Filter DesignGuide

E5618A Filter DesignGuide provides you with synthesis and analysis of commonly used passive filters familiar to microwave designers. Because it allows you to design, simulate, and optimize passive filter components quickly and easily, microwave circuits that previously took significant design time are now synthesized in seconds. The major benefit of Filter DesignGuide is its good use model and tight integration.

ONLINE DEMO

ADS Filter DesignGuide To see a step-by step demo of the Filter DesignGuide in Advanced Design System (ADS), click on the following link: ADS Filter DesignGuide Complete Online Product Demos

Product Highlights

• Wizard-Like User Interface helps user to easily synthesize and analyze a passive filter with minimum effort.
  
• Design Utilities to help estimate the filter response before designing the filter.
  
• View the schematics for all realizations directly in the schematic window.
  
• SmartComponents automatically provide the subcircuit for the filter.
  
• Automated Assistants for designing and verifying the performance.
  
• Sensitivity Analysis for varying filter response.
  
• Automatic transformation of lumped components into ideal transmission line elements.
  
• Transformation of lumped or ideal transmission line elements into microstrip elements. This requires a Passive Circuits DesignGuide license.
  

Product Description

Microwave Designers who need to synthesize and analyze a passive filter will find the Filter DesignGuide very useful.

The Filter DesignGuide provides SmartComponents and Automated-Assistants for the design, simulation, and performance analysis of common passive filters. SmartComponents are sub-network designs that can be placed into a schematic and contain the synthesized schematic of the filter. SmartComponents are included for filters, and matching networks (doubly terminated filters, singly terminated filters, bandpass transformers and matching networks).

Automated-assistants include:

• Filter Assistant - to generate and update a filter design from a given set of specifications.
  
• Matching Assistant - to generate and update a matching circuit or transformer design from a given set of specifications.
  
• Simulation Assistant - to simulate and analyze the resulting synthesized design.
  
• Sensitivity Assistant - to analyze the design sensitivities for +/- percent component tolerances.
  
• Display Assistant - to easily and quickly display the performance of a SmartComponent.
  

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Design Utilities

The following design utilities are installed automatically under the DesignGuides menu command in ADS:

• Smith Chart Utility
  
  
• Matching Utility
  

License Dependency Table

Click on the following link to see a table of dependencies that shows which simulator licenses are required for the various test benches in this DesignGuide:

• Filter DesignGuide License Dependency Table (PDF file, 4 KB)
  

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