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The Butterworth Filter is the maximally flat amplitude filter. It provides a nea r 0 attenuation until near the cutoff frequency and then descends into attenuati on smoothly. The tranition becomes sharper with higher orders. It has moderate g roup delay so it has some overshoot on sharp rising waveforms. this gets worse w ith higher orders. The Chebyshev filter trades off flatness in the pass band for a steeper decline into the stop band. You design a cheby with a recurring wavelike ripple of attenuation in the paasband of usually 0.05db to 3db. In return you get a much steeper portion of t he attenuation curve near the cutoff frequency. waveforms are distorted by group delay errors more severely than in the butterworth. The higher the ripple the w orse the distortion The elliptical filter is like cheby^2 since it has ripples in the stopband and t he passband. It has been proven to be the fastest possible descent into the stopband. The time delay errors are more severe than the cheby. For all of these filters. when at a distance from the cutoff frequency they will attenuate 20db/decade in frequency times the filter order.