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Example

It is easy to classify completely all first-order FIR filters:

$\displaystyle H(z) = 1 + h_1 z^{-1}
$

where we have normalized $ h_0$ to 1 for simplicity. We have a single zero at $ z=-h_1$ . If $ \left\vert h_1\right\vert< 1$ , the filter is minimum phase. If $ \left\vert h_1\right\vert>1$ , it is maximum phase. Note that the minimum-phase case is the one in which the impulse response $ [1,h_1,0,\ldots]$ decays instead of grows. It can be shown that this is a general property of minimum-phase sequences, as elaborated in the next section.


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``Introduction to Digital Filters with Audio Applications'', by Julius O. Smith III, (September 2007 Edition)
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