• DocumentCode
    1042924
  • Title

    Cochlea-Based RF Channelizing Filters

  • Author

    Galbraith, Christopher J. ; White, Robert D. ; Cheng, Lei ; Grosh, Karl ; Rebeiz, Gabriel M.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Comput. Sci., Univ. of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI
  • Volume
    55
  • Issue
    4
  • fYear
    2008
  • fDate
    5/1/2008 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    969
  • Lastpage
    979
  • Abstract
    A new type of contiguous-channel RF multiplexing filter has been developed. The filter topology is derived from an electrical-mechanical analogy of the mammalian cochlea, and this channelizer retains the desirable features of the cochlea including multiple-octave frequency coverage, a large number of output channels, and an enhanced high-order upper stop-band response. Results of two 20-channel, 20-90-MHz channelizer prototypes, one with constant fractional bandwidth channels and another with constant absolute bandwidth channels, are presented and agree well with theory.
  • Keywords
    band-stop filters; channel bank filters; ear; multiplexing equipment; radiofrequency filters; cochlea; contiguous-channel RF multiplexing filter; electrical-mechanical analogy; mammalian cochlea; multiple-octave frequency coverage; stop-band response; Channelizer; Cochlea, filter; channelizer; cochlea; filter; manifold; multi-plexer; multiplexer;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1549-8328
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/TCSI.2008.916537
  • Filename
    4436019