Implementation and Design
IIR filters may be implemented as either analog or digital filters. In digital IIR filters, the output feedback is immediately apparent in the equations defining the output. Note that unlike FIR filters, in designing IIR filters it is necessary to carefully consider the "time zero" case in which the outputs of the filter have not yet been clearly defined.
Design of digital IIR filters is heavily dependent on that of their analog counterparts because there are plenty of resources, works and straightforward design methods concerning analog feedback filter design while there are hardly any for digital IIR filters. As a result, usually, when a digital IIR filter is going to be implemented, an analog filter (e.g. Chebyshev filter, Butterworth filter, Elliptic filter) is first designed and then is converted to a digital filter by applying discretization techniques such as Bilinear transform or Impulse invariance.
Examples of IIR filters include the Chebyshev filter, Butterworth filter, and the Bessel filter.
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