Linear-phase filter having high gain selectivity

Abstract

A switched capacitor lowpass filter is disclosed having four cascaded general purpose switched capacitor active filter blocks that combine with each other to produce a particular overall transfer function that has high gain selectivity and substantially linear phase response characteristics. The filter can also include a clock input which allows a user to select the cut-off frequency of the filter. The filter's characteristics are tailored in accordance with a method which: (1) introduces a notch frequency into the filter's gain characteristics, so as to improve the filter's gain selectivity near the cut-off frequency, and (2) linearizes the phase response characteristics of the overall filter, without modifying the magnitude of the gain of the notch-containing filter.