Unit Elements

The unit element two-port is simply a bidirectional delay line with half a sample delay in each direction. As a result, it really belongs under the topic of distributed modeling. To avoid delay-free loops, Fettweis noted [134] that every pair of adaptors must be separated by at least one unit element. More recently, this objective is accomplished instead using ``reflection-free ports'' [136] (see also §Q.2.2).

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written by Julius Orion Smith III
Julius Smith's background is in electrical engineering (BS Rice 1975, PhD Stanford 1983). He is presently Professor of Music and Associate Professor (by courtesy) of Electrical Engineering at Stanford's Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics (CCRMA), teaching courses and pursuing research related to signal processing applied to music and audio systems. See http://ccrma.stanford.edu/~jos/ for details.