Adept Scientific has announced a new Digital Filters option for FlexPro, the powerful and flexible charting and data analysis application from Weisang GmbH. The new module is designed to help engineers, scientists and measurement technology experts who need to filter multichannel measurements quickly, providing all the tools they need for filter design, filtering and presentation using a simple, sequential process.
The latest IIR and FIR filter design methods are at the core of this new module. FIR filters are popular due to their stability and phase linearity. FlexPro offers the window and FIR equi-ripple methods for designing FIR filters. In addition to highpass, lowpass, bandpass and bandstop filters, the latter method enables the design of any type of multiband filter, and allows the permitted ripple to be set in individual bands.
The Digital Filters option also includes Sawitzky-Golay, Loess and Lowess smoothing filters as well as the CFC (Channel Frequency Class) filter, an important crash test analysis tool to comply with ISO 6487.
Once enabled, the new filter design capabilities are accessed through FlexPro 7's Analysis Wizard, which guides the user through all the steps for designing filters, filtering multiple data sets and presenting results. FlexPro offers immediate visual feedback whenever any change is made to the filter specification. After the design process has been completed, filters can be saved as templates and reused later.
FlexPro's interface places data, which can be imported from just about any source, within a structured, object-oriented project database. This makes it easy to manipulate and to analyse trends and results. Multiple tabbed windows ensure you keep track of every aspect of your data, while FlexPro's comprehensive graphing and data analysis options allow you to view and extract every last piece of useful information, and present the results in a wide variety of high-quality formats.