ACTIVE FILTERS

5.

1. A ________ filter rejects all

frequencies within a specified
band and passes all those outside
this band.
A. low-pass
A. 20 dB/decade.
B. high-pass
B. 40 dB/decade.
C. band-pass
The gain of the multiple-feedback band- C. 60 dB/decade.
D. band-stop pass filter above is equal to which of the
following? Assume C = C1 = C2. D. 80 dB/decade.
A. A0 = R2 / R1

2. Identify the frequency response curve B. A0 = R1 / R2

for a band-pass filter. 10.
C. A0 = R2 / 2 R1

D. A0 = R1 / 2 R2 Refer to this figure. This is a ________

filter.

6. Refer to the given figure. This circuit

is known as a ________ filter, and the
fc is ________.

A. low-pass

B. high-pass

C. band-pass

D. band-stop

A. high-pass, 1.59 kHz

B. band-pass, 15.9 kHz 12. Which filter exhibits a linear phase

characteristic?
C. low-pass, 15.9 kHz

D. high-pass, 15.9 kHz A. Bessel

B. Butterworth

C. Chebyshev
7.
D. all of the above
The bandwidth in a ________ filter
equals the critical frequency.
3. Filters with the ________
characteristic are useful when a 14. The critical frequency is defined as
rapid roll-off is required because it the point at which the response drops
provides a roll-off rate greater than A. low-pass ________ from the passband.
–20/dB/decade/pole.
B. high-pass

A. Butterworth C. band-pass A. –20 dB

B. Chebyshev D. band-stop B. –3 dB

C. Bessel C. –6 dB

8. D. –40 dB

4. Filters with the ________ characteristic

are used for filtering pulse waveforms.
A ________ filter significantly 15. Filters with the ________
attenuates all frequencies below fc and characteristic provide a very flat
passes all frequencies above fc. amplitude in the passband and a roll-off
A. Butterworth rate of –20 dB/decade/pole.
A. low-pass
B. Chebyshev
B. high-pass
C. Bessel A. Butterworth
C. band-pass
B. Chebyshev
D. band-stop
9. Refer to the given figure. The roll- C. Bessel
off of this filter is about
 B. high-pass  a. 20 dB per decade
 b. 40 dB per decade
16. Which filter exhibits the most rapid C. band-pass
roll-off rate?
 c. 180 dB per decade
D. band-stop  d. 360 dB per decade
11. If n = 10, the approximation with the
fastest roll-off in the transition region is
A. Bessel
 1. The region between the
 a. Butterworth
B. Butterworth passband and the stopband is
called the  b. Chebyshev
C. Chebyshev  a. Attenuation  c. Inverse Chebyshev
 b. Center  d. Elliptic
D. all of the above 12. The elliptic approximation has a
 c. Transition
 d. Ripple
2. The center frequency of a bandpass  a. Slow roll-off rate compared to
17. Which filter has a maximally flat filter is always equal to the Cauer
response?  b. Rippled stopband
 a. The bandwidth  c. Maximally-flat passband
A. Bessel
 b. Geometric average of the  d. Monotonic stopband
B. Butterworth cutoff frequencies 13. Linear phase shift is equivalent to
 c. Bandwidth divided by Q
C. Chebyshev  d. 3-dB frequency  a. Q = 0.707
D. all of the above
3. The Q of a narrowband filter is always  b. Maximally-flat stopband
 c. Constant time delay
 a. small  d. Rippled passband
 b. equal to BW divided by f0 14. The filter with the slowest roll-off
21. A low-pass filter has a cutoff rate is the
frequency of 1.23 kHz. Determine the
 c. less than 1
bandwidth of the filter.  d. greater than 1
4. A bandstop filter is sometimes called  a. Butterworth
a  b. Chebyshev
 c. Elliptic
A. 2.46 kHz
 a. Snubber  d. Bessel
B. 1.23 kHz  b. Phase shifter 15. A first-order active-filter stage has
 c. Notch filter
C. 644 Hz  d. Time-delay circuit  a. One capacitor
5. The all-pass filter has  b. Two op amps
D. not enough information given
 c. Three resistors
 a. No passband  d. a high Q
 b. One stopband 16. A first-order stage cannot have a
23. One important application of a state-  c. the same gain at all
variable ________ filter with a summing
amplifier is to minimize the 60 Hz
frequencies  a. Butterworth response
 d. a fast roll-off above cutoff  b. Chebyshev response
"hum" in audio systems. 6. The approximation with a maximally-
flat passband is
 c. Maximally-flat passband
 d. Rolloff rate of 20 dB per
decade
A. low-pass  a. Chebyshev 17. Sallen-Key filters are also called
 b. Inverse Chebyshev
B. high-pass
 c. Elliptic  a. VCVS filters
C. band-pass  d. Bessel  b. MFB filters
7. The approximation with a rippled
passband is
 c. Biquadratic filters
D. band-stop
 d. State-variable filters
18. To build a 10th-order filter, we
 a. Butterworth should cascade
 b. Inverse Chebyshev
 c. Elliptic  a. 10 first-stage stages
28. A third-order filter will have a roll-  d. Bessel  b. 5 second-order stages
off rate of 8. The approximation that distorts digital
signals the least is the
 c. 3 third-order stages
 d. 2 fourth-order stages
19. To get a Butterworth response with
A. –20 dB/decade.  a. Butterworth an 8th-order filter, the stages need to
 b. Chebyshev have
B. –40 dB/decade.
 c. Elliptic
C. –60 dB/decade.  d. Bessel  a. Equal Q’s
9. If a filter has six second order stages  b. Unequal center frequencies
–30 dB/decade. and one first-order stage, the order is
D.  c. Inductors
 d. Staggered Q’s
 a. 2 20. To get a Chebyshev response with a
29. A ________ filter passes all  b. 6 12th-order filter, the stages need to have
frequencies within a band between a  c. 7
lower and an upper critical frequency  d. 13  a. Equal Q’s
and rejects all others outside this band. 10. If a Butterworth filter has 9 second-  b. Equal center frequencies
order stages, its roll-off rate is
 c. Staggered bandwidths
A. low-pass
  d. Staggered center frequencies 31. To correct for limited GBW, a
and Q’s designer may use
21. The Q of a Sallen-Key second-order
stage depends on the
 a. A constant time delay
 b. Predistortion
 a. Voltage gain  c. Linear phase shift
 b. Center frequency  d. A rippled passband
 c. Bandwidth
 d. GBW of the op amp
22. With Sallen-Key high-pass filters,
the pole frequency must be

 a. Added to the K values

 b. Subtracted from the K values
 c. Multiplied by the K values
 d. Divided by the K values
23. If BW increases, the

 a. Center frequency decreases

 b. Q decreases
 c. Roll-off rate increases
 d. Ripples appear in the stopband
24. When Q is greater than 1, a bandpass
filter should be built with

 a. Low-pass and high-pass stages

 b. MFB stages
 c. Notch stages
 d. All-pass stages
25. The all-pass filter is used when

 a. High roll-off rates are needed

 b. Phase shift is important
 c. A maximally-flat passband is
needed
 d. A rippled stopband is
important
26. A second-order all-pass filter can
vary the output phase from

 a. 90 degrees to -90 degrees

 b. 0 degrees to -180 degrees
 c. 0 degrees to -360 degrees
 d. 0 degrees to -720 degrees
27. The all-pass filter is sometimes
called a

 a. Tow-Thomas filter
 b. Delay equalizer
 c. KHN filter
 d. State-variable filter
28. The biquadratic filter

 a. Has low component sensitivity

 b. Uses three or more op amps
 c. Is also called Tow-Thomas
filter
 d. All of the above
29. The state-variable filter

 a. Has a low-pass, high-pass,

and bandpass output
 b. Is difficult to tune
 c. Has high component sensitivity
 d. Uses less than three op amps
30. If GBW is limited, the Q of the stage
will

 a. Remain the same

 b. Double
 c. Decrease
 d. Increase