EE 4100 - Circuit Synthesis

Prerequisite(s): EE 3100.
This course is an intermediate level treatment of passive and active circuit synthesis. Subjects include scaling and response normalization, methods of approximation, filter network functions and realizability, first criteria and PR functions, driving-point synthesis of LC networks, realizability and second synthesis of undetermined and doubly-terminated ladder networks, and the active simulation of passive filters with generalized impedance converters. Experimental work includes the design and implementation of high-order filters, methods of approximation, design of filters using Butterworth, Chebyshev and elliptic transfer functions, implementation of passive and active filters and their time and frequency domain characterizations. Credit(s): 3 (3 plus 0)