Laboratory #5: RF Filter Design 1 oByECTIVES ‘A. Design athied order low-pass Chebyshev filer with acu frequency of 330 MHz ad 3 dB (6) What does the SWR do outside the passband? I INTRODUCTION ‘Signa itering is often central to the design of many communication subsystems, ‘The isolition techniques. Other radio stations occupying frequencies close tothe selected. radio sation are climimate "secon" consists of an L-C pai, with each section cores section (or second order) fers are shown in Figure 1. Note inductors changes with varying input andl oust resistances, Tabu the inductors and capacitors for varying termination ratios are available othe design engineer. ‘The component values inthe ib ‘cutoffrequency. ‘Generic represenFigure 1. Two Ladder Network Configurations for LC Fiers R @ Go=H-1_ g 8, é t Bs 1 (o) Figure 2. Two Generic Representations of Figure 1 ‘The closeness ofthe mpedance match between the soure resistance Rand ier apt resistance Ri frequency expressed as a retum iss defined as 1 =20lo; 4) 4-200 ‘Normalized Butterworth (Maximally Fat) Linear Phase, and Chebyshev LC lowpass filters are ‘resented in tabular form on the following pages. The normalized inductors and capacitors are sdenormalized using: one o and tae, © ‘where Cy isthe normalized capacitor value,L, isthe nomalized inductor value, Cis the denormalized (atl) capacitor vale, Liste denonmalized (actual) inductor value, ‘and isthe fina load resis. "The Coefficients forthe Low-Pass Buterwoth, Linear Phase, Chebyshev (3 dbriple) and Chebyshev (05d ripple) fiers are shown in Tales 5-2, 5-3, 5-4), and 5-4(0),repsetively. Table 2 —Coofcionts for mavimally fat lo = 1010) 1.0000 03902 [0000 @1*|~1°||)=|°]=|-]= 74 1.0000 [oars [10000 josiay srs [ions [ian [1ara2 [oso Josia9 [1.00 Table 5.3 _Coofcons fr inoar phase om-pass itr (N= tt 1).