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Causal and Noncausal System

(Causality Property)

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Causal and Noncausal System:

A)

Causal systems:

Definition:
A system is said to be causal system if its output depends on present and past inputs only and
not on future inputs.
Examples:
The output of casual system depends on present and past inputs, it means y(n) is a function of
x(n), x(n-1), x(n-2), x(n-3)etc. Some examples of causal systems are given below:
1)

y(n) = x(n) + x(n-2)

2)

y(n) = x(n-1) x(n-3)

3)

y(n) = 7x(n-5)

Significance of causal systems:

Since causal system does not include future input samples; such system is practically
realizable. That mean such system can be implemented practically. Generally all real time
systems are causal systems; because in real time applications only present and past samples are
present.
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Since future samples are not present; causal system is memoryless system.

B)

Anticausal or non-causal system:

Definition:
A system whose present response depends on future values of the inputs is called as a noncausal system.
Examples:
In this case, output y(n) is function of x(n), x(n-1), x(n-2)etc. as well as it is function of x(n+1),
x(n+2), x(n+3), etc. following are some examples of non-causal systems:
1)

Y(n) = x(n) + x(n+1)

2)

Y(n) = 7x(n+2)

3)

Y(n) = x(n) + 9x(n+5)

Significance:
Since non-causal system contains future samples; a non-causal system is practically not
realizable. That means in practical cases it is not possible to implement a non-causal system.
But if the signals are stored in the memory and at a later time they are used by a system
then such signals are treated as advanced or future signal. Because such signals are already
present, before the system has started its operation. In such cases it is possible to implement
a non-causal system.
Some practical examples of non-causal systems are as follows:
1)

Population growth

2)

Weather forecasting

3)

Planning commission etc.

For continuous time (C.T.) system:

A C.T. system is said to be causal if it produces a response y(t) only after the application of
excitation x(t). That means for a causal system the response does not begin before the
application of the input x(t).
The other way of defining the causal system is as follows:
A system is said to be causal if its output depends on present and past values of the input

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A system is said to be causal if its output depends on present and past values of the input
and not on the future inputs. If the input is applied at t = tm then the output at t = tm y(tm) will
be dependent only on the values of x(t) for t tm.

Condition for causality: y(tm) = f[x(t); t tm]

Causal systems are physically realizable systems. The non-causal systems do not satisfy above
condition. Non-causal systems are not physically realizable.
Condition for causality in terms of impulse response h(t):
The relation between y(t) and x(t) is given by,

y(t) = x(t)*h(t)
Where * represents convolution and h(t) is the impulse response of the system. The condition
for causality in terms of the impulse response is as follows:

Condition for causality: h(t) = 0 for t<0

This condition states that a linear time invariant (LTI) system is causal if its impulse response
h(t) has a zero value for negative values of time.

Solved problems:
Determine if the systems described by the following equations are causal or non-causal.
1)

y(n) = x(n) + x(n-3)

Solution: the given system is causal because its output (y(n)) depends only on the present x(n)
and past x(n-3) inputs.
2)

y(n) = x(-n+2)

Solution: this is non-causal system. This is because at n = -1 we get

y(-1) = x[-(-1)+2] = x(3).
Thus present output at n = -1, expects future input i.e. x(3)
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3 Responses to Causal and Noncausal System

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Pico August 4, 2013 at 7:21 PM #
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I appreciate your effort in putting these materials in the webpage,but I would like to point
out a mistake.
Anti Causal systems do not depend on past .Non causall depends on past,anti causal
strictly depends on present and future
Pico
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Mayuresh Joshi August 4, 2013 at 8:36 PM #
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Thanks for showing your interest in my post. (i am totally appreciate with you) i have
corrected a definition of anticausal system.
once again thanks for correcting my post. Stay connected.
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hagos April 9, 2014 at 6:54 PM #
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and also i add ,
a signal that is zero for -ve time are causal signals while anticausal signals are zero
for all +ve/positive time .But for signals that have non zero in both negative and
positive are non-causal signals.
thanks
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