Impulse invariance
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Impulse Invariance is a technique for designing discrete-time Infinite Impulse Response (IIR) filters from continuous-time filters in which the impulse response of the continuous-time system is sampled to produce the impulse response of the discrete-time system. If the continuous-time system is appropriately band-limited, the frequency response of the discrete-time system will be defined as the continuous-time system's frequency response with linearly-scaled frequency.
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[edit] Discussion
The continuous-time system's impulse response, hc(t), is sampled with sampling period T to produce the discrete-time system's impulse response, h[n].
Thus, the frequency responses of the two systems are related by
If the continuous time filter is appropriately band-limited (ie. Hc(jΩ) = 0 when ), then frequency response of the discrete-time system will be defined as the continuous-time system's frequency response with linearly-scaled frequency.
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[edit] Comparison to the Bilinear Transform
Note that if is not band-limited, aliasing will occur. The Bilinear Transform is an alternative to Impulse Invariance that uses a direct unique mapping from the continuous-time frequency axis to the discrete-time frequency axis. Impulse Invariance, however, uses a linear scale between the frequency axes for the continuous-time and discrete-time systems, , which is not true for the Bilinear Transform.
[edit] Effect on Poles in System Function
If the continuous-time filter has poles at s = sk, the system function can be written in partial fraction expansion as
Thus, using the inverse Laplace transform, the impulse response is
The corresponding discrete-time system's impulse response is then defined as the following
Performing a z-transform on the discrete-time impulse response produces the following discrete-time system function
Thus the poles from the continuous-time system function are translated to poles at z = eskT
[edit] Stability and Causality
Since poles in the continuous-time system at transform to poles in the discrete-time system at z = eskT, if the continuous-time filter is causal and stable, then the discrete-time filter will be causal and stable as well.
[edit] See also
Infinite Impulse Response (IIR)
Continuous Time Filters: Chebyshev Filter, Butterworth Filter, Elliptic Filter
[edit] Sources
Oppenheim, Alan V. and Schafer, Ronald W. with Buck, John R. Discrete-Time Signal Processing. Second Edition. Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1999.
Sahai, Anant. Course Lecture. Electrical Engineering 123: Digital Signal Processing. University of California, Berkeley. 05 April 2007.