John N. Power wrote:
> I think I made a mistake in the normalization of this formula. It
> should be y(n) = (1 - alpha) * x(n) + alpha * y(n-1)

Yes this correctly models a simple R/C filter, although it's generally not
the way you'd want to implement such a filter on a PIC.


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