HIGHPASS

Purpose:

Designs an FIR linear phase highpass filter.

Syntax:

HIGHPASS(order, rate, fc, ripple, attn, fstop)

order

-

Optional. An integer, the filter length. If not specified, the filter order is automatically estimated.

rate

-

A real, the sample rate of the filter in Hertz.

fc

-

A real, the cutoff frequency in Hertz.

ripple

-

Optional. A real, the passband ripple in dB. Defaults to 3 dB.

attn

-

Optional. A real, the stopband attenuation in dB. Defaults to 40 dB.

fstop

-

Optional. A real, the stopband  frequency in Hertz. Defaults to fc - 0.05 * rate

Returns:

A series, the highpass filter coefficients. The filter coefficients are identical to the impulse response of the FIR filter.

Example:

W1: highpass(1000.0,100.0)

 

W1 creates an FIR  highpass filter with a sample rate of 1000 Hz and a cutoff frequency of 100 Hz. The stopband frequency defaults to 50 Hz. The resulting filter is 25 samples long with a passband ripple of 1.8 dB and a stopband attenuation of 52 dB.

 

Example:

W1: highpass(1000.0, 100.0, 3.0, 50.0, 70.0)

W2: 20*log10(filtmag(W1, {1}, 1024))

 

Remez High Pass FIR Filter

Creates a similar filter except the desired stopband attenuation is set to 50 dB and the stopband frequency is increased to 70 Hz. The resulting filter contains 45 samples with a passband ripple of 2.27 dB and the stopband attenuation increases to 60 dB. W2 displays the frequency response of the filter.

Example:

W1: highpass(1000.0, 100.0, 3.0, 50.0, 70.0)

W2: gsin(1000, 1/1000, 3) + gsin(1000, 1/1000, 250)

W3: firfilterF(W2, W1)

 

Remez High Pass FIR Filter

 

Creates the same FIR highpass filter as the previous example. W2 contains a series with two sinusoids and W3 applies the filter to recover the higher frequency sine wave.

Remarks:

 

The HIGHPASS filter specifications are depicted as follows:

 

Remez High Pass FIR Filter Specification

 

HIGHPASS uses the Remez Exchange algorithm to compute the FIR filter coefficients. The Remez Exchange algorithm will attempt to meet or exceed the filter specifications with a linear phase FIR filter.

 

The filter order refers to the number of resulting filter coefficients, though the order will always be odd for a highpass filter.

 

The highpass edges must lie between 0.0 and 0.5 * rate (the Nyquist frequency). Overlapping band edges are not permitted.

 

See KWHPASS to design a linear phase FIR highpass filter with a flat passband using the Kaiser Window method.

 

See BESSEL, BUTTERWORTH, CHEBY1, CHEBY2 and ELLIPTIC to design IIR filters using the Bilinear Transform method.

 

HIGHPASS requires the DADiSP/Filters Module.

See Also:

BANDPASS

BANDSTOP

CONV

DADiSP/Filters

FFT

FILTEQ

KWHPASS

LOWPASS

RATE

ZHPFILT

References:

Oppenheim and Schafer

Digital Signal Processing

Prentice Hall, 1975

 

Digital Signal Processing Committee

Programs for Digital Signal Processing

I.E.E.E. Press, 1979