hi Greg,

yes but taking circuit depth to mean circuit path and assumptively related
to window size, a smaller window almost certainly equals more ripple
distortion

-ez

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 3:57 PM Greg Maxwell <gmaxw...@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 7:46 PM Russell Wedelich <wedel...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Respectively Eric, I think you may be confusing two different use cases
>> for windows. Your recent reference is referring to constructing FIR filters
>> via the Windowing method of ideal brickwall filters. This is different from
>> a frequency domain convolution implementation of an FIR filter (which may
>> or may not explicitly apply a smooth window) which as far as I can tell is
>> the origin of this part of the discussion.
>>
>
> And for the convolution implementation of a FIR filter if you were to
> compare _correct_ implementations of each approach which had adequate(*)
> internal precision relative to the output, the results would be _bit
> identical_.
>
> (*) In practice, digital implementations of *both* time domain FIR and
> convolution typically lack enough internal precision such that their output
> is exact, and as a result they won't be bit identical. Though I wouldn't be
> surprised if, for a given internal precision, a WOLA implementation using
> FFTs wasn't *more* faithful to a infinite precision FIR than the same FIR
> implemented with limited precision, due to the smaller circuit depth for
> the frequency domain approach.
>
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