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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Band pass filters
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- Date: Sun, 20 Dec 1992 03:22:33 GMT
- References: <1992Dec18.133346.7262@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec18.133346.7262@sol.ctr.columbia.edu> brown@ccit08.duq.edu (Jason Brown) writes:
- >Anyway, it occurs to me that using some combination of resistors and
- >capacitors in an RC circuit one should be able to filter out all but a
- >given frequency from an analog audio source. The ultimate goal here would
- >be to set up a number of filters at different freqs. and send the output
- >of these filters to log. dot/bar display drivers yielding a spectrum
- >analyzer.
-
- It's hard to make RC circuits that do well at this. They tend to have
- wide passbands with gradually-sloping edges, and to lose a lot of the
- desired signal in the course of attenuating the rest.
-
- Fortunately, there are prepackaged filter ICs that do an excellent job
- of this kind of thing. The buzzword to look for is "switched-capacitor
- filter". National's MF01 was the pioneer, but I'm sure there are better
- ones now.
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- "God willing... we shall return." | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- -Gene Cernan, the Moon, Dec 1972 | henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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