Discrete Varying Lowpass

Discrete Butterworth filter with varying coefficients

  • Library:
  • Control System Toolbox / Linear Parameter Varying


The block implements the Tustin discretization of a continuous-time Nth-order Butterworth filter. The result is a digital filter with unit DC gain and varying cutoff frequency.

Use this block and the other blocks in the Linear Parameter Varying library to implement common control elements with variable parameters or coefficients. For more information, see Model Gain-Scheduled Control Systems in Simulink.



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Lowpass filter input signal.

Continuous-time value of the cutoff frequency, specified in rad/s.


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Lowpass filter output signal.


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Lowpass filter order, specified as a positive integer.

Pre-warping frequency, specified as a positive scalar. Discretization of the continuous-time Butterworth filter can shift the cutoff frequency when it is close to the Nyquist frequency. To ensure that the analog and digital filters have matching frequency response near a particular frequency w0, set this parameter to w0. The default value w0 = 0 corresponds to the bilinear (Tustin) transformation without pre-warp:


where Ts is the block sample time, specified with the Sample time Ts parameter.

Block sample time, specified as a positive scalar. This block does not support inherited sample time, because it requires a specified sample time to compute the discretization of the Butterworth filter.

Extended Capabilities

C/C++ Code Generation

Introduced in R2017b