This article is an excellent introduction to analog filters. It covers the basic first and second order filter types as well as the advantages and disadvantages of passive and active filters. It derives and analyzes the basic biquad implementation using several op amp implementation examples. The world of filter design is often thought of as black magic because of the myriad of configurations, ...

6 Quadrature Mirror Filter QMF Bank. 1 Errors Created in the QMF Bank. 2 A Simple Alias-Free QMF.Thus, the name quadrature mirror filter is a misnomer, when M 2. However, this has become more or less standard, and there is no reason to change the.In digital signal processing, a quadrature mirror filter is a filter whose magnitude response is the mirror image around pi2 of that of another filter...

The common conviction about FIR (finite impulse response) digital filters is that the number of necessary taps, to reach the same performance as provided by IIR (infinite impulse response) digital filters, is usually too large. Moreover, the standard FIR filter design algorithm (Remez exchange) allows the design of linear-phase filters only. Therefore, IIR filters are often preferred over FIR o...

In this pare, a wideband three-order bandpass filter (BPF) is proposed. The proposed wideband filter is designed using the substrate integrated waveguide (SIW) structure by loading T-shape slots. A BPF with two resonators is formed by etching T-shape slots with different size on the top metal plane of the SIW structure. The filter is investigated with the theory of coupled resonator circuits. T...

The vulnerability of civil GPS receiver to interference may be intentional or unintentional. Among all types of interference, replay attack intended as the most dangerous intentional one. The signal structure of replay attack is almost the same with the satellite signal. The interference effects can be reduce with the design of an appropriate filter in the receiver. This paper presents two meth...

OBJECTIVES Fat microemboli are generated during cardiac surgery that are associated with post-operative organ injury. Recently, a fat removal filter has been developed, based on a polyester leukocyte depletion filter. However, the efficacy of such a filter in a clinical setting is unknown. In this study we tested the efficacy of this filter. METHODS Coronary artery bypass patients were random...

this paper presents a novel microstrip low-pass filter with good performance. a complete detailed theoretical analysis for the proposed filter is given using equivalent circuit models. the proposed filter applying multiple cascaded modified radial stubs resonators provides a sharp cut off frequency response that has a 185 db/ghz roll off rate. also, u-shaped attenuators provide a wide stop-band...

A feedforward active noise control system includes the secondary path filter for compensation of acoustic coupling between loudspeaker and reference microphone. In ordinary systems, the filter is designed to be a pre-set type, without any system identification for it, because the adaptation of its filter taps without any additional noise is difficult. This paper introduces a new identification ...

in order to compare sampling efficiencies of total and inhalable dust methods, three airborne dust sampling systems , 7-hole sampler , close and open face filter cassette were compared side-by-side , as stationary and for the personal samplers , in a wood working industry to evaluate their relative efficiency. a total of 162 samples were collected. the study of particle size distribution by cas...