"Mook Johnson" <mook@mook.net> wrote in message
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> Wen inplemening a FIR filter, what considerations are given when choosing
> between, rectangular, Bertlet, Hanning, Hamming, Blackman, kaiser, etc windows
> for the coefficients?
My consideration is to choose the Kaiser and ignore the rest! Since it has an
adjustable parameter, you can taylor it to get the response you want. One
reason that you would NOT want to do this is if you had to compute the window
coefficients in real-time, in which case Kaiser would be the most
computationally intensive option. (I have heard there is a computationally
cheaper approximation of Kaiser, but haven't tried it myself.) But for
pre-computed filters, this is not a problem.
> Basically, aside from the attenuation differences at the first hump in the
> stop band, and transition band width, what other characteristics (trade offs)
> are to considered?
The two things you mention are what I usually look at when tuning a Kaiser
window.
Reply by Rune Allnor●September 15, 20052005-09-15
Mook Johnson wrote:
> Wen inplemening a FIR filter, what considerations are given when choosing
> between, rectangular, Bertlet, Hanning, Hamming, Blackman, kaiser, etc
> windows for the coefficients?
>
> Basically, aside from the attenuation differences at the first hump in the
> stop band, and transition band width, what other characteristics (trade
> offs) are to considered?
Filter lengths.
The filters designed using high attenuation windows like the
Blackman window, tend to be longer than the low-attenuation
windows for the same transition bandwidth.
Rune
Reply by Jerry Avins●September 15, 20052005-09-15
Mook Johnson wrote:
> Wen inplemening a FIR filter, what considerations are given when choosing
> between, rectangular, Bertlet, Hanning, Hamming, Blackman, kaiser, etc
> windows for the coefficients?
>
> Basically, aside from the attenuation differences at the first hump in the
> stop band, and transition band width, what other characteristics (trade
> offs) are to considered?
"Ringing" in the passband, for one. Other humps in the stop band, for
another. (Compare Hamming to von Hann.)
Jerry
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Reply by Mook Johnson●September 15, 20052005-09-15
Wen inplemening a FIR filter, what considerations are given when choosing
between, rectangular, Bertlet, Hanning, Hamming, Blackman, kaiser, etc
windows for the coefficients?
Basically, aside from the attenuation differences at the first hump in the
stop band, and transition band width, what other characteristics (trade
offs) are to considered?
thanks