25MHz LPF help with design
I need it to be quite sharp, in the sense that I need to attenuate the >= 28MHz quite a lot.
Thanks
You know that a passband ripple and stopband attenuation specification is necessary to finish the design.
you can try this toplogy first.
Because 25 MHz is too close to 28 MHz,
It is difficult to achieve low insertion loss for 25 MHz and high attenuation for 28 MHz simultaneously.
Thus, maybe you should use BPF rather than LPF.
No, not a bandpass filter. It has to cut-out all frequencies above 25MHz not below. It will be used as a filter in a 14MHz-25MHz 1W transmitter, so the second harmonic of 14MHz which is 28MHz (and frequencies above that of course), has to be cut quite well.
I think I have space onto the PCB for 2-3 T50-2 cores.
See the post above, I do not have specific requirements, as long as the passband ripple is kept low (<0.5db or less?) and the stopband attenuation as high as possible. I consider the 28MHz first for the reasons explained above and because it is the first HAM band (harmonic of 14MHz) that needs to be cut first. The higher harmonics should be easier attenuated anyway because they are more within the filter's cut.
I misunderstood that your center frequency is only 25 MHz.
If so, you can try this BPF firstly.
Insertion loss of 14 MHz : 0.237 dB
Insertion loss of 25 MHz : 0.475 dB
Insertion loss of 28 MHz : 24.4 dB
Thus, this topology makes you posses acceptable insertion loss for passband and acceptable rejection for 28 MHz.
As mentioned above, 25 MHz is too close to 28 MHz.
Compared to BPF, it’s difficult for LPF to achieve low insertion loss @ 25 MHz and high rejection @ 28 MHz simultaneously.
Thank you very very much for your reply!
Maybe I was not very clear in my description, the filter has to have a passband from 1-25MHz, whereas the one you have shown starts from 14MHz.
I apologize it was my mistake.
I thought in terms of harmonics not in terms of passband.
Can you alter this design for me so I can try it?
If it helps you, even a more relaxed attenuation curve (with less inductors used) would be ok as the transmitter harmonics are not very high anyway.
Thanks a lot!
Suggestion for Neazoi: Download from http://www.tonnesoftware.com/elsiedownload.html
The free "student edition" should be fine for what you want. Works on Windows, I haven't tried it on Linux yet.
Brian.
Completely wrong. A 9th order low-pass filter (Chebyshev I with 0.5 dB bandpass ripple) has similar stopband attenuation than your suggested bandpass, but uses less components.
Is it that your filter tool doesn't support low-pass filters, or didn't you try?
I have RFsim99, which is simple and can be used to design simple LC filters. My lack of knowledge in filter parameters (apart from the basics) is why I need the advice from more experienced people.
Is it ok to rely on the filter response curve at the given I/O impedances?
See for example this filter (I have no idea what the blue line is). Eventhough complex, it does not meet the specs as it has too much loss even in the passband.
The previous design suggested was good, but one had to think to put series capacitors in the signal path. I did not know that (or similar "tricks")
If your passband is from 1MHz to 25 MHz.
And you hope for less inductors used at the expense of harmonics rejection.
Perhaps you can try the simple 5 order LPF firstly.
Insertion loss @ 1MHz : 0.0014 dB
Insertion loss @ 25 MHz : 0.0474 dB
Oh thanks a lot! that is much better!
Clearly written on the diagram: s11 (reflected signal), see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S_parameters
It's apparently a butterworth filter or similar (no ripple in the passband) with standard cut-off frequency attenuation of 3 dB. Your specification seems to demand a lower cut-off frequency attenuation, if you use a Chebyshev filter prototype, you get cut-off attenuation = ripple maximum by default, e.g. 0.5 dB attenuation for your initial specification. Stopband attenuation does then depend only on the filter order, e.g. about 22.5 dB at 28 MHz for the 9th order filter.
How about this one?
I made some tweaking on the rfsim99. It uses only 3 inductors. The bandpass ripple is 0.26db at worst case. At 24.4MHz it is 0.18db and the attenuation at 28MHz is 10.2db.
Not too bat for such a 3-inductor filter, what do you think?
I do not understand how the blue line should be for a better filter, is it better to be lower or higher in the diagram or it does not matter too much?
I did some more tweaking attached below (1st picture).
I have also tried varying the input ant output impedances from 20R to 300R. I am pleased to say that the filter response (red line) did not degrade too much. The cut off frequency stayed pretty much the same, only the pass-band ripple varied but this can be compensated in my design (ALC).
If you verify that this filter is ok in general, I will be happy to build it.
The latest filter is an elliptical (cauer) type which gives higher stopband attenuation by implementing real zeros.
Still not sure what's your actual stopband specification. But apparently you know now how to use the tools to calculate a filter. Very good.
That is good news!
I only do not know how this blue line (reflected signal) affects the filter and how it should better be. Should it better be at low values or at high ones? Or it does not matter for the filter response?
This is a more general question about filter design, not dedicated to the specific filter.
In a (lossless) LC filter, s11 has a fixed relation to s21, conservation of energy demands s112 + s212 = 1 (reflected + transmitted power = incident power). You'll notice that both lines always intersect at - 3dB. In so far, s11 contains no information that isn't already contained in s21, you can safely ignore the s11 graph.
It's about VSWR that your transmitter "sees" into the low pass.
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