Practical formulation of the relation between filter specifications and the requirements for integrator circuits

The design of integrated, high-frequency, continuous-time filters has made considerable progress in the past few years. As the signal frequencies increase the design of the integrator circuits used in most of these filters becomes more critical. To give direction to the circuit design, minimum specifications for the gain and phase of the integrator circuits would be helpful. A practical method for obtaining these integrator specifications from the filter specifications is developed. The method is applied to a sixth-order Chebyshev band-pass filter, and the result is verified by computer simulation.<>