TP_1 TP1 low pass filter design 11/11/2014

Student Name:AHMED AL-GUNAID

Objective:
Design a maximally flat low pass filter with cut off freq of 2GHZ R=50 and at least 15Db
insertion loss at 3GHZ.

Step1:
Find the required order of the maximally flast fillter to satisfy the insertion loss of butter worth filter .

ILR=10log(1+(w/wc)2n)=15

=1+(f/fc)2n=10^1.5 (f/fc)2n =30.12

N=4.22~5

Step2:
Tabel gives the proto type element value :

G1=0.618C1

G2=1.618L2

G3=2.00C3

G4=1.618L2

G5=0.618C4

C11 = C1/RO*wc= 0.618/50*2*3.14*2*109 =0.948 Pf

L11=R0*L2/WC=50*1.618/2*3.14*2*109 =6.43 Nf
TP_1 TP1 low pass filter design 11/11/2014
Student Name:AHMED AL-GUNAID

The frequency response of the Butterworth Filter approximation function is also often referred to as

“maximally flat” (no ripples) response because the pass band is designed to have a frequency response
which is as flat as mathematically possible from 0Hz (DC) until the cut-off frequency at -3dB with no
ripples. Higher frequencies beyond the cut-off point rolls-off down to zero in the stop band at 20dB/decade
or 6dB/octave.

However, one main disadvantage of the Butterworth filter is that it achieves this pass band flatness at the
expense of a wide transition band as the filter changes from the pass band to the stop band. It also has poor
phase characteristics as well. The ideal frequency response, referred to as a “brick wall” filter, and the
standard Butterworth approximations.