Modeling of the EMS VCS3 voltage-controlled filter as a nonlinear filter network

IEEE Transactions on Audio, Speech and Language Processing

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 760-772

  Fontana, Federico ^a   Civolani, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Circuit modeling; Digital filters; Nonlinear systems; Voltage controlled filter

Indexed keywords

ALIASING; CIRCUIT MODELING; COMPUTATION TIME; DELAY FREE LOOPS; DISCRETE TIME VERSION; DISCRETE-TIME FILTERS; FILTER DESIGNS; FILTER NETWORKS; FIXED-POINT ITERATIONS; NEW MODEL; NONLINEAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION; NONLINEAR FILTER; SAMPLING RATES; SYSTEM VARIABLES; VOLTAGE-CONTROLLED;

DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; ELECTRIC CONVERTERS; MAGNETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; NONLINEAR EQUATIONS; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS;

DIGITAL FILTERS;

EID: 77951147656     PISSN: 15587916     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TASL.2010.2046287     Document Type: Article

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