Raouf AmraneYoucef BrikSamir ZeghlacheMohamed LadjalDjamel Chicouche2023-06-192023-06-192020http://dspace.univ-msila.dz:8080//xmlui/handle/123456789/39640The cascaded integrator comb (CIC) filters are characterized by coefficient less and reduced hardware requirement, which make them an economical finite impulse response (FIR) class in many signal processing applications. They consist of an integrator section working at the high sampling rate and a comb section working at the low sampling rate. However, they don’t have well defined frequency response. To remedy this problem, several structures have been proposed but the performance is still unsatisfactory. Thence, this paper deals with the improvement of the CIC filter characteristics by optimizing its sampling rate. This solution increases the performance characteristics of CIC filters by improving the stopband attenuation and ripple as well as the passband droop. Also, this paper presents a comparison of the proposed method with some other existing structures such as the conventional CIC, the sharpened CIC, and the modified sharpened CIC filters, which has proven the effectiveness of the proposed method.CIC filter, FIR, frequency response, optimization, sampling rate, filter sharpeningArticle