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The inverse ultraspherical filter is derived and its properties analyzed. It is shown that the inverse ultraspherical filter has smaller transition band than the inverse Chebyshev filter under certain circumstances while still maintaining the maximally flat passband characteristic. Filter pole and zero calculations are described and typical magnitude and delay responses generated. Nomographs of inverse ultraspherical filters are also provided for determining filter order and for possible magnitude response optimization.
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Celestino A. Corral was born in Havana, Cuba. He earned his Bachelor’s, Master’s and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Miami, Florida, in 1985, 1987, and 1993, respectively. He completed his Ph.D. program under a Patricia Roberts Harris fellowship. From 1988 to 1990 Dr. Corral was a Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New Mexico, where he was involved in the analysis, modeling, and design of custom circuits for piezoelectric sensor components. In 1994, he joined Scientific-Atlanta in Atlanta, Georgia, as an Associate Staff RF Engineer and worked on communication systems and specialized microwave software. In 1997 he was Senior Design Engineer at Origin Data Systems in Boca Raton, Florida, where he had multiple roles in system, hardware, and software development for a novel asset management/RFID system. Currently, Dr. Corral is a Distinguished Member of the Technical Staff in Motorola Labs, Plantation, Florida, and is involved in ultra-wideband, wideband, and propagation research. His interests include circuit and filter theory, communication systems, numerical analysis, signal processing, and constrained optimization. He has published over twenty-five journal and conference papers, has six patents filed, and two trade secrets.
Dr. Corral was principal recipient of the Myril B. Reed Best Paper Award for the 40th Midwest Symposium on Circuits and Systems in 1997. Dr. Corral is also the principal recipient of the Ambrose Fleming Premium for IEE Proceedings on Circuits, Devices, and Systems, 2000. Dr. Corral is a Senior Member of IEEE and a member of Omicron Delta Kappa, Tau Beta Pi, and Eta Kappa Nu honor societies.
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Corral, C.A. Inverse Ultraspherical Filters. Analog Integr Circ Sig Process 42, 147–159 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-005-5750-4
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