Explicit formulas for lattice wave digital filters

Explicit formulas are derived for designing lattice wave digital filters of the most common filter types, for Butterworth, Chebyshev, inverse Chebyshev, and Cauer parameter (elliptic) filter responses. Using these formulas a direct top down design method is obtained and most of the practical design problems can be solved without special knowledge of filter synthesis methods. Since the formulas are simple enough also in the case of elliptic filters, the design process is sufficiently simple to serve as basis in the first part (filter design from specs to algorithm) of silicon compilers or applied to high level programmable digital signal processors.