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Digital biquad filter

What is digital biquad filter? A clear definition from the audio engineering and recording section of our glossary, with 12 related terms, tools to try and further reading.

Definition of Digital biquad filter

In signal processing, a digital biquad filter is a second order recursive linear filter, containing two poles and two zeros, which implements the analog biquad filter topology in the digital domain. Biquad is an abbreviation of biquadratic, which refers to the fact that in the Z domain, its transfer function is the ratio of two quadratic functions:

{\displaystyle \ H(z)={\frac {b_{0}+b_{1}z^{-1}+b_{2}z^{-2}}{a_{0}+a_{1}z^{-1}+a_{2}z^{-2}}}}

The coefficients are often normalized such that a0 = 1:

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What is Digital biquad filter?

In signal processing, a digital biquad filter is a second order recursive linear filter, containing two poles and two zeros, which implements the analog biquad filter topology in the digital domain.

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