Assignment 6 -Digital Signal Processing

March 12, 2016

1. Consider the cascade of two causal LTI systems: h1 [n] = [n] + [n 1] and h2 [n] = n [n],
|| < 1. Determine the frequency response H(ej ) of the overall system. For what values of , and
will |H(ej )| = K, where K is a real constant?
2. An FIR filter of length 5 is defined by a symmetric impulse response i.e, h[n] = h[4 n], 0 n 4.
Let the input to this filter be a sum of three cosine sequences of angular frequencies: 0.3 rad/samples,
0.5 rad/samples, and 0.8 rad/samples,respectively. Determine the impulse response coefficients so
that the filter blocks only the mid frequency component of the input.
3. Check the stability of each of the following causal IIR transfer functions. It they are not stable,
find a stable transfer function with an identical magnitude function. Are there any other transfer
functions having the same magnitude response as those shown below?
z 3 + 3z 2 + 2z + 7
(2z + 3)(z 2 + 0.5z + 0.8)
4z 3 2z 2 + 5z 6
(b) H2 (z) =
(1.5z 2 + 3z 5)(z 2 0.3z + 0.7)
(a) H1 (z) =

4. A length-13 Type 1 real-coefficient FIR filter has the following zeros: z1 = 0.8, z2 = j, z3 =
2 j2, z4 = 0.5 + j0.3
(a) Determine the locations of the remaining zeros
(b) What is the transfer function H1 (z) of the filter?
5. A length-13 Type 3 real-coefficient FIR filter has the following zeros: z1 = 0.1 j0.599, z2 = 0.3 +
j0.4, z3 = 2.
(a) Determine the locations of the remaining zeros
(b) What is the transfer function H3 (z) of the filter?
6. Let the first five impulse response samples of a causal linear-phase FIR filter be given by h[0] =
a, h[1] = b, h[2] = c, h[3] = d, and h[4] = e. Determine the remaining impulse response samples
of the transfer function of lowest order for each type of linear- phase filter.
7. Let H1 (z), H2 (z), H3 (z), and H4 (z) be, respectively, Type 1, Type 2, Type 3, and Type 4 linear-phase
FIR filters. Are the following filters composed of a cascade of the above filters linear phase?If they
are, what are their types?
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(a) Ga (z) = H1 (z)H1 (z),

(d) Gd (z) = H1 (z)H4 (z),

(g) Gg (z) = H4 (z)H4 (z),

(b) Gb (z) = H1 (z)H2 (z),

(e) Ge (z) = H2 (z)H2 (z),

(h) Gh (z) = H2 (z)H3 (z),

(c) Gc (z) = H1 (z)H3 (z),

(f) Gf (z) = H3 (z)H3 (z),

(i) Gi (z) = H3 (z)H4 (z),

8. Consider a linear-phase FIR transfer function given by H(z) = F1 (z)F2 (z). Determine the factor
F2 (z) of lowest order for each of the following choices for F1 (z) :
(a) F1 (z) = 2.1 3.5z 1 + 4.2z 2 ,
(b) F1 (z) = 1.4 + 5.2z 1 2.2z 2 + 3.3z 3 .
9. Realize the FIR transfer function
H(z) = (1 0.6z 1 )6 = 1 3.6z 1 + 5.4z 2 4.32z 3 + 1.944z 4 0.4666z 5 + 0.0467z 6
in the following forms : (a) two different direct forms, (b) cascade of six first-order sections, (c)
cascade of three second-order sections, (d)cascade of two third-order sections, and (e) cascade of two
second-order sections and two first-order sections.
Compare the computational complexity of each of the above realizations.
10. Consider a length-10 FIR transfer function given by
H(z) = h[0] + h[1]z 1 + h[2]z 2 + h[3]z 3 + h[4]z 4 + h[5]z 5 + h[6]z 6 + h[7]z 7 + h[8]z 8 + h[9]z 9
(a) Develop a four branch polyphase realization of H(z) in the form of Figure 1(a), below, and
determine the expressions for the polyphase transfer functions E0 (z), E1 (z), E2 (z) and E3 (z).
(b) From this realization, develop a canonic four-branch polyphase realization.

Figure 1: Polyphase realization of FIR transfer function