Cluster University M.Sc Physics Sem 4 Design and Analysis of Active Filters Syllabus

CLUSTER UNIVERSITY SRINAGAR,
KASHMIR SYLLABUS– M.Sc. PHYSICS
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SEMESTER IV
Design and Analysis of Active Filters
Course No: PHY17-409DCE Max. Marks: 50
Duration of Examination: 2:30 Hrs. External Examination: 40
No. of credits: 02 Internal Assessment: 10


UNIT – I
Analog signal processing: Scope and objectives, signals, operations on signals, signal symmetry, harmonic
signals and sinusoids, commonly encountered signals, the impulse function, the doublet, moments and
numericals/ problems, analog filters. Filter Approximation Models and Sensitivity Analysis
Introduction to Analog filter theory, filter approximations, Butterworth approximation,
Chebyshev approximation, Bessel filters, frequency transformations, lowpass-lowpass, low pass- highpass, lowpass-bandpass and low-pass - band reject transformations.


Unit II:
Operational Transconductance Amplifiers, Sensitivity and Active filter Synthesis Operational
Transconductance Amplifier (OTA), Circuit Descriptions of OTA, Advantages, limitations.
Elementary Transconductor Building Blocks: Resistor, Integrator, Amplifier, summers, gyrators
and Modulators. First and Second order Filters, High-order filters, Sensitivity study, Sensitivity
function, magnitude and pass sensitivities, single parameter sensitivity, multiple parameter
sensitivity. Cascade approach, Simulated Inductance Approach, Operational Simulation of LC
ladders and FDNR approach. Immitance converters and inverters, Generalized Impedance
converter.

Text Book:
1 Analog Filters Kendall Su; Second Edition, Kluwer Academic publishers.2002
2. Design and Analysis of Analog Filters:A signal Processing Perspective. Kluwer Academic
Publishers.2003
3. Analog Filter Design.M E Van Valkenberg and Rolf Schumann; Oxford University Press.2005.