Abstract :
NETWORK SYNTHESIS is the art of constructing a network whose behavior is prescribed. Usually, the term behavior refers to some particular response of the network to a particular stimulus. The network illustrated in Figure 1 is assumed to have two pairs of accessible terminals, and a response which may be of interest is E2, the open-circuit voltage at terminals 2, when the stimulus is E1, the open-circuit voltage at terminals 1. The behavior in this case is the transfer function of the network, defined as the ratio E2/E1 = θ(p), a function of the complex frequency variable p = σ+iω. Generally, the realization of a network function includes a statement of the necessary and sufficient conditions which such function must satisfy, and a procedure for constructing the network.
