DocumentCode
1102365
Title
The noise gain of a digital butterworth ladder filter
Author
Bretherton, Chris ; Steinhardt, Allan
Author_Institution
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
Volume
31
Issue
6
fYear
1983
fDate
12/1/1983 12:00:00 AM
Firstpage
1576
Lastpage
1577
Abstract
We show that any digital Butterworth ladder filter has a noise gain of N/2, where N is the filter order. The result is obtained by linking the noise gain to the average time delay of an analog Butterworth filter, which we show to be N/4E.
Keywords
Band pass filters; Delay effects; Digital filters; Fourier transforms; Frequency response; Joining processes; Low pass filters; Nonlinear filters; Passband; Quantization;
fLanguage
English
Journal_Title
Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing, IEEE Transactions on
Publisher
ieee
ISSN
0096-3518
Type
jour
DOI
10.1109/TASSP.1983.1164239
Filename
1164239
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