The AWR Design Environment provides strong capabilities for designing and evaluating differential filters. The application note explains the process of designing differential filters and provides insight into the benefits of the MMCONV component when measuring common and differential modes. Topics in the application note include: iFilter Design: Low-pass filter, High-pass filter, Band-pass filter, and Band-stop filter Convert single-ended filters into differential filters Measurement techniques including common-mode and differential mode, common mode rejection ratio (CMRR), and Mixed-mode converter (MMCONV) Layout/design considerations and EM simulation Optimization and yield analysis This application note can be found using this link: support.cadence.com/.../ArticleAttachmentPortal

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New Application Note: Differential Filter Design Using AWR Design Environment

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The AWR Design Environment provides strong capabilities for designing and evaluating differential filters. The application note explains the process of designing differential filters and provides insight into the benefits of the MMCONV component when measuring common and differential modes.

Topics in the application note include:

iFilter Design: Low-pass filter, High-pass filter, Band-pass filter, and Band-stop filter
Convert single-ended filters into differential filters
Measurement techniques including common-mode and differential mode, common mode rejection ratio (CMRR), and Mixed-mode converter (MMCONV)
Layout/design considerations and EM simulation
Optimization and yield analysis

This application note can be found using this link: support.cadence.com/.../ArticleAttachmentPortal

0 Frank Wiedmann 4 months ago

Is MMCONV identical to the ideal_balun described in https://designers-guide.org/analysis/diff.pdf ?
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0 OscPn 4 months ago in reply to Frank Wiedmann

MMCONV is a closed form model, this model is commonly used for differential circuit analysis but can also be used as an ideal power combiner/splitter (with an impedance transform) or magic-tee (with an impedance transform).
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0 Frank Wiedmann 4 months ago in reply to OscPn

This does not really answer my question (and is just a quote from https://support.cadence.com/apex/techpubDocViewerPage?path=awrMWOElements/awrMWOElements24.1_ISR2/Mixed-Mode_Converter__Closed_Form___MMCONV.html ).
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0 OscPn 4 months ago in reply to Frank Wiedmann

Yes. MMCONV is identical to that ideal balun. If you map the equations from page 3 of diff.pdf to those in the MWO_Element catalog for MMCONV, they are identical.
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