Synthesis of a complex RiCR filter based on the real elliptic filter and its active simulation

This paper describes a method of configuration of a complex RiCR filter with coupled Chebyshev characteristics. The frequency shift method is a well‐known method of obtaining a complex filter from a real filter, in which the transfer characteristic of the real filter is shifted along the frequency axis. The complex coupled Chebyshev filter obtained by the frequency shifting of a coupled Chebyshev filter has an excellent attenuation characteristic, but the number of constituent elements for active realization is large and the circuit is complex. In the proposed method, the complex coupled Chebyshev filter is first transformed to a complex RiCR filter so that the number of constituent elements for active realization is reduced and the circuit is simplified. In this paper, a method is presented for transforming the complex coupled Chebyshev filter to a complex RiCR filter. The attenuation characteristics and the numbers of constituent elements of the complex filter designed by the proposed method, the complex coupled Chebyshev filter, and the conventional complex RiCR filter, are compared for confirmation of the effectiveness of the proposed method. © 2006 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Electron Comm Jpn Pt 3, 89(5): 12–20, 2006; Published online in Wiley InterScience (www.interscience.wiley.com). DOI 10.1002/ecjc.20212