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I am trying to convert the continuous time transfer function of a second order lowpass Butterworth filter is given by:
LP Transfer function
To a bandpass fourth order bandpass digital filter, I first apply the mapping to bandpass:
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We therefore obtain the bandpass continuous time transfer function
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In order to convert this to a digital filter with with band edge frequencies of 2000Hz and 2819.3 Hz, and a sampling rate of 8 kHz. We first normalise and apply bilinear prewarping
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approximating slightly we get
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Then applying the bilinear transform
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We get the fourth order discrete time filter enter image description here

However
Checking the results at the normalised angular frequencies 0 and at the bandpass center frequency 3, I find that the frequency response is not as desired. is this an arithmetic mistake or have I missed something, your help would be very much appreciated.

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There is an error in the analog bandpass filter transfer function. If you apply the LP-BP transformation as you stated it you should get the following transfer function:

$$H(s)=\frac{s^2(\Omega_2-\Omega_1)^2}{s^4+\sqrt{2}(\Omega_2-\Omega_1)s^3+(\Omega_1^2+\Omega_2^2)s^2+\sqrt{2}\Omega_1\Omega_2(\Omega_2-\Omega_1)s+\Omega_1^2\Omega_2^2}$$

With the given band edge frequencies (note that the lower band edge of the discrete-time filter must be $2000\,\text{Hz}$, not $4000\,\text{Hz}$) you correctly got $\Omega_1=2$ and $\Omega_2=4$. Applying the bilinear transform to the analog bandpass transfer function with these band edges finally gives the following discrete-time transfer function:

$$H(z)=\frac{z^4-2z^2+1}{(10+3\sqrt{2})z^4+(12+2\sqrt{2})z^3+20z^2+(12-2\sqrt{2})z+10-3\sqrt{2}}$$

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  • $\begingroup$ Ah thanks, it was just an arithmetic mistake, I wasnt sure. $\endgroup$
    – peterjtk
    Commented May 11, 2015 at 21:10

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