It is nearly impossible to design a linearphase IIR transfer function It is always possible to design an FIR transfer function with an exact linear-phase response Consider a causal FIR transfer function H(z) of length N+1, i.e., of order N:
§5.1 Digital Processing of Continuous-Time Signals §5.2 Sampling of Continuous-time Signals §5.3 Effect of Sampling in the Frequency Domain §5.4 Recovery of the Analog Signal §5.6 Sampling of Bandpass Signals §5.7 Analog Lowpass Filter Specifications §5.8 Analog Lowpass Filter Design
The simple filters discussed so far are characterized either by a single passband and/or a single stopband There are applications where filters with multiple passbands and stopbands are required The comb filter is an example of such filters
Later in the course we shall review various methods of designing frequency-selective filters satisfying prescribed specifications We now describe several low-order FIR and IIR digital filters with reasonable selective frequency responses that often are satisfactory in a number of applications