Genesys Products - M/Filter Synthesis Module

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Genesys M/Filter Synthesis is a versatile, interactive tool that creates high-performance distributed-element filters to your specifications, making microwave engineers of all skill levels more productive, and allowing system architects to assess "Make or Buy" decisions to save cost.

Genesys M/Filter Synthesis is a distributed-element microwave companion to the lumped-element Filter Synthesis module. It performs several essential functions.

• Creates distributed-element filters, in both schematic and layout, ready for use in the Genesys environment, including substrate and tunable variables (figure 4)
• Evaluate different filter types for board area, performance as fast as you can hit the "down" button on your keyboard!
• Synthesize to ideal transmission lines, or, choose a substrate and implement directly into 13 different process types
• Optimize the performance directly from the synthesis window
• Integrates well with Momentum GX (EM) and Spectrasys (system) simulators

M/Filter Synthesis is deceptively easy to use, and provides over 60 physical filter topologies, with support for user-defined topologies. With free integration of the W1508L Advanced Transmission Line Synthesis module, these filter topologies can be implemented directly in one of 13 different technologies (figure 1) using a library of 100's of commercial substrates (figure 2).

• 4 filter types (Lowpass, Highpass, Bandpass, Bandstop)
• 5 filter shapes for each filter type (Butterworth, Chebyshev, Bessel, Singly Equalized, and user-defined)
• Up to 8 topologies for each filter type (stepped, stub, hairpin, combine, edge-coupled, and many more).
• Approximately 60 built-in topologies, plus support for user-defined filter types.

Integrated with RF design flows of all sizes

Furthermore, Genesys M/Filter Synthesis gives you a working schematic with pre-defined simulations, variables, layouts, and graphs. You can optimize the filter performance directly from the M/Filter synthesis window (bottom of figure 3). Since you have the full capabilities of the Genesys Core environment, you can optimize the schematic, substitute SMT library parts for ideal components, perform yield analysis, import and compare measured S-parameters, and export a mask to a board shop, to an enterprise EDA tool for inclusion in a larger design, or to a rapid prototyping machine.

In most cases, the cost of Genesys Core with M/Filter Synthesis is also much less than a hardware prototyping machine and its hardware maintenance. Therefore, no rapid prototyping system for RF engineers is really complete without access to a seat of the Genesys software.

Users of non-Agilent EDA platforms, as well as Agilent ADS, will be pleased to know that Genesys Core with M/Filter Synthesis is affordable, and can augment any design flow. In fact, Genesys Synthesis modules have been packaged for direct integration with ADS as part of the W1421 and W1422 bundles.

Tightly integrated with other Genesys tools

Unlike standalone synthesis utilities and homebrewed tools, M/Filter is tightly integrated within Genesys, and functions directly with other Genesys tools.

For example, M/Filter Synthesis works with the Momentum GX EM simulator, if that simulator is available (top of figure 3), by preparing the substrate definition, and adding EM ports to the layout. M/Filter Synthesis is also fully integrated with the Spectrasys system simulator (figure 5). This allows RF system architects to quickly synthesize a behavioral filter into a physical realization, to assess the effect of imperfect filter performance, out of band impedance mismatch, and board area on system performance and cost. M/Filter Synthesis also takes advantage of the W1508L Advanced TLine Synthesis capability (figure 1), to assist with fast, physical realizations.

Affordable and versatile

Genesys M/Filter Synthesis is affordable and easy to use, making it an ideal personal productivity tool, as well as a high-performance microwave filter application that can add value to a number of physical design flows.

It creates high-performance distributed filters that be can customized for RF Boards, embedded LTCC substrates, MMIC, and other applications where transmission lines and ideal components can be realized as physical structures. Engineers of every skill level can use M/Filter Synthesis to quickly move a printed design to a production environment.

W1502L M/Filter Synthesis is bundled with these products

• W1503 S/Filter Synthesis
  W1503 S/Filter Synthesis includes W1501 Filter Synthesis, W1502 M/Filter Synthesis, and adds additional capability not otherwise available.
• Design bundles
  W1502L M/Filter Synthesis is included in our major design bundles,
• W1411 Designer Pro
• W1418 Genesys Integrated
• W1421 Genesys Synthesis for ADS
• W1422 RF Architect for ADS
• Support-only bundles W1403, W1404, W1405, W1406, W1412, W1413, W1414

W1502L M/Filter Synthesis interacts with other modules

• Genesys Core
  The W1502 M/Filter Syntheis module only depends the presence of W1410L Genesys Core.
• Synthesis and Simulation Modules
  W1502L M/Filter Synthesis works especially well with
• W1508L Advanced T/Line Synthesis
• W1601L Spectrasys
• W1610L Momentum GX

Online Demos and Tutorials

• M/Filter Synthesis - May 2007