CAD of microwave integrated multistage active filters by the real frequency method

Author

Jarry, P. ; Kerherve, E. ; Hazouard, M. ; Pham, J.-M.

Author_Institution

Microelectron. Lab., Bordeaux I Univ., Talence, France

fYear

1998

fDate

9-12 Aug 1998

Firstpage

339

Lastpage

342

Abstract

This paper presents results of synthesis and optimization for active and integrated microwave filters. The method is based on the real frequency theory. The gain, bandwidth, VSWR and group delay are the optimized characteristics. Optimization is done with the More (1978) subroutine which is an improvement of the Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm. These integrated active low-pass and bandpass filters are used in the field of telecommunications. Applications are given with one or several FET, several equalizers and attenuation poles which are necessary for filters. Lowpass and bandpass examples are given in microwave domains. The responses of filters can have an asymmetric frequency characteristics. A CAD program has been written and named FREELCD. We give the different subroutines and show that FREELCD is useful for microwave integrated active filters

Keywords

active filters; band-pass filters; circuit CAD; circuit optimisation; equalisers; field effect MMIC; low-pass filters; microwave filters; telecommunication equipment; CAD program; FET; FREELCD; Levenberg-Marquardt algorithm; VSWR; asymmetric frequency characteristics; attenuation poles; bandpass filters; bandwidth; equalizers; filter responses; gain; group delay; low-pass filters; measured S-parameters; microwave integrated multistage active filters; optimization; real frequency method; subroutine; subroutines; synthesis; telecommunications; Active filters; Algorithms; Attenuation; Band pass filters; Bandwidth; Delay; Equalizers; Frequency; Microwave FETs; Microwave filters;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Radio and Wireless Conference, 1998. RAWCON 98. 1998 IEEE

Conference_Location

Colorado Springs, CO

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4988-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RAWCON.1998.709206

Filename

709206