LPF) RC Circuit, which serves as an impulse response and a square wave input signal are utilized to derive the continuous time convolution (convolution integrals). How to set up the limits of integration correctly and how the excitation source convolves with the impulse response are explained using a graphical type of solution. This in turn, help minimize the students’ misconceptions about the convolution integral. Further, the effect of varying the circuit elements on the shape of the convolution output plot is presented allowing students to see the connection between a convolution integral and a physical system. PSpice simulation and experiment results are incorporated and are compared with those of the analytical solution associated with the convolution integral.


2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 21-27
Author(s):  
I. S. Savinykh ◽  
D. A. Chemasov

Undoubted advantages of finite impulse response filters are their unconditional stability, the absence of limit cycles and the possibility of implementing a filter that does not introduce phase distortion. The disadvantage of such filters is the large cost required to compute the response. This paper considers three-stage interpolated finite impulse response low-pass filters. The maximum values of the interpolation factors are determined. Dependences of the coefficient of computational efficiency and the coefficient of increase in the registers of the three-stage interpolated low-pass filter on the values of the interpolation factors, the widths of the passband and the transition band are obtained. Relations for determining the optimal values of interpolation factors corresponding to the maximal value of computational efficiency coefficient are obtained. In addition, the dependencies of the maximum coefficient of computational efficiency and the optimal coefficient of increase in the registers of the three-stage interpolated low-pass filter on the widths of the passband and the transition band at the optimum values of the interpolation factors are obtained. Considered three-stage interpolated low-pass filters should be used in the case when the required stopband is significantly less than the sampling rate. In this case, three- stage interpolated filters require less computational resources for calculating the response than the two-stage interpolated filters or filter implemented by the transversal structure.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (10) ◽  
pp. 1450136
Author(s):  
ANTONIJE DJORDJEVIĆ ◽  
DEJAN TOŠIĆ ◽  
MILICA DJURIĆ-JOVIČIĆ

Repeatedly passing a signal through a low-pass filter may resemble using a Gaussian or hyper-Gaussian filter. Conditions are established for this resemblance. A theorem on approximation of Gaussian and hyper-Gaussian filters by a cascade of simple filters is established and the corresponding phase and group delay characteristics are analyzed. The theorem and the analysis are exemplified by cascading moving-average filters and the first-order Butterworth filters.


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