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Communication Circuits

Boateng Joshuah Ofori


4120015
7th February, 2018.

Simulation of a High Pass Filter using the Advanced Design System

Introduction.

A high-pass filter (HPF) is an electronic filter that passes signals with a frequency higher than a certain cut
off frequency and attenuates signals with frequencies lower than the cut off frequency. The amount of
attenuation for each frequency depends on the filter design.

A very common application of this type of passive filter, is in audio amplifiers as a coupling capacitor
between two audio amplifier stages and in speaker systems to direct the higher frequency signals to the
smaller “tweeter” type speakers while blocking the lower bass signals or are also used as filters to reduce
any low frequency noise or “rumble” type distortion.

Figure 1: A schematic showing the high pass filter with input and output ports terminated
Figure 2: Equivalent circuit of the high pass filter

Simulation Results

In the filter design guide window, the following settings were made:
Simulation frequency sweep
Start: 0Hz
Stop: 2GHz
Step: 20MHz
Number of points: 101

Stop frequency: 300MHz


Pass frequency: 400MHZ
Order: 8
Doubly Terminated Highpass Filter Need Help? Please see the Filter DesignGuide User Manual
for complete instructions on using this Display Assistant. The Display
Display Assistant Assistant Chapter provides general-use instructions, and specifics
Filter DesignGuide for this Display Assistant are found in the component documentation.
M1
0
B A Fp Fs Ap As
Input Parameters 4.000E8 3.000E8 3.000 20.000
-50
PB Edge SB Edge Gain Dev (dB) Delay Dev (ns)
Performance 400.0 MHz 300.0 MHz 3.000 3.557
-100
S21 (dB)

F S11 (dB) S21 (dB) Delay (ns)


Marker M1
-150 2.00 GHz -111.87 -2.83E-11 0.08

Marker M2
1.00 GHz -63.69 -1.86E-6 0.35

-200
S21 PB Edge: Actual Passband Corner F: Frequency
Spec SB Edge: Actual Stopband Edge Fp: Passband Edge
Dev: Deviation in Passband Fs: Stopband Edge
-250 1/2: Input/Output Ports Ap: Atten at PB Edge or Ripple
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0 Spec: Frequency Specification As: Atten at SB Edge

f req, GHz
Magnified A->B
Passband Fp->
4.0E-9 0.000000 0
M2
3.5E-9 -0.000002

S21 (ILoss)

S21 (ILoss)
-1

3.0E-9 -0.000004
Delay (seconds)

-2
2.5E-9 -0.000006

2.0E-9 -0.000008 -3

0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0
1.5E-9
180 0

1.0E-9

S21 (Phase)
90 -100
S21 (Phase)

5.0E-10
0 -200

0.0
-90 -300
0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2.0

f req, GHz -180 -400

0.8 1.0 1.2 1.4 1.6 0.0 0.5 1.0 1.5 2.0

Figure 3: Graphs of the high pass filter obtained from simulation

Results and Discussion

A high pass filter is the exact opposite to the low pass filter. This filter has no output voltage from DC
(0Hz), up to a specified cut-off frequency also called the pass frequency( ƒp ) point. This lower cut-off
frequency point is 70.7% or -3dB (dB = -20log Vout/Vin) of the voltage gain allowed to pass.

The frequency range “below” this cut-off point ƒc is generally known as the Stop Band while the frequency
range “above” this cut-off point is generally known as the Pass Band.

From the equivalent circuit, it is observed that, at low frequencies, there will be no voltage sensed at the
output since the capacitor will have a very larger impedance closer to an open circuit while the inductor will
have a very low impedance. At frequencies above the pass frequency, the capacitor’s impedance become
low, while the inductor’s impedance increases. This allows voltage to be sensed at the output

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