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M Institute of Technology
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Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering

Digital Signal Processing

Topics Covered
 FIR filter design
 Introduction to FIR filters
 Symmetric and Antisymmetric FIR filters
 Design of FIR filters using Rectangular, Hamming, Hanning and Bartlett windows

1. What does linear phase do to the response of an input signal within the pass band of the filter?

2. Show that FIR filters provide Linear phase response when the impulse response of the filter is symmetric for
order being even.
3. Show that FIR filters provide Linear phase response when the impulse response of the filter is symmetric for the
order being odd.
4. Write the expressions for magnitude and phase response for an FIR filter when the impulse response of the filter
is antisymmetric.
5. Explain the effect of using a window function to design an FIR filter
6. With neat sketch, explain different types of windows used in the FIR filter design using mathematical equations.
7. List the steps in the design procedure of a FIR filter using window functions.
8. Explain Gibbs phenomenon
9. What are the advantages and disadvantages of the window technique for designing FIR filter?
Topics Covered
 FIR filter design
 Problems on design of FIR filters using Rectangular, Hamming, Hanning and Bartlett
windows
Problems
 {
3π
−j3ω |ω|<
e , 4
3. The desired frequency response of a low pass filter is given by H ( ω )=
0 , 3 π <|ω|< π
4
Determine the FIR filter coefficients using Hamming window with N=7. Find the frequency
response of the FIR filter.
4. A low pass filter is to be designed with the following desired frequency response:

{
π
−j2ω |ω|<
H ( ω )= e , 4
0, π
<|ω|< π
4

Determine the filter coefficients hd(n) and h(n) if w(n) is a rectangular window defined as

wR( n )= {1,0 , otherwise

0 ≤n ≤ 4
5. A filter is to be designed with the following desired frequency response :

{
−π π
< ω<
0, 4 4
Hd (ω)¿ − j 2 ω
e , π <|ω|< π
4
Find the frequency response of the FIR filter designed using rectangular window defined below:

{
w R ( n )= 1, 0 ≤n ≤ 4
0 , otherwise
6. Design a low pass FIR filter using window technique with passband gain of unity, passband
edge of 1.5kHz, stopband edge of 2kHz, stopband attenuation of 50dB and sampling
frequency of 8kHz.
7. A low pass filter is to be designed with the following desired frequency response:

{
π
−j2ω |ω|<
H ( ω )= e , 4
0, π
<|ω|< π
4
Determine the filter coefficients hd(n) and h(n) if w(n) is a rectangular window defined as
wR( n )= {1,0 , otherwise
0 ≤n ≤ 4
Also find the frequency response Hd(ω ¿ of the FIR filter.
8. Design the symmetric FIR, lowpass filter whose desired frequency response is given as

{ , |ω|<ω c
− jαω
H ( ω )= e
0 , otherwise
=1
The length of the filter should be 7 and c radian/sample use rectangular window.
ω
 Topics Covered
 Structures of FIR systems
 Direct form
 Linear phase

2. Explain the direct form structure for FIR filter

3. Explain the realization of linear phase FIR filter.
Problems
Extra Problems

4. (i) Realize an FIR filter given by

( ) [ u ( n)−u (n−4)]using Direct form.

n
1
h ( n )=
2

1 1 −1 −2 1 −3 −4 1 −5 1 −6
(ii) Realize the system function H ( z )= + z + z + z + z + z + z using linear phase
2 3 4 3 2
structure.
5. Realize the linear phase FIR filter having the following impulse response,
1 1 1
h(n) = ∂ ( n ) + ∂ ( n−1 )− ∂ ( n−2 ) + ∂ ( n−3 ) +∂ ( n−4 )
4 8 4