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PCM1808-Q1: Antialiasing filter characteristics

Part Number: PCM1808-Q1
Other Parts Discussed in Thread: PCM1808

Hello,

My questions are related to the post shown below which asked for antialiasing filter.

1) The antialiasing filter cut off frequency is shown on page 4 as -3dB at 1.3MHz when it is Fs=48kHz, but is it the same for other frequencies?  For example, will it be like 430kHz at Fs=16kHz?

2) Is it possible to provide the frequency response curve?  My customer would like to know if it is -12dB/oct, -18dB/oct or others.

3) Would you please tell me the reason why it is set to -3dB at 1.3MHz?  My customer would like to design external peripheral circuit for noise reduction by the information.

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Best Regards,

Yoshikazu Kawasaki

  • Hi Kawasaki-san,

    This is a simple RC filter inside the device and it should be a standard -20dB/decade rolloff after the -3dB cutoff and it should not scale with sample rate.

    I don't have an easy way to show a frequency response curve since this also largely gets filtered out by the modulator and there is no way to probe the modulator inputs directly to see just the effect of the anti-aliasing filter.

    I don't know why 1.3MHz specifically was chosen but this is sufficiently high to avoid any impact to the audio band and filter out high frequency noise that may couple to the input pins.

    Best,

    Zak