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Category Archives: IIR Filters
A one-pole filter
Here’s a very simple workhorse of DSP applications—the one-pole filter. By comparison, biquads implement two zeros and two poles. You can see that our one-pole simply discards the zeros (the feed-forward delay paths) and the second pole (feedback path): We … Continue reading
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Biquad C++ source code
I don’t want to get into the business of teaching people how to code—there are a huge number of free resources available on the internet to that do that. But I’ll give a small taste for those trying to get … Continue reading
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Biquad formulas
For fixed filters, we can plug biquad coefficients into our programs. But often, we need to calculate them on the fly, to user settings or changes in sample rate. As a companion to the biquad calculator, here are the formulas … Continue reading
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A biquad calculator
Something useful: a biquad filter coefficient calculator… Continue reading
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The bilinear z transform
The bilinear transform is the most popular method of converting analog filter prototypes in the s domain to the z domain so we can implement them as digital filters. The reason we are interested in these s domain filters is … Continue reading
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The digital state variable filter
The digital state variable filter was described in Hal Chamberlin’s Musical Applications of Microprocessors. Derived by straight-forward replacement of components from the analog state variable fiter with digital counterparts, the digital state variable is a popular synthesizer filter, as was its … Continue reading
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Biquads
One of the most-used filter forms is the biquad. A biquad is a second order (two poles and two zeros) IIR filter. It is high enough order to be useful on its own, and—because of coefficient sensitivities in higher order … Continue reading
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Pole-Zero placement
Here’s a Java applet that illustrates pole-zero placement. It lets you design a filter with two poles and two zeros, while showing the resulting frequency response and filter coefficients. It’s also handy for learning more about how poles and zeros … Continue reading
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