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Digital vs. Analog Filters Explained

This document compares digital and analog filters. Digital filters operate on digital signal samples using linear difference equations and are implemented using digital logic components like adders and delays. Analog filters work directly on analog signals using linear differential equations and are implemented using electrical components like resistors, capacitors and inductors. For both types of filters, the transfer function coefficients are designed to achieve the desired frequency response, and the filters must be stable and causal, with poles inside the unit circle for digital filters and in the left half of the s-plane for analog filters.

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Digital vs. Analog Filters Explained

This document compares digital and analog filters. Digital filters operate on digital signal samples using linear difference equations and are implemented using digital logic components like adders and delays. Analog filters work directly on analog signals using linear differential equations and are implemented using electrical components like resistors, capacitors and inductors. For both types of filters, the transfer function coefficients are designed to achieve the desired frequency response, and the filters must be stable and causal, with poles inside the unit circle for digital filters and in the left half of the s-plane for analog filters.

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1. It operates on the digital samples of the signals.

2. These kinds of filters are defined using linear difference equations.


3. While implementing the digital filters in hardware or software (for simulation), we need
adders, subtractors, delays, etc which are classified under digital logic components.
4. In this filter, the filter coefficients are designed to meet the desired or expected frequency
response.
5. Mathematically the transfer function H(z) is required to be a rational function of z, where
the coefficients of z are real to meet the stability and causality requirement.
6. In order to be stable and causal, the poles of the transfer function should lie inside the unit
circle in z-plane.

Analog Filters:
1. Unlike digital, analog filters works on analog signals or the so called actual signals.
2. It is defined by linear differential equations.
3. While implementing the analog filters in hardware or software
simulation, electricalcomponents like resistors, capacitors and inductors are used.
4. To achieve the required frequency response, approximation problem is solved.
5. To be stable and causal, the transfer function H(s) must be a rational function of s, whose
coefficients are real.
6. For stability and causality, the poles should lie on the left half of s-plan

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