Abstract: Decimation non-recursive digital linear phase FIR filter having a length N and a decimation factor q, comprising a first and a second digital delay line, both consisting of a cascade arrangement of a number of auxiliary delay lines each having a time delay qT. An individual distribution line is connected to the input of each of the delay lines as well as to the output of each of the auxiliary delay lines. Digital input signal components occurring with a period T are applied to the input of the first digital delay line and each auxiliary delay line contains q of these components. These two delay lines are coupled to one another by means of a sequence reversing device which comprises a store having a capacity of q signal components. This reversing device applies, in the next control interval, q input signal components, produced in a given control interval of length qT by the first delay line, in reversed order to the second delay line.