A Simple Ladder Realization of Maximally Flat Allpass Fractional Delay Filters

This brief proposes a new ladder structure for the Thiran fractional delay filter (i.e., maximally flat allpass fractional delay filter given by the Thiran approximation). The proposed ladder structure is based on a continued fraction representation. Although there exists a similar approach that was proposed by Tassart and Depalle, their structure is not realizable because of delay-free loops. On the other hand, we show that the proposed method avoids generating delay-free loops and thus successfully yields a realizable ladder structure for the Thiran fractional delay filter in a very simple form.

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