DEVELOPMENT OF GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACE FOR MICROWAVE FILTER DESIGN

Microwave filters play a sterling role in wireless communication systems and
they are used to discriminate between wanted and unwanted signal frequencies.
Designing microwave filter is a long process in going from the given specification
through the synthesis and simulation to the final prototype. However, due to the
unavailability of synthesized theoretical values of reactive elements in the market,
the result may disagree with the expected output.
Moreover, the existing software tools cover only conventional filter topologies;
modern microwave filter topologies such as Ultra Wideband (UWB) filter are not yet
incorporated into these software tools. In addition, they are costly and not easy to
use