A case study related to the design the analog lowpass filter using a set of
orthogonal Jacobi polynomials, having four parameters to vary, is
considered. The Jacobi polynomial has been modified in order to be used as
a filter approximating function. The obtained magnitude response is more
general than the response of the classical ultra-spherical filter, due to
one additional parameter available in orthogonal Jacobi polynomials. This
additional parameter may be used to obtain a magnitude response having
either smaller passband ripple, smaller group delay variation or sharper
cutoff slope. Two methods for transfer function approximation are
investigated: the first method is based on the known shifted Jacobi
polynomial, and the second method is based on the proposed modification of
Jacobi polynomials. The shifted Jacobi polynomials are suitable only for
odd degree transfer function. However, the proposed modified Jacobi
polynomial filter function is more general but not orthogonal. It is
transformed into orthogonal polynomial when orders are equal and then
includes the Chebyshev filter of the first kind, the Chebyshev filter of
the second kind, the Legendre filter, Gegenbauer (ultraspherical) filter
and many other filters, as its special cases.