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The goal of this project is to create a GUI based tool in Python / Qt to analyse, design and synthesize discrete time filters.
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+pyFDA
-Python Filter Design Analysis Tool
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- +Education: There is a very limited choice of user-friendly, license-free tools available to teach the influence of different filter design methods and specifications on time and frequency behaviour. It should be possible to run the tool without severe limitations also with the limited resolution of a beamer. +
- +Show-off: Demonstrate that Python is a potent tool for digital signal processing applications as well. The interfaces for textual filter design routines are a nightmare: linear vs. logarithmic specs, frequencies normalized w.r.t. to sampling or Nyquist frequency, -3 dB vs. -6 dB vs. band-edge frequencies ... (This is due to the different backgrounds and the history of filter design algorithms and not Python-specific.) +
- +Fixpoint filter design for uCs: Recursive filters have become a niche for experts. Convenient design and simulation support (round-off noise, stability under different quantization options and topologies) could attract more designers to these filters that are easier on hardware resources and much more suitable e.g. for uCs. +
- +Fixpoint filter design for FPGAs: Especially on low-budget FPGAs, multipliers are rare. However, there are no good tools for designing and analyzing filters requiring a limited number of multipliers (or none at all) like CIC-, LDI- or Sigma-Delta based designs. +
- +HDL filter implementation: Implementing a fixpoint filter in VHDL / Verilog without errors requires some experience, verifying the correct performance in a digital design environment with very limited frequency domain simulation options is even harder. The Python module myHDL can automate both design and verification. +
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++The following features are currently implemented:
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+Filter design
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- +Design methods from scipy.signal: Equiripple, Firwin, Butterworth, Elliptic, Chebychev 1 and Chebychev 2 +
- +Remember all specifications when changing filter design methods +
- +Fine-tune manually the filter order and corner frequencies calculated by minimum order algorithms +
- +Compare filter designs for a given set of specifications and different design methods +
- +Filter coefficients and poles / zeroes can be displayed, edited and quantized +
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- only widgets needed for the currently selected design method are visible +
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- specify frequencies as absolute values or normalized to sampling or Nyquist frequency +
- specify ripple and attenuations in dB, as voltage or as power ratios +
- enter expressions like exp(-pi/4 * 1j) with the help of the library simpleeval (included in source files) +
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- Magnitude response (lin / power / log) with optional display of specification bands, phase and an inset plot +
- Phase response (wrapped / unwrapped) +
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- Pole / Zero plot +
- Impulse response and step response (lin / log) +
- 3D-Plots (|H(f)|, mesh, surface, contour) with optional pole / zero display +
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+Modular architecture, facilitating the implementation of new filter design and analysis methods
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- Filter design files not only contain the actual algorithm but also dictionaries specifying which parameters and standard widgets have to be displayed in the GUI. +
- Special widgets needed by design methods (e.g. for choosing the window type in Firwin) are included in the filter design file, not in the main program +
- Filter design files can be added and edited without changing or even restarting the program +
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- Save and load filter designs in pickled and in numpy's NPZ-format +
- Export coefficients and poles/zeros as comma-separated values (CSV), in numpy's NPZ-format, in Excel (R) or in Matlab (R) workspace format +
+ - +Display help files (own / Python docstrings) as rich text +
- +Runs under Python 2.7 and Python 3.4 +
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+Release 0.1 (target: end of May June 2015)
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+The following features are still missing for the first release.
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+Release 0.2 (target: end of 2015) - Help is very welcome!
-The goal of this project is to create a GUI based tool to analyse and design discrete time filters implemented in Python and Qt. The following goals of this FOSS project have been reached or will be in the near future:
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- Export of VHDL / Verilog netlists for basic filter topologies +
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- Filter design files can simply be added to the filter_design subdirectory without changes to the program and without restarting -
- Comfortable saving and loading of filter designs -
- Export of filter coefficients and poles / zeros as CSV and in Matlab (R) workspace format +
- Display coefficients / poles and zeros with fewer digits while keeping full precision internally +
- Group multiple poles / zeros +
- Load coefficients / poles and zeros in various formats
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- Store multiple designs in one filter dict +
- Compare multiple designs in plots +
+ - Documentation using Sphinx +
Plans for the not-so near future include:
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- Multiplier-free filter designs (CIC, GCIC, SigmaDelta-Filters, ...) +
- Better help files and messages +
- Add a tracking cursor +
- Graphical modification of poles / zeros +
- Export of filter properties as PDF / HTML files +
- Show error messages and warnings in the GUI +
- Design, analysis and export of filters as second-order sections +
- Multiplier-free filter designs (CIC, GCIC, LDI, SigmaDelta-Filters, ...)
- Export of Python filter objects
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- Fixpoint filter sythesis and export using the myHDL module.
And maybe the future will bring
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- test filters in real-time with a audio stream
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