Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing
AEIE 3104
1. State some advantages of digital filters.
2. What are the requirements for a digital filter to be stable and causal?
3. Distinguish between IIR and FIR filters.
4. Given the specification 𝛼𝑝 = 1 𝑑𝐵, 𝛼𝑠 = 30 𝑑𝐵, Ω𝑝 = 200 𝑟𝑎𝑑/𝑠𝑒𝑐 and Ω𝑠 =
600 𝑟𝑎𝑑/𝑠𝑒𝑐. Determine the order of the filter.
5. Determine the order and the poles of lowpass Butterworth filter that has a 3 dB
attenuation at 500 Hz and an attenuation of 40 dB at 1000 Hz.
Ω𝑝 Ω
6. Prove that Ω𝑐 = 1⁄ = 0.1𝛼 𝑠 1⁄
(100.1𝛼𝑝 −1) 2𝑁 (10 𝑠 −1) 2𝑁
7. Design an analog Butterworth filter that has -2 dB passband attenuation at a
frequency of 20 rad/sec and atleast -10dB stopband attenuation at 30rad/sec.
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8. An analog filter has a transfer function 𝐻(𝑠) = 𝑠2 +7𝑠+10 . Design a digital filter
equivalent to this using impulse invariant method for 𝑇 = 0.2 𝑠𝑒𝑐.
9. For the given specification, 𝛼𝑝 = 3 𝑑𝐵, 𝛼𝑠 = 15 𝑑𝐵, Ω𝑝 = 1000 𝑟𝑎𝑑/𝑠𝑒𝑐 and Ω𝑠 =
500 𝑟𝑎𝑑/𝑠𝑒𝑐 design a highpass filter.
10. Design a third order Butterworth digital filter using impulse invariant technique.
Assume sampling period 𝑇 = 1 𝑠𝑒𝑐.
11. Using the bilinear transform, design a highpass filter, monotonic in passband with
cutoff frequency of 1000 𝐻𝑧 and down 10 𝑑𝐵 at 350 𝐻𝑧. The sampling frequency
is 5000 𝐻𝑧.
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12. Apply bilinear transform to 𝐻(𝑠) = (𝑠+1)(𝑠+2) with 𝑇 = 1 𝑠𝑒𝑐 and find 𝐻(𝑧).
13. What is warping effect?
14. Obtain the direct form-I and direct form-IIrealization for the system described by
difference equation 𝑦(𝑛) = 0.5𝑦(𝑛 − 1) − 0.25𝑦(𝑛 − 2) + 𝑥(𝑛) + 0.4𝑥(𝑛 − 1).
15. Design a Butterworth filter satisfying the constraints
𝜋
0.707 ≤ |𝐻(𝑒 𝑗𝜔 )| ≤ 1 𝑓𝑜𝑟 0 ≤ 𝜔 ≤
2
𝑗𝜔
3𝜋
|𝐻(𝑒 )| ≤ 0.2 𝑓𝑜𝑟 ≤𝜔≤𝜋
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with 𝑇 = 1 𝑠𝑒𝑐 using The bilinear transformation. Realize the filter using
direct form II realization structure.
16. Determine the direct form I & direct form II realization for the system, 𝑦(𝑛) =
−0.1𝑦(𝑛 − 1) + 0.72𝑦(𝑛 − 2) + 0.7𝑥(𝑛) − 0.252𝑥(𝑛 − 2).
17. Obtain the cascade and parallel form structure realization for the system 𝑦(𝑛) =
−0.1𝑦(𝑛 − 1) + 0.2𝑦(𝑛 − 2) + 3𝑥(𝑛) + 3.6𝑥(𝑛 − 1) + 0.6𝑥(𝑛 − 2)
18. The frequency response of a digital filter is, 𝐻(𝑒 𝑗𝑤 ) = (0.7 + 0.6 cos 𝜔 −
0.9 cos 2𝜔)𝑒 −𝑗7.5𝜔 . Determine the phase delay and group delay.
19. Write the magnitude and phase function of FIR filter when impulse response is
symmetric and 𝑁 is even.
20. Write the magnitude and phase function of FIR filter when impulse response is
symmetric and 𝑁 is odd.
21. Write the magnitude and phase function of FIR filter when impulse response is
asymmetric and 𝑁 is even.
22. Write the magnitude and phase function of FIR filter when impulse response is
asymmetric and 𝑁 is odd.
23. What are the possible types of impulse response for Linear phase FIR filters?
24. What are the advantages in linear phase realization of FIR system?
25. What are the possible types of impulse response for linear phase FIR filters?
Fundamentals of Digital Signal Processing
AEIE 3104
26. What is the need for employing window technique for FIR filter design?
27. What is Gibbs phenomenon?
28. Explain the characteristics of rectangular window with typical sketches.
29. Determine the direct form realization of the system function 𝐻(𝑧) = 1 + 2𝑧 −1 −
3𝑧 −2 − 4𝑧 −3 + 5𝑧 −4 .
30. Obtain the cascade realization of system function 𝐻(𝑧) = (1 + 2𝑧 −1 − 𝑧 −2 )(1 +
𝑧 −1 − 𝑧 −2 )
31. Obtain the direct form, cascade form and linear form realization for the system
function 𝐻(𝑧) = 1 + 3𝑧 −1 + 4𝑧 −2 + 4𝑧 −3 + 3𝑧 −4 + 𝑧 −5 .
32. Realize the following system with minimum number of multipliers: 𝐻(𝑧) =
1 1
(1 + 𝑧 −1 ) (1 + 𝑧 −1 + 𝑧 −2 + 𝑧 −3 ).
2 2
33. Realize the following system with minimum number of multipliers: 𝐻(𝑧) = 1 +
1 1 1 1
1 + 3 𝑧 −1 + 4 𝑧 −2 + 4 𝑧 −3 + 3 𝑧 −4 + 𝑧 −5.
