ELEC 412 RF

& Microwave Engineering

Fall 2004
Lecture 11

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RF Filter Design Basic Filter Types

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Filter Attenuation Profiles

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RF Filter Parameters

Insertion Loss: IL 10 log Pin 10 log 1 in 2

PL

Ripple
Bandwidth: BW 3dB = fu3dB fL3dB
Shape Factor: SF BWA

min

BWAmax

Rejection
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Low-Pass Filter

Cascading four ABCD-networks.

A B 1 R
G
C D
0 1

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1 R
0 1

0 1
1

j C 1 1 R
L

1
1 R RG j C
RL

1
j C

RL

RG RL

RF Filter Parameters
Cascading four ABCD-networks.

A B 1 R
G

C D 0 1

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1 R
0 1

0 1
1
j C 1 1
R

1
1 R RG j C
RL

1
j C
RL

RG RL

Low-Pass Filter Frequency Response

Frequency Response from the ABCD
Definitions:

v1
A
v2

i2 0

So the Transfer Function is Simply:

1
1
H
A
1 j RG R C
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Low-Pass Filter Frequency Response

Corresponding Phase is:

Im
H

tan 1

Re H

Group Delay:

tg
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d
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High-Pass Filter

A B 1 R
G

C D 0 1

1 R
0 1

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1
1

j L RL
1
1

j L RL

1 R RG

1
1
j L

1
1

RL

RG RL

High-Pass Filter Frequency Response

Frequency Response from the ABCD
Definitions:

v1
A
v2

i2 0

So the Transfer Function is Simply:

1
1
H
A
1
1
1 RG R

j L RL
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High-Pass Filter Frequency Response

For :
V2

VG

1
RL

R RG RL RG R

1
RL

Inductive Influence Can Be Neglected

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Low-Pass Filter Realizations

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Low-Pass Butterworth Filter Coefficients

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Low-Pass Butterworth Filter Attenuation

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Low-Pass Linear-Phase Filter

Coefficients

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Chebyshev-Type Filters

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Chebyshev-Type Filters

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Chebyshev-Type Filter Response

Response for 3 dB ripple Chebyshev LPF

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Chebyshev-Type Filter Response

Response for 0.5 dB ripple Chebyshev LPF

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Low-Pass Chebysev Filter Coefficients

3 dB Ripple

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Low-Pass Chebysev Filter Coefficients

0.5 dB Ripple

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Standard Low-Pass Filter Design

The normalized inductors and capacitors
(g1, g2 , ... , gN ) are denormalized using:

Cn
C
2fC R

and

Ln R
L
2fC

where Cn , Ln , are the gn normalized values

from the tables
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