DESIGN OF AN AUDIO FREQUENCY DISPLAY

COLOUR ORGAN

FILTERS’ SPECIFICATIONS –
We have to write about BAND PASS FILTER which has to pass frequency range
in between 400-700 Hz to light a green LED which is based on frequency response
display as shown in Fig.1.

DESIGN PART –
First we design about type of filer that it is either active or passive or order of filter
and to fulfill the requirements of what is present in the design specifications part.

The input from Audio system is passed to OPAMP A which provides necessary
amplifications to the input signal and then the signal is divided into three parts
which has different filters circuit to give RED , GREEN and BLUE light at the
output based on different frequency response.

We are interested to design the Band pass filter circuit and its design which is
responsible for providing GREEN color LED signal.

As OPAMP called operational amplifier which is used in the circuit which is an

active device, so we have to design active band pass filter circuit as per
requirement of second order limit and the circuit diagram of band pass filter is
shown below.

Fig1. Circuit diagram of band pass filer circuit with its frequency response

BAND PASS FILTER –

A band pass filter is nothing but a filter circuit which is used to filter frequencies in
the desired range and it passes frequencies in between desired range and attenuates
other frequencies so that it cannot pass through our main designed circuit.
It is used to pass the signal components in the specified range like in our
design part we have to pass frequency in the range of 400 Hz to 700 Hz and
to block other frequencies which help in providing GREEN color LED at the
output.
The design part of the band pass filter consists of cascading high pass and
low pass filter together so that it passes the frequencies within the desired
range and attenuates the other frequencies components which help for the
driver circuit in the next stage to produce Green light at the output circuit.
In the circuit shown above the first part consist of RC high pass filter which
passes high frequency above cutoff and attenuates low frequency and the
formula of cut off frequency given below which helps in choosing the value
of R1 and C1 to generate desired frequency range.

Now we design second part which is an RC low pass filter which passes low
frequencies range and attenuates frequencies above cutoff frequencies , and
the formula of cutoff frequency is given below which helps in designing low
frequency cut off frequency.

The range of frequencies which the band pass filter passes is called
bandwidth which is nothing but the difference between higher and lower cut
off frequencies we discussed above.
So, in our circuit input from any audio source is coming and then amplified
by amplifier then the band pass filter performs its operation and passes only
the desired frequency range.
Then after OPAMP C provides further amplification of the signal to boost its
amplitude and then the PEAK detector circuit is used which is used to detect
the peak of the amplified signal and stores the peak voltage which in turns
gives GREEN light at the output driver circuit.