Matlab Support for the Window Method

The Matlab Signal Processing Toolbox has two functions which implement the window method for FIR filter design:

• fir1 designs lowpass, highpass, bandpass, and multi-bandpass filters.
• fir2 takes an arbitrary magnitude frequency response specification.

The default window type is Hamming, but any window can be passed in as an argument. In addition, there is a function kaiserord for estimating the parameters of a Kaiser window which will achieve the desired filter specifications.

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.