Notes on Digital Signal Processing: Practical Recipes for Design, Analysis and Implementation
by C. Britton Rorabaugh
Note 40. Butterworth Filters
Lowpass Butterworth filters are designed to have a magnitude response that is as flat as possible at low frequencies, and that decreases monotonically with increasing frequency, as shown in Figure 40.1. A lowpass Butterworth filter has a transfer function of the form shown in Math Box 40.1. Examination of this transfer function reveals that a Butterworth lowpass filter is an all-pole design that is completely specified by just two parameters—the number of poles, n, and the 3-dB cutoff frequency, ω3dB. The number of poles is usually set to acheive a desired amount of attenuation, ASB, at and above some specified stopband-edge frequency, ωSB. This frequency and the amount of stopband attenuation are not direct specifications ...
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