It is very effective way to utilize a very wide tunable filter in co-existing multi-standards wireless communications environment. Especially, as the long term evolution (LTE) communication era has come, the multi-band coverage is one of the important features required for the RF components. In this paper, we present the frequency conversion technique, and so generate two types of RF filters wh...

In this paper, a modified auto zeroed integrator is used to design and simulate a low-voltage high-Q switched capacitor pseudo 2-path filter.  The filter is a sixth–order Chebyshev band-pass filter operating at sampling frequency of 1MHz and center frequency of 250 kHz with a quality factor of 50. The proposed filter has both low-voltage and high speed properties of the auto zeroed integrators ...

In this paper, a novel design method for a dual-band bandpass filter (BPF) with arbitrary controllable bandwidths based on a simple frequency mapping function is proposed and its analytical design equations are also derived. The circuit conversion techniques are employed for implementation with distributed transmission line. To validate the proposed dual-band BPF with controllable bandwidths, a...

A novel ultra-wideband (UWB) bandpass filter (BPF) with notched band based on microstrip/slotline ring resonators is presented in this paper. The UWB BPF is fabricated with two microstrip ring resonators on the top copper layer and a slotline ring resonator on the bottom ground layer. Thus, an ultra-wide passband can be achieved owing to the coupling effects and microstrip/slotline transitions ...

Radio receivers should be robust to large out-of-band blockers with small degradation in their sensitivity. N-path mixers can be used as mixer-first-receivers [1] with good linearity and RF filtering [2]. However, 1/f noise calls for large active device sizes for IF circuits and high power consumption. The 1/f noise issue can be relaxed by having RF gain. However, to avoid desensitization by la...

For more size reduction of the high temperature superconducting coplanar waveguide (CPW) bandpass filter (BPF), we introduce the design method of the meanderline CPW quarter-wavelength resonator BPF. The exact admittanceand susceptance-inverters are calculated by using the 2.5-dimensional electromagnetic field simulator. The prototype YBCO miniaturized BPF (center frequency =10GHz, n=3, band wi...

Abstract—This paper presents a novel compact microstrip hybrid four-mode bandpass filter (BPF) with good selectivity and multitransmission zeros. By adding an external resonator to a triplemode stub-loaded resonator, four modes are generated in the desired passband and a hybrid four-mode BPF is implemented. Oddand even-mode theory is introduced to investigate the mode characteristics of triple-...

A cyclotron-resonance maser (CRM) is implemented in a periodic quadrupole waveguide. The device oscillates at the fundamental and high harmonics of the cyclotron frequency. This CRM employs a tenuous low-energy electron beam ( approximately 10 keV, 0.2 A). The periodic structure consists of an array of disks along the quadrupole transmission line, hence it combines both azimuthal and axial peri...

a fourth-degree substrate integrated waveguide (siw) crossed coupled band pass filter for wlan band is designed by using a new negative coupling structure. it consists of two u shape microstrip lines on top and bottom planes with via holes at the center of them. this paper investigates the phase characteristics of negative and positive coupling structures and their effects. the design, fabricat...

A biopotential acquisition analog front-end (AFE) integrated circuit (IC) is presented. The biopotential AFE includes a capacitively coupled chopper instrumentation amplifier (CCIA) to achieve low input referred noise (IRN) and to block unwanted DC potential signals. A DC servo loop (DSL) is designed to minimize the offset voltage in the chopper amplifier and low frequency respiration artifacts...