Filters and Tuned
Amplifiers
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Figure 12.1 The filters studied in this chapter are linear circuits represented by the general two-port network shown. The filter transfer function
T(s)  Vo(s)/Vi(s).
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Figure 12.2 Ideal transmission characteristics of the four major filter types: (a) low-pass (LP), (b) high-pass (HP), (c) bandpass (BP), and (d)
bandstop (BS).
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Figure 12.3 Specification of the transmission characteristics of a low-pass filter. The magnitude response of a filter that just meets specifications
is also shown.
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Figure 12.4 Transmission specifications for a bandpass filter. The magnitude response of a filter that just meets specifications is also shown. Note
that this particular filter has a monotonically decreasing transmission in the passband on both sides of the peak frequency.
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Figure 12.5 Pole–zero pattern for the low-pass filter whose transmission is sketched in Fig. 12.3. This is a fifth-order filter (N = 5).
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Figure 12.6 Pole–zero pattern for the band-pass filter whose transmission function is shown in Fig. 12.4. This is a sixth-order filter (N = 6).
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Figure 12.7 (a) Transmission characteristics of a fifth-order low-pass filter having all transmission zeros at infinity. (b) Pole–zero pattern for the
filter in (a).
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Figure 12.8 The magnitude response of a Butterworth filter.
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Figure 12.9 Magnitude response for Butterworth filters of various order with e = 1. Note that as the order increases, the response approaches the
ideal brick-wall type of transmission.
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Figure 12.10 Graphical construction for determining the poles of a Butterworth filter of order N. All the poles lie in the left half of the s plane on
a circle of radius w0 = wp(1/e)1/N, where e is the passband deviation parameter (e = 10Amax/10 – 1): (a) the general case, (b) N = 2, (c) N = 3, and (d)
N = 4.
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Figure 12.11 Poles of the ninth-order Butterworth filter of Example 12.1.
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Figure 12.12 Sketches of the transmission characteristics of representative (a) even-order and (b) odd-order Chebyshev filters.
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Figure 12.13 First-order filters.
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Figure 12.14 First-order all-pass filter.
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Figure 12.15 Definition of the parameters w0 and Q of a pair of complex-conjugate poles.
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Figure 12.16 Second-order filtering functions.
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Figure 12.16 (Continued)
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Figure 12.16 (Continued)
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Figure 12.17 (a) The second-order parallel LCR resonator. (b, c) Two ways of exciting the resonator of (a) without changing its natural
structure: resonator poles are those poles of Vo/I and Vo/Vi.
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Figure 12.18 Realization of various second-order filter functions using the LCR resonator of Fig. 12.17(b): (a) general structure, (b) LP, (c) HP,
(d) BP, (e) notch at w0, (f) general notch, (g) LPN (wn  w0), (h) LPN as s  , (i) HPN (wn < w0).
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Figure 12.19 Realization of the second-order all-pass transfer function using a voltage divider and an LCR resonator.
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Figure 12.20 (a) The Antoniou inductance-simulation circuit. (b) Analysis of the circuit assuming ideal op amps. The order of the analysis steps
is indicated by the circled numbers.
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Figure 12.21 (a) An LCR resonator. (b) An op amp–RC resonator obtained by replacing the inductor L in the LCR resonator of (a) with a
simulated inductance realized by the Antoniou circuit of Fig. 12.20(a). (c) Implementation of the buffer amplifier K.
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Figure 12.22 Realizations for the various second-order filter functions using the op amp–RC resonator of Fig. 12.21(b): (a) LP, (b) HP, (c) BP,
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Figure 12.22 (Continued) (d) notch at w0, (e) LPN, wn  w0, (f) HPN, wn  w0, and (g) all pass. The circuits are based on the LCR circuits in Fig.
12.18. Design equations are given in Table 12.1.
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Figure 12.23 Derivation of a block diagram realization of the two-integrator-loop biquad.
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Figure 12.24 (a) The KHN biquad circuit, obtained as a direct implementation of the block diagram of Fig. 12.23(c). The three basic filtering
functions, HP, BP, and LP, are simultaneously realized. (b) To obtain notch and all-pass functions, the three outputs are summed with appropriate
weights using this op-amp summer.
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Figure 12.25 (a) Derivation of an alternative two-integrator-loop biquad in which all op amps are used in a single-ended fashion. (b) The
resulting circuit, known as the Tow–Thomas biquad.
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Figure 12.26 The Tow–Thomas biquad with feedforward. The transfer function of Eq. (12.68) is realized by feeding the input signal through
appropriate components to the inputs of the three op amps. This circuit can realize all special second-order functions. The design equations are
given in Table 12.2.
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Figure 12.27 (a) Feedback loop obtained by placing a two-port RC network n in the feedback path of an op amp. (b) Definition of the opencircuit transfer function t(s) of the RC network.
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Figure 12.28 Two RC networks (called bridged-T networks) that can have complex transmission zeros. The transfer functions given are from b to
a, with a open-circuited.
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Figure 12.29 An active-filter feedback loop generated using the bridged-T network of Fig. 12.28(a).
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Figure 12.30 (a) The feedback loop of Fig. 12.29 with the input signal injected through part of resistance R4. This circuit realizes the bandpass
function. (b) Analysis of the circuit in (a) to determine its voltage transfer function T(s) with the order of the analysis steps indicated by the circled
numbers.
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Figure 12.31 Interchanging input and ground results in the complement of the transfer function.
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Figure 12.32 Application of the complementary transformation to the feedback loop in (a) results in the equivalent loop (same poles) shown in
(b).
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Figure 12.33 (a) Feedback loop obtained by applying the complementary transformation to the loop in Fig. 12.29. (b) Injecting the input signal
through C1 realizes the high-pass function. This is one of the Sallen-and-Key family of circuits.
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Figure 12.34 (a) Feedback loop obtained by placing the bridged-T network of Fig. 12.28(b) in the negative-feedback path of an op amp. (b)
Equivalent feedback loop generated by applying the complementary transformation to the loop in (a). (c) A low-pass filter obtained by injecting Vi
through R1 into the loop in (b).
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Figure 12.35 Basic principle of the switched-capacitor filter technique. (a) Active-RC integrator. (b) Switched-capacitor integrator. (c) Two-phase
clock (nonoverlapping). (d) During f1, C1 charges up to the current value of vi and then, during f2, discharges into C2.
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Figure 12.36 A pair of complementary stray-insensitive switched-capacitor integrators. (a) Noninverting switched-capacitor integrator. (b)
Inverting switched-capacitor integrator.
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Figure 12.37 (a) A two-integrator-loop active-RC biquad and (b) its switched-capacitor counterpart.
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Figure 12.38 Frequency response of a tuned amplifier.
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Figure 12.39 The basic principle of tuned amplifiers is illustrated using a MOSFET with a tuned-circuit load. Bias details are not shown.
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Figure 12.40 Inductor equivalent circuits.
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Figure 12.41 A tapped inductor is used as an impedance transformer to allow using a higher inductance, L, and a smaller capacitance, C.
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Figure 12.42 (a) The output of a tuned amplifier is coupled to the input of another amplifier via a tapped coil. (b) An equivalent circuit. Note that the
use of a tapped coil increases the effective input impedance of the second amplifier stage.
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Figure 12.43 A BJT amplifier with tuned circuits at the input and the output.
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Figure 12.44 Two tuned-amplifier configurations that do not suffer from the Miller effect: (a) cascode and (b) common-collector common-base
cascade. (Note that bias details of the cascode circuit are not shown.)
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Figure 12.45 Frequency response of a synchronously tuned amplifier.
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Figure 12.46 Stagger-tuning the individual resonant circuits can result in an overall response with a passband flatter than that obtained with
synchronous tuning (Fig. 12.45).
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Figure 12.47 Obtaining a second-order narrow-band bandpass filter by transforming a first-order low-pass filter. (a) Pole of the first-order filter in the
p plane. (b) Applying the transformation s = p + jw0 and adding a complex-conjugate pole results in the poles of the second-order bandpass filter.
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Figure 12.47 (Continued) (c) Magnitude response of the first-order low-pass filter. (d) Magnitude response of the second-order bandpass filter.
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Figure 12.48 Obtaining the poles and the frequency response of a fourth-order stagger-tuned narrow-band bandpass amplifier by transforming a
second-order low-pass maximally flat response.
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Figure 12.48 (Continued)
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Figure 12.49 Circuits for Example 12.5. (a) Fifth-order Chebyshev filter circuit implemented as a cascade of two second-order simulated LCR
resonator circuits and a single first-order op amp–RC circuit.
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Figure 12.49 (Continued) (b) VCVS representation of an ideal op amp with gain A.
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Figure 12.50 Magnitude response of the fifth-order lowpass filter circuit shown in Fig. 12.49: (a) an expanded view of the passband region; (b) a view
of both the passband and stopband regions.
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Figure 12.51 One-pole equivalent circuit macromodel of an op amp operated within its linear region.
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Figure 12.52 Circuit for Example 11.6. Second-order bandpass filter implemented with a Tow–Thomas biquad circuit having f0 = 10 kHz, Q = 20, and
unity center-frequency gain.
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Figure 12.53 Comparing the magnitude response of the Tow–Thomas biquad circuit (shown in Fig. 12.52) constructed with 741-type op amps, with
the ideal magnitude response. These results illustrate the effect of the finite dc gain and bandwidth of the 741 op amp on the frequency response of the
Tow–Thomas biquad circuit.
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Figure 12.54 (a) Magnitude response of the Tow–Thomas biquad circuit with different values of compensation capacitance. For comparison, the ideal
response is also shown.
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Figure 12.54 (Continued) (b) Comparing the magnitude response of the Tow–Thomas biquad circuit using a 64-pF compensation capacitor and the
ideal response.
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Figure P12.11
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Figure P12.27
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