The stability of the two classes of two-dimensional digital filters defined by
![F1: x_{i+1,j+1} = Q_R[ax_{i+1,j}+bx_{i,j+1}+cx_{i,j}]](/images/tex/10741.gif)
and
![F2: x_{i+1,j+1} = Q_R[ax_{i+1,j}]+Q_R[bx_{i,j+1}]](/images/tex/10742.gif)
is studied. Here

is the rounding operator, and fixed-point arithmetic is used. Sufficient conditions for the stability of

and necessary and sufficient conditions for the stability of

are derived. For the more general case of higher order two-dimensional (2-D) digital filters, sufficient conditions for the nonexistence of separable 2-D limit cycles are derived by extending the results of Claasen et al. [1].