Seeking book recommendation - Active Filter design

[Paul S]

Who can recommend a good book on active filter design? Why do you recommend it?

Thx muchly,
Paul S

 

[John Popelish]

Who can recommend a good book on active filter design? Why do you recommend it?

I have used my copy of "Rapid, Practical Designs of Active Filters" by
Johnson and Hilburn, so much that the cover is coming off.

 

[John Larkin]

Who can recommend a good book on active filter design? Why do you recommend it?

Thx muchly,
Paul S

Lancaster, Active Filter Cookbook. All the basics in an easy-to-read
form.

John

 

[Jim Thompson]

Who can recommend a good book on active filter design? Why do you recommend it?

Thx muchly,
Paul S

*Very* good book for synthesizing your own specific shapes.....

J. L. Herrero and G. Willoner, Synthesis of filters. Prentice-Hall,
1966.


...Jim Thompson

 

[Rich Webb]

Lancaster, Active Filter Cookbook. All the basics in an easy-to-read
form.

And these guys http://www.mpja.com/productview.asp?product=7245+BK have
it with Don's autograph. I didn't really *need* another copy but it was
cool to get a signed one. Ahh, the life of a geek groupie... ';-)

 

[Bill Sloman]

Who can recommend a good book on active filter design? Why do you recommend > it?

Electronic Filter Design Handbook by Williams and Taylor, ISBN
0-07-070430-9

It covers not only the conventional Butterworth, Chebyshev and Bessel
filters, but also a whole menagerie of interesting intermediates that
you can realise with four-pole and higher order filters. Very useful.

Sadly, it seem to be out of print at the moment and the Amazon price
for used copies looks steep to me.

 

[Peter O. Brackett]

Jim:

[snip

*Very* good book for synthesizing your own specific shapes.....

J. L. Herrero and G. Willoner, Synthesis of filters. Prentice-Hall,
1966.
...Jim Thompson

[snip]

Hmmm... I'm surprised at your recommendation.

Herrero and Willoner occupy an honored place on my own bookshelf. A very
well done
and unique treatise on filters. But...

H and W is hardly a book on "active" filters. H and W is largely about the
approximation
and synthesis of "passive" filters including the interesting but arcane
parametric filters.
Although H and W's passive synthesis technique is a very "neat" approach,
its' emphasis on
the somewhat arcane method of analysis by "cumulants" means that their work
is not
readilly accessible to novices or those unfamiliar with tricky polynomial
manipulations
by special computer programs. H and W never made their cumulant program
code available.

An excellent book on both "active" and "passive" filters, which covers the
approximation
problem and which has the Filtor series of programs available [FiltorX these
days] and
which is oriented towards practical considerations and working engineers was
long
considered "the bible" on active filters by many, but sadly now out of print
is:

Adel S. Sedra and Peter O. Brackett, "Filter Theory and Design: Active and
Passive",
Matrix Publishers, Champaign, IL 1978. ISBN 0-916-46914-2, LCCN: 76-39745.

For those who like to borrow library books to learn, this excellent book can
be found
on most technical library bookshelves under call numbers L of C:
TK7872.F5S42 or
Dewey: 621.3815'33.

A used copy of Sedra and Brackett sold on eBay a few weeks ago for $160.00!!

And here I thought active filters were passe', it seems I spend all my time
designing
digital filters these days.

But... at that used selling price it seems to me it's probably time to
refresh and release
that book again.

;-)

 

[Baphomet]

Second that. I used it to design a bi-quartic filter in the early days of
two way t.v. experimentation using telco touch tones as system input.

 

[Paul S]

Thanks to all who replied to this query.

Paul

 

[GPG]

Lancaster, Active Filter Cookbook. All the basics in an easy-to-read
form.

Good book, especially for introduction to the art.