Efficient design and implementation of FIR filter banks with equal passband widths

An approach is presented for efficiently designing and implementing FIR (finite impulse response) filter banks with equal passband bandwidths. The overall bank of L filters is generated from a prototype 2Lth-band filter with the aid of a few additional coefficients and adders. The attractive properties of these filter banks are that the sum of filter outputs is guaranteed to be a pure delay and the passband bandwidths are the same for all the filters.