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 Filter (signal processing)

In signal processing, a filter is a device or process that extracts some unwanted components or features from a signal. Filtering is a class of signal processing whose defining feature is the complete or partial suppression of some aspect of a signal. Most often it means certain frequencies or frequency ranges. However, filters do not operate in the frequency domain, especially in the field of image processing, there are many other purposes for filtering. Filters are widely used in electronics and telecommunications, radio, television, audio recording, radar, control systems, music synthesis, image processing, and computer graphics.

There are many different bases for classifying filters, and these overlap in different ways; there is no simple hierarchical classification. Filters can be:

• non-linear or linear
• time variant or time invariant , also known as shift invariance. If the filter operates in the spatial domain, then the characteristic is spatial invariance.
• causation: A filter is not causal if its current output depends on future input. Filters that process real-time time domain signals should be causal, not filters that act on spatial domain signals or on time domain signal processing.
• analog or digital
• discrete time (led) or continuous time
• ve or active continuous time filter type
• an infinite impulse response (IIR) or a finite impulse response (FIR) such as a discrete time or digital filter.

Continuous Time Linear Filters

Continuous time linear circuit is perhaps the most common meaning for a filter in the signal processing world, and simply "filter" is often considered a synonym. Circulars that perform this function are usually linear in their response, or at least approximately so. Any non-linearity can potentially result in an output signal containing frequency components not present in the input signal.

A modern design concept for continuous-time linear filters is called network synthesis. some important filter families designed in this way are:

• The Chebyshev filter has the best approximation to the ideal response of any filter for a given order and ripple.
• Butterfly filter , has the most flat frequency response.
• The filter , has the most flat phase delay.
• Ptic filter , has the steepest slope of any filter for the specified order and ripple.

The difference between these filter families is that they all use a different polynomial function to approximate the ideal filter responses.

Another older, less used dology is the d image parameter. The filters developed by this dology are archaically called "wave filters". Some important filters developed by this method are:

• Constant k-filter , the original and smallest form of the wave filter.
• m-shaped filter, constant k transformation with improved slope and nuisance matching.

Terminology

Some terms used to describe and classify linear filters: 400px

• Frequency response can be classified into a number of different bandpass forms, describing which frequency bands the filter passes (bandwidth) and which it rejects (bandwidth):
• Low pass filter - pass low frequencies, correct high frequencies.
• High pass filter - pass high frequencies, correct low frequencies.
• Band pass filter - only frequencies within a frequency band are passed.
• Band pass filter or rejection bandpass filter - only frequencies within the frequency band are adapted.
• Notch filter - Rejects only one specific frequency - an extreme bandlimiting filter.
• Comb filter - has many regularly spaced narrow passages that give the band a comb-like appearance.
• All frequencies filter - all frequencies are passed, but the phase of the output is changed.
• The cutoff frequency is the frequency beyond which the filter will not pass signals. It is usually measured at a certain intensity, such as 3 dB.
• Roll -off is the rate at which the intensity increases beyond the cutoff frequency.
• Transition band , the (usually narrow) frequency band between the pass band and the stop band.
• Ripple is a variation of passband filter insertion loss.
• The filter order is the degree of the approximating polynomial and in v filters corresponds to the number of elements needed to build it.

Many communication systems use frequency division, where the system

Multi-phase and multi-phase digital modulation systems require filters that have a flat phase delay, are linear phases in the passband, to preserve the integral pulses in the time domain, giving less intersymbol interference than other types of filters.

On the other hand, analog audio systems using analog transmission can carry much larger ripples in phase delay, and so such systems often rake linear phase to get filters that are better than other methods of better stopband rejection, lower bandwidth amplitude ripple, lower cost, etc.

Technologies

The same transfer function can be implemented in several different ways, i.e. the properties of the filter are the same, but the physical properties are quite different. Often the components in different technologies are directly analogous to each other and perform the same role in their respective filters.

• Electronic filters were originally completely resistant, inductance and capacitance.
• Digital filters operate on digitally represented signals. The essence of a digital filter is that it is directly an algorithm corresponding to the required transfer function of the filter, in its programming or microcode.
• The mechanical filter is built from mechanical components. In most cases they are used to process an electronic signal and transducers are provided to convert this to and from mechanical vision.
• Distributed element filters are made up of components made from small lengths of transmission line or other distributed elements. Distributed-element filters have structures that directly correspond to the power elements of electronic filters, and others that are unique for this class of technologies.
• Waveguide filters st waveguide components or components inserted into the waveguide. Waveguides is a class of transmission lines and many of the distributed element structures of filters, such as stub, can also be implemented in waveguids.
• Optical filters were originally designed for purposes other than signal processing such as ignition and y. However, with the development of optical fiber technology, optical filters are increasingly being used for signal processing, and signal processing filter terminology such as long and short channels enters the field.
• A transversal filter, or delay line filter, works by summing copies of the input data after different time delays. This can be implemented using a variety of technologies, including analog delay lines, active circulation, CCD delay lines, or entirely in the digital domain.

Digital filters

Generic finite impulse response filter with n stages, each with independent delay, di and amplification gain , i.e. DSPallows uneconomical construction of a wide variety of filters. The signal is fed in and the analog-to-digital converter turns the signal into a stream of numbers. A computer program running on a CPU or dedicated DSP (or less commonly running on a hardware implementation of an algorithm thread) calculates. This output can be converted to a signal by passing it through a digital to analog converter. There are problems with the noise introduced by the transforms, but they can be manageable and limited for many useful filters. Due to the involved, the input signal must have limited frequency content or overlap will occur.

Quartz filters and piezoelectrics

Crystal filter with a center frequency of 45 MHz and a B3dB bandwidth of 12 kHz. In the late 1930s, engineers realized that small mechanical systems made from rigid materials such as quartz would acoustically resonate at radio frequencies, i.e. from audible frequencies (sound) to several hundred megahertz. Some early resonators were made of steel, but quartz quickly became favored. The biggest advantage of quartz is that it is piezoelectric. This means that quartz resonators can directly convert their own mechanical motion into electrical signals. Quartz also has a very low coefficient of thermal expansion, which means that quartz resonators can produce stable frequencies over a wide range of temperatures. Quartz crystalfilters have much higher quality factors than LCR filters. When higher stability is required, crystals and their drive cycles can be set to "crystal o" for control.

A large number of crystals can be rolled up into one component by mounting comb metal evaporators on a quartz crystal. In this "tap delay line" scheme, the desired frequencies are amplified as the sound travels across the surface of the quartz crystal. The tapped delay line has become a common pattern for making high-Q filters in many different ways.

SAW filters

SAW (surface acoustic wave) filters are electromechanical devices commonly used in RF applications. The electrical signals are converted into a mechanical wave in a device made of piezoelectric crystal or ceramic, this wave is delayed as it propagates through the device and then converted back into an electrical signal by further electrodes. The delayed outputs are recombined to obtain a direct analog implementation of the finite impulse response filter. This d filtering que filter is also in analog filtering. SAW filters are limited to frequencies up to 3 GHz. The filters were developed by Prof. Ted Paig and others.

BAW filters

BAW (bulk acustic wave) filters are electromechanical devices. BAW filters typically operate at about 2 to about 16 GHz and may be smaller or thinner than equivalent SAW filters. There are two main options for BAW filters breaking into devices: thin-film bulk acoustic resonator or FBAR and bulk solid-state acoustic resonators (SMR).

Pomegranate Filters

Another filtering method, at pinhole frequencies from 800 MHz to about 5 GHz, is to use a synthetic single crystal yttrium iron garnet sphere made from a chemical combination of yttrium and iron (YIGF, or yttrium iron garnet filter). The garnet sits on a strip of metal driven by an adapter, and a small antenna loop adjusts the top of the garnet.

Atomic filters

The atomics use cesium masers as ultra-high Q-filters to use their primary oscillators.

Transmission function

The transfer function of a filter is most often defined in the region of complex frequencies. The return and fourth passes to/from this region are controlled by the Laplace transform and its inputs (therefore, below, the term "input signal" is understood as "Laplace transform" representing the time of the input signal, and so on).

The transfer function of a filter is the ratio of the output signal to the input signal as a function of the complex frequency:

For filters built from discrete components (lumped elements):

• Their transfer function will be the ratio of polynomials in, i.e. relative function. The order of the transfer function will be the highest degree of occurrence in the numerator or denominator polynomial.
• All transfer function polynomials will have real effects. Therefore, the poles and zeros of the transfer function will either be real or appear in complex conjugate pairs.
• Since the filters must be stable, the real part of all poles (i.e. zeros of the denominator) will be negative, i.e. they will lie in the left half-plane in a complex frequency space.

Distributed element filters do not, in general, have transfer pounds with relative functions, but can approximate them.

The construction of the transfer function involves the Laplace transform, and therefore zero initial conditions must be assumed, since

And when f (0) = 0 we can get rid of the constants and use the regular expression

An alternative to transfer functions is to make the filter behave like convection of the time domain input signal with the filter's impulse response. Conv em, which supports Laplace transforms, is equivalent to transfer functions.

Classification

Certain filters can be defined by family and band shape. The family of filters is determined by the fitting polynomial used, and each results in specific filter transfer function characteristics. Some common filter families and their special characteristics are:

• Butterfly filter - no gain ripple in the passband and stopband, slow rollover
• Chebyshev filter (Type I) - no gain ripple in the stop band, fringing
• Chebyshev filter (type II ) - no passband gain ripple, fringing
• Cel filter - no group delay ripple, no gain ripple in both ranges, gain slowdown
• Optical filter - ripple gain in passband and stop, fast shutdown
• Filter Optimum "L"
• Gaussian filter - no ripple in response to step function
• Raised cosine filter

Each filter family can be specified in a specific order. The higher the order, the more the filter approaches the "ideal" filter, but also the larger the impulse response and the longer the delay will be. An ideal filter has full passband transmission, full stopband adaptation, and a hard transition between the two bands, but this filter has infinite order (i.e., the response cannot be expressed as a finite sum linear differential equation) and infinite delay (i.e., its compact support in the Fourier transform causes its time response to be ever weakest).

Centre

Here is an image comparing Butterw, Chebyshev and ptic filters. The filters in this are all low-pass filters of the fifth order. The specific implementation - analog or digital, ve or active - does not matter; their output will be the same. As you can see from the image, pit filters are sharper than others, but they show ripples for the entire bandwidth.

Any family can be used to implement a particular band whose frequencies are being transmitted and which, outside of the bandwidth, are more or less considerate. The transfer function is entirely specific to the behavior of a linear filter, but not to the particular technology used to implement it. In other words, there are a number of different ways to transfer one or another transfer function during circulation. a specific filter bandform can be obtained by transforming the filter family prototype.

Obstacle Coincidence

Interference matching structures invariably take the form of a filter, that is, a network of non-dissipative elements. For example, when implementing electronics, it is likely to take the form of a ladder topology of conductors and capacitors. The design of matching networks has much in common with filters, and the design will invariably have a filtering effect as an inherent consequence. Although filtering is not the main purpose of the matching network, it is often the case that both functions are combined in the same circuit. The need for obstacle matching does not arise as long as the signals are in the digital domain.

Similar remarks can be made regarding power and directional couplers. When implemented in distributed element format, these devices may take the form of a distributed element filter. There are four ports to be mapped, and filter-like structures are required to extend the bandwidth. It is also true that distributed element filters can take the form of connected lines.

Some filters for specific purposes

• Audio filter
• Line filter
• Scaled filter ,     
• Texture filtering

Data Noise Filters

• Filter
• Kalman filter
• Savitzky Anti-Aliasing Filter - Golay