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Post subject: suggestion of website and book...

Unread postPosted: Thu May 12, 2005 10:42 am

Dear all,

I am a beginner in designing a RF Bandpass filter. :( As my assignment/project required me to design a RF bandpass filters for the receiver operating from 2110-2170MHz, i hope you all can suggest to me which websites and books suitable for me to learn how to design the required BPF. Hope for the reply soon, thank you. :lol:

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Befuddled

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Unread postPosted: Thu May 12, 2005 11:11 am

Why would you build one when muRata and Epcos make every kind of SAW BPF under the sun for the UMTS bands?

:roll:

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Tom

Post subject: Filter Design

Unread postPosted: Thu May 12, 2005 1:56 pm

What kind of filter do you want to design, LC, microstrip? Here are couple of good books.

https://www.noblepub.com/shopexd.asp?id=27

https://www.noblepub.com/shopexd.asp?id=5

A page for LC design is here

https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/lcfilter/

Other design programs are here. You find something that helps.

https://www.circuitsage.com/filter.html

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beginner

Post subject: Re: Filter Design

Unread postPosted: Fri May 13, 2005 6:03 am

Tom wrote:

What kind of filter do you want to design, LC, microstrip? Here are couple of good books.

https://www.noblepub.com/shopexd.asp?id=27

https://www.noblepub.com/shopexd.asp?id=5

A page for LC design is here

https://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/lcfilter/

Other design programs are here. You find something that helps.

https://www.circuitsage.com/filter.html

Dear Tom,

The bandpass filter is used in 3G mobile transceiver, is it i am required to design a LC bandpass filter rather than microstrip type?

The book "Radio-Frequency Electronics'' by Jon B. Hagen suitable for me to learn how to design the bandpass filter? or the two books mentioned above are more suitable?

"shnt-bpf.mcd", what software is suitable to open the .mcd file?

Thanx for your reply, Tom. Thank you.

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Guest

Post subject: mcd files

Unread postPosted: Mon May 16, 2005 8:33 pm

.mcd files are opened with MathCAD (www.mathcad.com)

Good Luck!

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Guest

Post subject: Filter Design

Unread postPosted: Wed May 18, 2005 4:08 pm

Book recommendations:

1. Theory and Design of Microwave Filters by Ian Hunter

2. Microstrip filters for RF/Microwave Applications by Hong and Lancaster

3. Microwave Filters, Impedance-matching Networks, and Coupling Structures by Matthei, Young, and Jones

4. Microwave Engineering by Pozar

Posted  11/12/2012