Beta Parameters

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It is customary in the wave digital filter literature to define the beta parameters as

$\displaystyle \fbox{$\displaystyle \beta_i \isdef \frac{2R_i}{\sum_{j=1}^N R_j}$} \protect$

(F.26)

where

are the port impedances (attached element reference impedances). In terms of the beta parameters, the force-wave series adaptor performs the following computations:

$\displaystyle v_J(n)$	$\displaystyle =$	$\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^N \beta_i v^{+}_i(n)\protect$	(F.27)
$\displaystyle v^{-}_i(n)$	$\displaystyle =$	$\displaystyle v_J(n) - v^{+}_i(n)\protect$	(F.28)

However, we normally employ a mixture of parallel and series adaptors, while keeping a force-wave simulation. Since $f^{{+}}_i(n) = R_i v^{+}_i(n)$ , we obtain, after a small amount of algebra, the following recipe for the series force-wave adaptor:

$\displaystyle f^{{+}}_J(n)$	$\displaystyle =$	$\displaystyle \sum_{i=1}^N f^{{+}}_i(n)\protect$	(F.29)
$\displaystyle f^{{-}}_i(n)$	$\displaystyle =$	$\displaystyle f^{{+}}_i(n) - \beta_if^{{+}}_J(n)\protect$	(F.30)