FIR filter design function

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Hi!

If I design filters, what gnuradio module do I prefer:

  • optfir
  • gr.firdes
    ?

It seems to me that you use gr.firdes in newer code, but optfir allows
me to specify more filter parameters.

Thanks for your help
Dominik

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Dominik A. wrote:

Hi!

If I design filters, what gnuradio module do I prefer:

  • optfir
  • gr.firdes
    ?

It seems to me that you use gr.firdes in newer code, but optfir allows
me to specify more filter parameters.

firdes creates windowed filters, and is always guaranteed to give you a
working filter. optfir uses the Parks-McClellan algorithm, and can
produce better filters. However, if you ask too much of it, it will
fail, since the algorithm is not guaranteed to converge.

Matt