SWITCHED CAPACITOR FILTER HAVING A REDUCED CAPACITANCE

摘要

In a switched capacitor filter of a first-order responsive to a filter input signal for producing a filter output signal by carrying out sampling operation at a predetermined sampling rate by the use of switching circuit, a capacitor, and an integrating circuit, a voltage divider produces a voltage divided signal in response to the filter input signal to reduce a total capacitance determined by capacitances of the capacitor and the integrating circuit. The voltage divided signal is sampled by the switching circuit to be sent to the integrating circuit at the sampling rate through the capacitor. The integrating circuit produces the filter output signal as a result of integration. In addition, an additional switched capacitor filter of a first-order is connected in cascade to the filter to form a switched capacitor filter of a second-order. The additional filter comprises an additional voltage divider for voltage dividing an output signal of the additional filter to deliver an additional voltage divided signal to the filter and the additional filter.