The Design and Simulation of a Fifth-order Chebyshev Low-Pass Filter

Chebyshev filter is a design classification of filters. It uses the Chebyshev transfer function, and has many filter types, such as high-pass, low-pass, band-pass, high-resistance, band-stop and so on. Compared with the Butterworth filter, the transition band of the Chebyshev filter is very narrow, but the internal amplitude-frequency characteristics are unstable [1][2]. Chebyshev filter achieves complex transmission zeros to improve the group delay characteristics in the pass band and reduce the signal distortion. In the process of designing a five-order Chebyshev filter, an active filter network needs to be established, and each stage of the low-pass filter composed of an amplifier is connected in the same cascade to form a multi-order Chebyshev low-pass filter. To design a Chebyshev filter, a Sallen-key structure is needed, and the transfer function is determined according to the position and size of the different resistors and capacitors placed, and a Chebyshev filter with different functions is constructed. The Multisim Simulation software is used to simulate the design results, and the frequency response amplitude curve in the image is found to be fluctuating with equal ripple in the pass or stop band.