LTPDA Toolbox™

IIR Filters

Infinite Impulse Response filters are those filters present a non-zero infinite length response when excited with a very brief (ideally an infinite peak) input signal. A linear causal IIR filter can be described by the following difference equation

This operation describe a recursive system, i.e. a system that depends on current and past samples of the input x[n], but also on the output data stream y[n].

Creating a IIR filter in the LTPDA

The LTPDA Toolbox allows the implementation of IIR filters by means of the miir class.

Creating from a plist

The following example creates an order 1 highpass filter with high frequency gain 2. Filter is designed for 10 Hz sampled data and has a cut-off frequency of 0.2 Hz.

    
    pl = plist('type', 'highpass', ...
      'order', 1,         ...
      'gain',  2.0,       ...
      'fs',    10,        ...
      'fc',    0.2);
    f = miir(pl)

Creating from a pzmodel

IIR filters can also be created from a pzmodel .

Creating from a difference equation

Alternatively, the filter can be defined in terms of two vectors specifying the coefficients of the filter and the sampling frequency. The following example creates a IIR filter with sampling frequency 1 Hz and the following recursive equation:

    
    a = [0.5 -0.01];
    b = [1 0.1];
    fs = 1;
    f = miir(a,b,fs)

Notice that the convetion used in this function is the one described in the Digital filters classification section

Importing an existing model

The miir constructor also accepts as an input existing models in different formats:

LISO files:

      f = miir('foo_iir.fil')

XML files:

    f = miir('foo_iir.xml')

MAT files:

      f = miir('foo_iir.mat')

From repository:

      f = miir(plist('hostname', 'localhost', 'database', 'ltpda', 'ID', []))

Digital Filtering

FIR Filters