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This book presents the basic concepts and tools associated with the field of filters. It deals with both continuous-time and discrete-time filters and systems without excessive mathematics. The author starts to explain the basic theory and then he deals with the characteristic of specific filters. Chapter 0 gives some mathematical tools necessary for systems analysis, such as the classical definition of differentiation, integration and the properties of complex numbers. Chapter 1 is concerned with Fourier series and Fourier and Laplace transforms. Chapter 2 introduces many fundamental concepts related to linear, time-invariant systems in both the time domain and the frequency domain. In chapter 3, the author develops the fundamentals of analog filter design. The most important filter type comes up for discussion. Also the problems of finding appropriate transfer functions are examined. The magnitude-selective filters of Butterworth, Chebyshev and Caurer and the group delay Bessel filters are discussed in detail. Basic frequency transformations are described: low- pass to low-pass, low-pass to high-pass, low-pass to bandpass and low- pass to band-reject (or bandstop). Digital filters are discussed in chapters 4 to 9. Chapters 4, 5 and 6 present the background material for digital filters and discrete systems, such as discretisation and reconstruction of continuous signals, sampling theorems, \(z\)-transforms and inverse \(z\)-transforms and inverse \(z\)-transforms, block diagrams, transfer functions and frequency responses, stability. The illustrations in these chapters help considerably in understanding the material. The short chapter 7 gives continuous-time system versus discrete-time systems and system structures: parallel and cascade forms. Chapter 8 contains a description of the Infinite Impulse Response System (IIR) and the Finite Impulse Response System (FIR). The most important synthesis techniques for digital filters is the subject of chapter 9. The design of FIR filters is based on discrete Fourier transform and on using window functions: rectangular, triangular, Hamming-Hanning window, Blackman window and Kaiser window. To derive a discrete-time IIR filter the author applies a bilinear transformation on a continuous-time design. Also, attention is paid on impulse and step invariance design methods. Chapter 10 contains the references, computer programs and the index. A problem set appears at the end of each chapter. This book is intended to serve as a text for a first course in analog and digital linear filter analysis and design. It may be readily understood by a reader who has had a first course in circuit theory and it is written in a way suitable for self-study.