Advanced Active Filter Design
Description: Design of active high-pass, band-stop, and all-pass filters,
tunable filters, frequency discriminators, and oscillators.
filters and frequency transformations.
Textbook: C.S. Lindquist, Active Network Design, Steward & Sons, CA 1977.
Chapter Topic
5 Optimum Filter Responses: Filter optimization in the time
and frequency domains. ITAE and ISE step, ISE impulse,
ISE delay, ISE gain/phase, and minimum rise time optimum
filters. Minimax, Valand, Budak, and Pade optimum linear
phase filters.
6 Frequency Transformations: Lowpass-to-highpass, bandpass,
bandstop, and allpass transformations.
9 Highpass Filters: Filter compilations, and design examples.
Tuned highpass filters and complementary highpass filters.
10 Bandpass Filters: Filter compilations, and design examples.
Tuned bandpass filters and frequency discriminators.
11 Bandstop Filters: Filter compilations, and design examples.
Tuned bandstop filters and amplitude equalizers.
12 Allpass Filters: Filter compilations, and design examples.
Tuned allpass filters and delay equalizers.
13 Oscillators: Oscillator compilations, and design examples.
Harmonic distortion.
Project: Design, analyze (using microCap simulations and other software),
build, and test a 4th order bandpass or bandstop filter, tuned filter,
or discriminator.
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