Abstract

Two of the main deficiencies in many of the amplifier synthesis techniques presently in use are that the non-unilateralness of the active devices used is ignored at some stage or other in the design process and that the designer is required to provide initial solutions to the problems he is trying to solve. These problems can be overcome to a large extent by using the concept of the "equivalent passive problem" and by doing intelligent systematic searches. The power of this approach is illustrated with a number of comparative examples.