Analog Filter Design (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) [Hardcover]

M. E. Van Valkenburg (Author), Mac Elwyn Van Valkenburg (Author)

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ISBN-10: 0195107349 | ISBN-13: 978-0195107340 | Publication Date: June 8, 1995

This classic was the first to fill the need for an undergraduate text in analog filters for electrical engineering. Intended for juniors and seniors with a background in introductory circuits, including Laplace transforms, the text focuses on inductorless filters in which the active element is the operational amplifier (op-amp). Passive LCR filters are excluded except as prototypes from which an active equivalent is then found. Students learn the importance of op-amps to analog systems, which Van Valkenburg equates with the significance of the microprocessor to digital systems. Because the book is inteded for undergraduates, sophisticated mathematics has been avoided wherever possible in favor of algebraic derivations. Design topics require at most a hand-held calculator.

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M. E. Van Valkenburg is at Department of Electrical Engineering.

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• Hardcover: 624 pages
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA (June 8, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0195107349
• ISBN-13: 978-0195107340
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,135,329 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introductory text about analog filter design., July 30, 1996

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(Reviewed by a practicing electrical engineer) This book is an excellent introductory text about analog filter design. It was written for use in teaching a junior-senior level undergraduate class at the University level. The book begins with a review of basic op amp circuits and then progresses to simple one-pole circuit designs. From there, the author builds a step-by-step theoretical background for active filter design, starting with the most fundamental two-pole building block (the biquad circuit), and then showing how to use these to design Chebyshev, Butterworth, and Bessel filter characteristics of any number of poles. Cauer, Inverse Chebyshev, and switched capacitor designs are also covered. Other highly useful chapters cover delay equalization, sensitivity to component variations, as well as a general design approach for choosing appropriate filter characteristics for a design requirement. The book's main focus is on active filter design using op amp's, although there is also one chapter devoted to passive filter design. Design is stressed in the examples and problems from the very beginning pages, as opposed to mere mathematical analysis. The mathematics are fairly straightforward, mostly algebra, and the text is fairly easy to read and follow. Examples illustrate each chapter segment, and each chapter has questions at the end. I would recommend this book for anyone seeking a basic theoretical understanding and design capability for active filters. (Probably other introductory texts would be better for passive filters.) This is not a "handbook" or "filter cookbook"; it actually lays the theoretical and mathematical groundwork for the filters it teaches you to design.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Great book for explaining the basis of analog filter design, September 30, 2007

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This review is from: Analog Filter Design (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Hardcover)

It is assumed that the reader of this book has had a first course in circuit analysis and is familiar with Laplace transforms. Because the book is intended for undergraduates, algebra is used to explain the mathematical workings of the various filters rather than calculus if at all possible. The book concentrates on inductorless filters. Such filters are required for voice and data communications systems where the size and weight of inductors make their use not very feasible. An advantage of this approach is that the usefulness of the op amp can be stressed. Chapter 2 introduces the op amp in analog operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication, and integration. Chapters 3 and 4 constitute a review of sinusoidal steady-state topics recast to provide an introduction to first-order filters. Chapter five features the universal biquad, and through it the standard forms of filter response: lowpass, bandpass, highpass, bandstop, and allpass.

In the chapters that follow, the functions of a filter are studied in combination with the frequency-response approximation used by filter designers: Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel-Thompson, inverse Chebyshev, and elliptic. Chapter 14 treats the synthesis of doubly terminated passive ladders. This, together with Chapter 11, constitute an introduction to passive filter design. An important conclusion is reached in Chapter 14 in regards to sensitivity - the passive ladder circuit has low sensitivity. The study of simulated ladder circuits is begun in chapters 15 through 17. Simulation of the passive ladder is accomplished in three ways: by introducing new elements which make it possible to exclude the inductor, through the simulation of the block diagram representation of the ladder, and through the simulation of resistors using switched capacitors. All of these methods are discussed.

In spite of its academic origins this really is a very helpful design book. It has the circuits side by side with the math, and it also has design rules in numbered steps with very good illustrations and examples throughout. I highly recommend it for the library of the practicing engineer as well as the student.

5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Introduction to filtering theory, December 27, 2011

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This review is from: Analog Filter Design (Oxford Series in Electrical and Computer Engineering) (Hardcover)

I took this class eons ago, and it was as good as Hodges and Jacksons transistor design theory (which is btw a classic and used to this day in the fast paced design world). The book starts the student from stractch and presents filtering design in a practical fashion builing the knowledge up from the fundamentals. I can't think of any other book that I could recommend as an introductury text book.