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impinvar
Impulse invariance method for analog-to-digital filter conversion

Syntax
[bz,az] = impinvar(b,a,fs) [bz,az] = impinvar(b,a,fs,tol)

Description
[bz,az] = impinvar(b,a,fs) creates a digital filter with numerator and denominator coefficients bz and az, respectively, whose

impulse response is equal to the impulse response of the analog filter with coefficients b and a, scaled by 1/fs. If you leave out the argument fs, or specify fs as the empty vector [], it takes the default value of 1 Hz.
[bz,az] = impinvar(b,a,fs,tol) uses the tolerance specified by tol to determine whether poles are repeated. A larger

tolerance increases the likelihood that impinvar interprets closely located poles as multiplicities (repeated ones). The default is 0.001, or 0.1% of a pole's magnitude. Note that the accuracy of the pole values is still limited to the accuracy obtainable by the roots function.

Examples
Example 1
Convert an analog lowpass filter to a digital filter using impinvar with a sampling frequency of 10 Hz:

[b,a] = butter(4,0.3,'s'); [bz,az] = impinvar(b,a,10);

Example 2
Illustrate the relationship between analog and digital impulse responses [2].

Note This example requires the impulse function from Control System T oolbox software.

The steps used in this example are: 1. Create an analog Butterworth filter 2. Use impinvar with a sampling frequency Fs of 10 Hz to scale the coefficients by 1/Fs. This compensates for the gain that will be introduced in Step 4 below. 3. Use Control System Toolbox impulse function to plot the continuous-time unit impulse response of an LTI system. 4. Plot the digital impulse response, multiplying the numerator by a constant (Fs) to compensate for the 1/Fs gain introduced in the impulse response of the derived digital filter.
[b,a] = butter(4,0.3,'s'); [bz,az] = impinvar(b,a,10); sys = tf(b,a); impulse(sys); hold on; impz(10*bz,az,[],10);

Zooming the resulting plot shows that the analog and digital impulse responses are the same.

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References
[1] Parks, T.W., and C.S. Burrus, Digital Filter Design, John Wiley & Sons, 1987, pp.206-209. [2] Antoniou, Andreas, Digital Filters , McGraw Hill, Inc, 1993, pp.221-224.

See Also
bilinear | lp2bp | lp2bs | lp2hp | lp2lp

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