Group-delay engineered noncommensurate transmission line all-pass network for analog signal processing

IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 2392-2407

  Gupta, Shulabh ^a   Parsa, Armin ^a,b   Perret, Etienne ^c   Snyder, Richard V ^d   Wenzel, Robert J ^e   Caloz, Christophe ^a  

^a POLY GRAMES RESEARCH CENTER   (Canada)

^b Rutter Inc   (Canada)

^c GRENOBLE INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (France)

^d RS MICROWAVE COMPANY INC   (United States)

^e NONE

Author keywords

All pass circuits; analog signal processing; dispersive media; genetic algorithms (GAs); group delay engineering; multiconductor transmission lines; noncommensurate networks

Indexed keywords

ALL-PASS CIRCUITS; ANALOG SIGNAL PROCESSING; DISPERSIVE MEDIA; GROUP DELAYS; MULTI-CONDUCTOR TRANSMISSION LINES; NONCOMMENSURATE NETWORKS;

ANALOG CIRCUITS; BANDPASS FILTERS; DELAY CIRCUITS; ELECTRIC LINES; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; LUMPED PARAMETER NETWORKS; MAGNETIC FIELD MEASUREMENT; SIGNAL PROCESSING; STRIP TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; TRANSMISSION LINE THEORY;

GROUP DELAY;

EID: 77956620137     PISSN: 00189480     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TMTT.2010.2058933     Document Type: Article

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