Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Attenuation calculation from Lecture 12 Example

Hello:

In the lecture 12 example for the cascaded filter design, you solved for ff1 by using the following equation:

(fs/ff1)^2 = attenuation.

How is this derived?  I do not see this in the book.

Can we use this equation in our homework problem 1 and 2 or is it specific to the cascaded Rf-Lb parallel form?

Thanks,
A Dub

4 comments:

  1. I believe the derivation goes as follows: (someone correct me if I am wrong, please :) )

    Attenuation = Output/Input... when in Bode plot land this will be in log form of H(jw) = 20*log|H(jw)|... since the filter is of the form 1/(1+sw) w being 1/sqrt(LC)... we get that |H(jw)| = 1/(1 + jw/wff1)

    20 log (|1/(1 + jw/wff1)|) = -20 log (|1 + jw/wff1|)

    since w/wff1 >> 1,
    this can be written as -20 log(|jw/wff1|)
    = -20 log(w/wff1)

    -20log(w/wff1) = -10log((w/wff1)^2)

    Since we are already in dB scale, we can say that (w/wff1)^2 = attenuation (in dB)

    we want to know where there is 100 dB of attenuation given w = ws, so...

    ((2*pi*fs)/(2*pi*ff1))^2 = 100 dB.. 2*pi cancels out to give

    fs^2/ff1^2 = 100 dB (or whatever attenuation)

    You should be able to use this on the HW :)

    Hope that helps

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    1. Hi Olga:

      Thank you for posting that derivation.

      Cheers,
      A.W.

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    2. There are error in Olga's derivation. Please see my comment below - this has all been well explained in textbook section 8.1.6, which was covered in ECEN5797.

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  2. Please look through Section 8.1.6 of the textbook.

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