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1.what Are "FIR Filters"?

FIR filters are one type of digital filter used in digital signal processing. FIR stands for "finite impulse response" meaning that if a single input sample is applied, only a finite number of output samples will be non-zero. FIR filters have advantages over IIR filters such as being linear phase, having simple implementations, being well-suited for multi-rate applications, and having desirable numeric properties that make them less prone to errors from finite-precision arithmetic. However, FIR filters may require more memory and calculations than IIR filters to achieve a given response.

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1.what Are "FIR Filters"?

FIR filters are one type of digital filter used in digital signal processing. FIR stands for "finite impulse response" meaning that if a single input sample is applied, only a finite number of output samples will be non-zero. FIR filters have advantages over IIR filters such as being linear phase, having simple implementations, being well-suited for multi-rate applications, and having desirable numeric properties that make them less prone to errors from finite-precision arithmetic. However, FIR filters may require more memory and calculations than IIR filters to achieve a given response.

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1.What are "FIR filters"?

FIR filters are one of two primary types of digital filters used in Digital Signal Processing (DSP) applications, the other type being IIR.

2 What does "FIR" mean?


"FIR" means "Finite Impulse Response". If you put in an impulse, that is, a single "1" sample followed by many "0" samples, zeroes will come out after the "1" sample has made its way through the delay line of the filter.

3.What are the advantages of FIR Filters (compared to IIR filters)?


Compared to IIR filters, FIR filters offer the following advantages:

They can easily be designed to be "linear phase" (and usually are). Put simply, linear-phase filters delay the input signal but dont distort its phase. They are simple to implement. On most DSP microprocessors, the FIR calculation can be done by looping a single instruction. They are suited to multi-rate applications. By multi-rate, we mean either "decimation" (reducing the sampling rate), "interpolation" (increasing the sampling rate), or both. Whether decimating or interpolating, the use of FIR filters allows some of the calculations to be omitted, thus providing an important computational efficiency. In contrast, if IIR filters are used, each output must be individually calculated, even if it that output will discarded (so the feedback will be incorporated into the filter). They have desireable numeric properties. In practice, all DSP filters must be implemented using finite-precision arithmetic, that is, a limited number of bits. The use of finite-precision arithmetic in IIR filters can cause significant problems due to the use of feedback, but FIR filters without feedback can usually be implemented using fewer bits, and the designer has fewer practical problems to solve related to non-ideal arithmetic. They can be implemented using fractional arithmetic. Unlike IIR filters, it is always possible to implement a FIR filter using coefficients with magnitude of less than 1.0. (The overall gain of the FIR filter can be adjusted at its output, if desired.) This is an important consideration when using fixed-point DSP's, because it makes the implementation much simpler.

What are the disadvantages of FIR Filters (compared to IIR filters)?


Compared to IIR filters, FIR filters sometimes have the disadvantage that they require more memory and/or calculation to achieve a given filter response characteristic. Also, certain responses are not practical to implement with FIR filters.

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