"bharat pathak" <bharat@arithos.com> wrote in message 
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>
>>So it is "possible," but I think that this is going to yield a much less
>>ideal filter (e.g., in terms of stop-band attenuation) than remez.
>
> Thanks Randy,
>
> In some cases if i need only 50 db attenuation or so. i can use hamming
> window. the advantage is the slowly going down tail in the stop band
> region. Sometimes this is very advantageous in situations like image
> rejection filters, specially in communication applications. I might
> not require 50db attenuation near stop band frequency but the same
> might be required as I approach Fs/2. In such cases it is helpful to
> design filters with trailing response in stop band.
>
> Regards
> Bharat Pathak
>
> Arithos Designs
> www.arithos.com
>

Well, you can use the Remez algorithm still.  It's just that the common 
implementations like P-M and Matlab's remez use constant weights in each 
band.  To get what you want you might simply use Matlab's firpm and make the 
stopband weight a function of frequency - so not constant.  Then the 
stopband can be tailored.

Another trick is to use Dirichlet functions as the kernel instead of cosines 
in a Remez implementation. But you won't likely find a canned implementation 
that will let you do it.  By itself it would yield the same result.  But, if 
you use superimposed triplets of Dirichlets weighted [1/2 1 1/2] as the 
basis set then the decay of the kernel is very rapid.

The only difference between using the von Hann window in a windowing method 
and using the fft of the von Hann window as a basis function in a Remez 
algorithm is that you might have more direct control over the results in the 
latter.

Fred 

>So it is "possible," but I think that this is going to yield a much less
>ideal filter (e.g., in terms of stop-band attenuation) than remez.

Thanks Randy,

In some cases if i need only 50 db attenuation or so. i can use hamming
window. the advantage is the slowly going down tail in the stop band 
region. Sometimes this is very advantageous in situations like image
rejection filters, specially in communication applications. I might
not require 50db attenuation near stop band frequency but the same
might be required as I approach Fs/2. In such cases it is helpful to
design filters with trailing response in stop band.

Regards
Bharat Pathak

Arithos Designs
www.arithos.com

"bharat pathak" <bharat@arithos.com> writes:

> Hello,
>
> So far i have been designing half band filters using remez
> function. Is it possible to design half band fir filter using 
> window (like hamming, hanning, kaiser, blackmanharris etc)
> based design method?

This probably isn't telling you anything, but you can window a sinc
function representing the ideal (1/4)*Fs bandwidth. The frequency-domain
result is the convolution of the rectangular pulse with the window
function transform.

So it is "possible," but I think that this is going to yield a much less
ideal filter (e.g., in terms of stop-band attenuation) than remez.
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On 16 Jan., 14:13, "bharat pathak" <bha...@arithos.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> So far i have been designing half band filters using remez
> function. Is it possible to design half band fir filter using
> window (like hamming, hanning, kaiser, blackmanharris etc)
> based design method?

Sure. Just window the ideal fs/4 sinc-lowpass impulse response:

h[k] = w(k/K) sinc(k/2),

where k = -K, ..., 1, 0, 1, ... , K (for an odd number 2 K + 1 of
coefficients). w(t) is the window function defined on [-1, 1].

Regards,
Andor

Hello,

So far i have been designing half band filters using remez
function. Is it possible to design half band fir filter using 
window (like hamming, hanning, kaiser, blackmanharris etc)
based design method?

Regards
Bharat Pathak

Arithos Designs
www.arithos.com