Design and applications of uniform digital bandpass filter banks

A digital bandpass filter-bank for demodulating a wideband frequency multiplexed signal into a specified number of uniform narrow band channel outputs, and conversely for modulating a set of channel inputs into a composite frequency multiplexed signal, can be realized efficiently by the combination of a suitable transform processor and a weighting network. The design and implementation of these filter-banks for different types of input-ouput configurations such as complex signals at both the wideband and narrow band sides, real signal at the wideband side and complex signals at the narrow band side, and real signals at both ends are discussed. Applications in telecommunications (TDM-FDM translators), speech processing (phase vocoders), signal analysis and detection (spectrum analyzers) and other signal processing systems are also described.