A new window function for signal spectrum analysis and FIR filter design

A new window function is presented which like the well known Hamming window offers a preferred property for use in signal spectrum analysis: the sum of window coefficients with its shifted version by half of the order (50% overlap) is constant for the overlapped region in the time domain. In high orders, the new window has main-lobe width equal to Hamming window, while featuring 2∼4 dB smaller maximum side-lobe peak. For low orders, the window parameters are modified to have smaller main-lobe width compared to Hamming window, while maintaining smaller maximum side-lobe peak. Our results indicate performance improvement of the proposed window compared to Kaiser and Gaussian windows. A comparison with Dolph-Chebyshev window is also presented. The FIR filters designed by windowing method show the efficiency of the new window.

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