Electronic – Designing a Band Pass Filter for Project

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I have to design a Band Pass Filter for a project. The filter should let frequencies between 100 and 1000 Hz with a gain of -3db and should damp frequencies about 4 KHz. I am opting for two cascaded Sallen-Key Filters of second order.One is 100Hz highpass and the other is 1000Hz lowpass .Am I on the right track ? I am unable to decide how to choose the Resistance and Capacitor in order to achieve the desired result.Can someone please help? 🙂

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Best Answer

Yes, you can combine low pass and high pass filters to make a band pass filter.

At your relatively low frequencies, you can get better performance and accuracy by doing it digitally. Let's say you sample at about 5 kHz. Using a 4096 sample buffer gives you long tails on the filter kernel, and will yield a much sharper filter than you can reasonably do in analog. The convolution would require 5000 x 4096 = 20.5 M multiply-accumulates per second. There are many small DSPs or microcontrollers that can easily do this. Take a look at the Microchip dsPIC series, for example. A dsPIC EP family part can do 70 M MACCs/second.

What you need isn't pushing any limits of readily available parts, and you can even increase the sample rate if you have a aliasing problem, or widen the filter kernel for sharper pass band to stop band transitions.