Active RC High Order Filters Suitable for Antialiasing and/or Reconstruction Filters

The discrete-time signal processing circuit requires an anti-aliasing filter at the input and a reconstruction filter at the output, generally. In this paper, selected basic structures of some high order filters are described and compared with a view to the degradation of the attenuation over the transient frequency of the operational amplifier. Firstly, the reasons for the degradation of the attenuation are explained theoretically. Secondly, these conclusions are verified by simulations. These simulations were performed by spice-like circuit simulator MicroCap version 11.