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- From: tomb@hplsla.hp.com (Tom Bruhns)
- Date: Tue, 15 Dec 1992 16:27:27 GMT
- Subject: Re: Anti-aliasing input filters for Amiga samplers
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- ja51359@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (axelrod) writes:
-
- >Do any of the current Amiga samplers contain anti-aliasing filters?
- >Preferably adjustable ones of course, since your sampling rate is
- >variable. If not, does anyone know of a cheap way of either building
- >some, or buying a cheap unit that is a variable frequency line-level
- >low-pass filter?
-
- I don't know anything of the commercially available samplers, but
- it's easy to do a very respectable AAF in (almost) a single chip.
- I'm using MAX293's (from Maxim) in a design that digitizes to 12 bits,
- and they seem fine for that. You clock them at 100x the desired
- cutoff frequency; if you don't have that frequency, you could
- generate it with a phase locked loop. This particular filter is
- an elliptic design, appropriate for sampling at 2.5x the cutoff
- frequency, but in the same series are a Butterworth and a sharper
- elliptic filter, and variations that clock at 50x. These are
- switched-capacitor filters, and as sampled systems, must themselves
- be alias protected: unless your input signal has very significant
- high frequencies (up near the 100x clock), this is a non-problem.
-
- Maxim also makes some continuous-time digitally-adjustable filters,
- and Linear Technology also has some similar filters. The MAX293's
- cost on the order of $8 in singles, and come in 8 pin dip or 16 pin
- SOIC packages... Oh, they also include an op amp (though not a very
- impressive one). And National and TI also make some switched C filters
- that are small, fairly cheap, and pretty accurate.
-