Pulse Shaping Filter (Obsolete)

(Removed) Design pulse shaping filter

Compatibility

Note

The Pulse Shaping Filter block has been removed from DSP System Toolbox™ block library. Existing instances of the Pulse Shaping Filter block will continue to operate. For new models, use the Raised Cosine Receive Filter (Communications Toolbox) and Raised Cosine Transmit Filter (Communications Toolbox) blocks from the Communications Toolbox™ library. These blocks replace the functionality of Pulse Shaping Filter block, when Filter Type is set to Decimator and Interpolator, respectively.

Library

Filtering / Filter Designs

dspfdesign

Description

This block brings the filter design capabilities of the filterBuilder function to the Simulink^® environment.

Dialog Box

See Pulse-shaping Filter Design —Main Pane for more information about the parameters of this block. The Data Types and Code panes are not available for blocks in the DSP System Toolbox Filter Designs library.

Parameters of this block that do not change filter order or structure are tunable.

View filter response

This button opens the Filter Visualization Tool (FVTool) from the Signal Processing Toolbox™ product. You can use the tool to display:

Magnitude response, phase response, and group delay in the frequency domain.
Impulse response and step response in the time domain.
Pole-zero information.

The tool also helps you evaluate filter performance by providing information about filter order, stability, and phase linearity. For more information on FVTool, see the Signal Processing Toolbox documentation.

Filter Specifications

In this group, you specify the shape and length of the filter.

Pulse shape

Select the shape of the impulse response from the following options:

Raised Cosine
Square Root Raised Cosine
Gaussian

Order mode

This specification is only available for raised cosine and square root raised cosine filters. For these filters, select one of the following options:

Minimum— This option will result in the minimum-length filter satisfying the user-specified Frequency specifications.
Specify order—This option allows the user to construct a raised cosine or square root cosine filter of a specified order by entering an even number in the Order input box. The length of the impulse response will be Order+1.
Specify symbols—This option enables the user to specify the length of the impulse response in an alternative manner. If Specify symbols is chosen, the Order input box changes to the Number of symbols input box.

Samples per symbol

Specify the oversampling factor. Increasing the oversampling factor guards against aliasing and improves the FIR filter approximation to the ideal frequency response. If Order is specified in Number of symbols, the filter length will be Number of symbols*Samples per symbol+1. The product Number of symbols*Samples per symbol must be an even number.

If a Gaussian filter is specified, the filter length must be specified in Number of symbols and Samples per symbol. The product Number of symbols*Samples per symbol must be an even number. The filter length will be Number of symbols*Samples per symbol+1.

Frequency specifications

In this group, you specify the frequency response of the filter. For raised cosine and square root raised cosine filters, the frequency specifications include:

Rolloff factor: The rolloff factor takes values in the range [0,1]. The smaller the rolloff factor, the steeper the transition in the stopband.
Frequency units: The frequency units are normalized by default. If you specify units other than normalized, the block assumes that you wish to specify an input sampling frequency, and enables this input box. The choice of frequency units are: Normalized (0 to 1), Hz, kHz, MHz, GHz

For a Gaussian pulse shape, the available frequency specifications are:

Bandwidth-time product: This option allows the user to specify the width of the Gaussian filter. Note that this is independent of the length of the filter. The bandwidth-time product (BT) must be a positive real number. Smaller values of the bandwidth-time product result in larger pulse widths in time and steeper stopband transitions in the frequency response.
Frequency units: The frequency units are normalized by default. If you specify units other than normalized, the block assumes that you wish to specify an input sampling frequency, and enables this input box. The choice of frequency units are: Normalized (0 to 1), Hz, kHz, MHz, GHz

Magnitude specifications

If the Order mode is specified as minimum, the magnitude units may be selected from:

dB — Specify the magnitude in decibels (default).
Linear — Specify the magnitude in linear units.

Algorithm

The only design method available for FIR pulse-shaping filters is the window method.

Filter Implementation

Structure

For the filter specifications and design method you select, this parameter lists the filter structures available to implement your filter. FIR filters use direct-form structure.

Use basic elements to enable filter customization

Select this check box to implement the filter as a subsystem of basic Simulink blocks. Clear the check box to implement the filter as a high-level subsystem. By default, this check box is cleared.

The high-level implementation provides better compatibility across various filter structures, especially filters that would contain algebraic loops when constructed using basic elements. On the other hand, using basic elements enables the following optimization parameters:

Optimize for zero gains — Terminate chains that contain Gain blocks with a gain of zero.
Optimize for unit gains — Remove Gain blocks that scale by a factor of one.
Optimize for delay chains — Substitute delay chains made up of n unit delays with a single delay by n.
Optimize for negative gains — Use subtraction in Sum blocks instead of negative gains in Gain blocks.

Optimize for unit-scale values

Select this check box to scale unit gains between sections in SOS filters. This parameter is available only for SOS filters.

Input processing

Specify how the block should process the input. The available options may vary depending on he settings of the Filter Structure and Use basic elements for filter customization parameters. You can set this parameter to one of the following options:

Columns as channels (frame based) — When you select this option, the block treats each column of the input as a separate channel.
Elements as channels (sample based) — When you select this option, the block treats each element of the input as a separate channel.

Rate options

When the Filter type parameter specifies a multirate filter, select the rate processing rule for the block from following options:

Enforce single-rate processing — When you select this option, the block maintains the sample rate of the input.
Allow multirate processing — When you select this option, the block adjusts the rate at the output to accommodate an increased or reduced number of samples. To select this option, you must set the Input processing parameter to Elements as channels (sample based).

Use symbolic names for coefficients

Select this check box to enable the specification of coefficients using MATLAB^® variables. The available coefficient names differ depending on the filter structure. Using symbolic names allows tuning of filter coefficients in generated code. By default, this check box is cleared.

Supported Data Types

Port	Supported Data Types
Input	Double-precision floating point Single-precision floating point
Output	Double-precision floating point Single-precision floating point

Version History

Introduced in R2009b