Using scikit-rf to Evaluate Filter Performance
At Knowles Precision Devices, we truly do love all things RF. While we are focused on using our expertise in ceramics and thin film manufacturing to innovate on our high-performance filters, our engineers also enjoy keeping up with the trends impacting the entire RF “ecosystem.” This includes dedicating time to experimenting with open source RF software modeling and analysis tools, such as scikit-rf, that we think could be useful for non-design engineers that want to experiment with filters and plotting data
In this white paper, we share what we have learned about working with scikit-rf to see how “good” a filter’s performance is without consulting a design engineer and using their time- and computation-intensive software. We also walk you through our suggestions for how to get started with scikit-rf and show you the details on a variety of example analyses we performed on one of our bandpass filters based on the publicly available S-parameter file for it.
Download this white paper to learn more about the following:
- Our best practices for getting started with scikit-rf
- The different ways to evaluate filter performance with scikit-rf using publicly available S-parameter files
- How a more complex cascading filter analysis performed with scikit-rf compares to using a more advanced platform such as Genesys