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High-Q switched-capacitor BandPass Filter?

M

mikem

Dave said:
Would you be thinking of a boxcar averager?

I read about "boxcar averaging algorithm", and it seems to be
a way to minimize noise by oversampling and low-pass filtering.
Does this provide a means of suppressing the higher order
harmonics (second, third, etc) while passing only the
fundamentanal?

What sort of phase shift does it introduce?

MikeM
 
D

Dave VanHorn

mikem said:
I read about "boxcar averaging algorithm", and it seems to be
a way to minimize noise by oversampling and low-pass filtering.

I'm referring to the hardware implementation.
It's an averager, not a low-pass.
If you have a wave that has a big transition in it, and your boxcar has
enough resolution, then you get the transition nicely, even though the
filter has a bandpass that's fractional hz.

Does this provide a means of suppressing the higher order
harmonics (second, third, etc) while passing only the
fundamentanal?

No, but you can do a front end filter that will.
Even order harmonics drop out destructively.
 
J

Jerry Avins

Dave said:
I'm referring to the hardware implementation.
It's an averager, not a low-pass.
If you have a wave that has a big transition in it, and your boxcar has
enough resolution, then you get the transition nicely, even though the
filter has a bandpass that's fractional hz.





No, but you can do a front end filter that will.
Even order harmonics drop out destructively.




None.

True but possibly misleading. It introduces a delay that is the same for
all frequencies.

Jerry
 
D

Dave VanHorn

True but possibly misleading. It introduces a delay that is the same for
all frequencies.

True. It's not what you usually think of, when you think of a filter.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from things you can get.

I like it!
 
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