DEPARTMENT OF Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Nagar Yuwak Shikshan Sanstha’s

YESHWANTRAO CHAVAN COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING,

(An autonomous institution affiliated to Rashtrasant Tukdoji Maharaj Nagpur University, Nagpur)

NAGPUR – 441 110 2019-2020

INNOVATIVE ACTIVITY
NAME OF TOPIC: STEPS FOR THE DESIGN OF BUTTERWORTH FILTER USING BLT
METHOD.
Name – Karishma
Gajhbhiye

Roll no-207/C
Faculty :Prof. M.Dorle
Solving Butterworth Filter Transfer Function with Bilinear Transformation technique

Bilinear Transformation is useful when the gains of your filter are constant over certain
bands of frequency, such as in Low Pass Filters, High Pass Filters, and Band Pass Filters. The
BLT method helps to avoid aliasing of the frequency response that you may encounter while
using the Impulse Invariance method to obtain your filter values by mapping one-to-one from
the s- plane to the z-plane. Hence, using this method lowers the sampling rate required
significantly compared to the IIR method.
This technique involves all the steps in the previous section except the last step and a small
change in the second step.
Let us see how with another one of those examples, that’s going to make understanding all
this complex stuff a bit easier.
Problem
Design a Butterworth digital IIR highpass filter using Bilinear Transformation by taking
T=0.1 second, to satisfy the following specifications.

Solution:
1. For a High Pass Filter
=0.6[/latex] =0.7π[/latex] =0.1[/latex] =0.35π[/latex]
For a Low Pass Filter
=0.6
=0.35π[/latex] =0.1[/latex] =0.7π[/latex]
2. Order of the filter

n=1.726
Therefore, the order of the filter will be 2.
3. Now, for the normalized transfer function

where

k=N/2=2/2=1

4. Time for the actual transfer function now and we need the cutoff frequency again

5. This is the little twist that I warned y’all about at the beginning, the last step.
So, for this step, we have to replace
Using the Bilinear Transformation, the transfer function will be

simplifying this very complicated equation, we get

which gives us the transfer function of the High Pass Filter in the ‘z’ domain.