EE 3512 Signals Dr.

Obeid

Spring 2011

Homework Project 5

Due any time before final exam

This final assignment will explore how the choice of an anti-aliasing filter can impact the quality of a sampled signal. Consider the following analog square wave and its associated Fourier Transform:
x(t) 1 20 0 0.5
dB

|X(f)|

20 40 60 80

0.5

1 0

4 time (s)

10

100 0

10

20 freq (Hz)

30

40

50

Suppose you want to sample the square wave at Fs = 50Hz. In order to do so, you will need an anti-aliasing filter. In the ideal case, you would build a low pass filter that perfectly passes everything below 25Hz and completely rejects everything beyond that. However ideal filters are never possible, and you will have to settle for a filter that rolls off at some finite rate like 20 or 40 dB/decade. Design an anti-aliasing filter that keeps as many of the square waves harmonics as possible while rejecting the signal as much as possible above 25Hz. Create any sort of filter you think is appropriate but limit yourself to five poles. You should describe your filter (be sure to include a Bode plot) and the reason why you designed it the way you did. Your writeup should also include a plot of what x(t) will look like when it is sampled at 50Hz after being bandlimited by your anti-aliasing filter. Although its not required, you should certainly feel free to present multiple anti-aliasing filters and show what the resulting x[n] looks like in each case. For those students who find this material particularly interesting, this could be a neat opportunity to explore how filtering affects the quality of the resulting signal. Good luck!