October 2013
Intermediate to advanced
672 pages
21h 34m
English
Content preview from Digital Signal Processing: A Practical Guide for Engineers and Scientists
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CHAPTER 16
Windowed-Sinc Filters
Windowed-sinc filters are used to separate one band of frequencies from another. They are very stable, produce few surprises, and can be pushed to incredible performance levels. These exceptional frequency domain characteristics are obtained at the expense of poor performance in the time domain, including excessive ripple and overshoot in the step response. When carried out by standard convolution, windowed-sinc filters are easy to program, but slow to execute. Chapter 18 shows how the FFT can be used to dramatically improve the computational speed of these filters.
Strategy of the Windowed-Sinc
Figure 16-1 illustrates the idea behind the windowed-sinc filter. In (a), the frequency response of the ideal