Filter Designs - Which is best for your application? (article abstract by R.C. Electronics Inc.)

<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <b><p><font face="Arial">Abstract:  Filter Designs  Which is best for your application? </font></p> </b><p><font face="Arial"><small>Overview: Butterworth, Bessel, and Linear Phase filters are used in many signal conditioning applications. But which is best for the job? How does the selection of the filter distort the signal? This article discusses the filter designs, provides performance characteristic curves, and analyzes which design is best in a variety of applications.</small></font></p> <p><font face="Arial"><small>The article:</small> </font><ol> <li><font face="Arial"><small>Details Butterworth, Bessel, and Linear Phase filter designs. </small></font></li> <li><font face="Arial"><small>Analyzes each filters performance characteristics. </small></font></li> <li><font face="Arial"><small>Overviews the applications best suited for each filter.</small></font></li> </ol> <p><a href="http://www.sensorsmag.com/articles/0200/50/main.shtml" target="_blank"><font face="Arial"><small>Go to article.</small></font></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="index.htm"><font face="Arial">Back to Application Notes Index</font></a></p> <p align="center"><a href="../index.htm" target="_top"><font face="Arial">Home</font></a></p>  <p align="center"><img src="../images/red1.gif" alt="R.C. Electronics logo" WIDTH="142" HEIGHT="48"></p> <p align="center"><font size="2" face="Arial">6464 Hollister Avenue<br> Santa Barbara, CA 93117<br> Phone: (805) 685-7770<br> FAX: (805) 685-5853<br> <a href="../request/index.htm">info@rcelectronics.com</a></font></p> <p align="center"> </p> <p align="center"><font face="Arial" size="1"><a href="../products/index.htm">Products</a>    <a href="../request/index.htm">Contact Us</a>    <a href="index.htm">Application Notes</a>     <a href="../request/add_email.htm">Join E-mail List</a>     <a href="../replist.htm">Representatives</a>     <a href="../calendar.htm">Event Calendar</a>    <a target="_top" href="../index.htm">Home</a></font></p>  </body>