TY - JOUR AB - An algorithm is presented for seed function combination selection for chained function filters on the basis of pre-defined manufacturing limitations. To this end, and for the first time, combinatorial analysismethods have been applied to computer-aided filter design routines. A fundamental Monte-Carlo margin has been discovered that represents an upper-bound on the worst-case pass-band return-loss responses that cannot be exceeded. This can be exploited to extend the state-of-the art in tuningless high-performance filterimplementations towards higher frequencies and smaller fractional bandwidths or, alternatively, to lower the accuracy and manufacturing cost for a given set of filter specifications. AU - Chrisostomidis,CE AU - Lucyszyn,S EP - 807 PY - 2010/// SP - 799 TI - Seed function combination selection for chained function filters UR - http://scitation.aip.org/getabs/servlet/GetabsServlet?prog=normal&id=IMAPCH000004000006000799000001&idtype=cvips&gifs=yes&ref=no VL - 5 ER -