Butterworth Low Pass Filter circuit diagram and explanation

The Butterworth Low pass filters are passing the specific law frequencies and attenuate the high frequency passes through it. Butterworth filters have a monotonic response in both the passband and stopband. The roll-off is smooth, not steep like in Chebyshev or Elliptic filters.

Low Pass Butterworth filter

The filter is essential to the operation of most electronic circuits. The filter is a device or process that removes unwanted components of features from a transmitted signal most of then this means removing some frequencies and not other to suppress interfering signals and reduce background noise.

What is a Butterworth Filter?

The Butterworth filter is a type of signal processing filter design to how much US flight frequency response as possible no ripples. In the passband and zero roles of response in the stop band. Butterworth filters for one of the most commonly used digital filters in motion analysis and in the audio circuits. They are fast and simple to use. since they are frequency based on the effect of filtering can be easily understood and predicted.

Low Pass Butterworth Filter Calculation

In this example, the filter circuit is designed to attenuate all frequencies above 10.25 kHz. The following equation is used to calculate the required capacitor value for the filter is,

  • Where:
  • k is the filter order.
  • Fₐ (or Fc) is the cutoff frequency, here 10.25 kHz.
  • R is the resistance value (typically 10 kΩ for standard audio circuits).
  • Dₖ is the normalized capacitor value obtained from Butterworth filter tables.

Circuit Diagram

Low pass Butterworth filter circuit
Low pass Butterworth filter circuit

The required components or parts

  • LF411CN operational amplifier
  • Audio input Jack
  • 0.01 microfarad capacitor
  • 1 kilo ohm resistor

The capacitor value return calculated by using the formula.

1.753 /10k*2*π*10.25

  • C1 equal to 3nf
  • C2 equal to 2nf
  • C3 equal to 680nf
  • C4 equal to 5 nf
Akhil Satheesh

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