his research aims at creating broadband tunable, fully integrated filters for the application of
cognitive radio and signal classification receivers. The approach under study is the N-path filter
technique which is capable of translating a baseband impedance to a reference frequency creating
a tunable filter. The traditional N-path filter suffers from fundamental architectural limitations,
namely : a trade-off between insertion loss and out-of-band rejection, reference clock feed-
through, and jammer power handling limitations. In the first approach, the fundamental trade-
off of the traditional N-path filter between insertion loss and out-of-band rejection is improved by
a transmission line (T-line) N-path filter technique.
