Low‐complexity technique to get arbitrary variation in the bandwidth of a digital FIR filter
Nisha Haridas, Elizabeth Elias · IET Signal Processing · 2016
A digital filter is an essential structure in present day electronic devices. There is a variety of applications which demands tunability of digital filters in terms of bandwidth. It is desirable to have simple design process and minimum possible overhead in hardware implementation. A set of very low order subfilters derived from Farrow structure is proposed to function as a sample rate converter on the input signal. A fixed bandwidth low pass filter is placed in between these interpolator structures, resulting in a continuously variable bandwidth filter (CVF). This hardware efficient CVF architecture helps to achieve the tunability without altering the coefficients and the underlying structure. This model obtains a continuous variation in bandwidth employing a single sample rate change factor. Very low complexity and easy tunability of this technique are highly motivating factors to adopt CVF in various real‐world applications.