Efficient Design of Low Pass FIR Filter by Hamming, Blackman and Rectangular Window Techniques

Abstract: Digital filtering plays a significant role in the world of technology. This paper deals with the design of finite impulse response digital filter using window techniques. Here various windows are compared and demonstration of the best window is done, which is the one with minimum side lobes. This is hence the major objective of filtering operation. The experimental results show that the FIR filters designed in this paper are effective for filtering operation. Through this paper the intricacies of the window methods are explained in a simple and a subtle manner.

Keywords: blackman window, hamming window, rectangular window, FIR filter and MATLAB.