BEEE203L
CIRCUIT
THEORY
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MODULE – VII
TWO PORT NETWORKS
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Open circuit impedance parameters
Short circuit admittance parameters
Transmission parameters
Hybrid parameters
Relationship between parameter sets
Interconnection of two port networks
Interconnection of 2-port networks
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There are various types of interconnections possible for two-
port networks, namely, cascade, parallel, series, series-parallel
and parallel-series.
We will concentrate on the relation between the input and
output quantities of the cascaded, series and parallel two-port
networks only.
Cascaded connection
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In the cascade connection, the output port of the first network becomes the input
port of the second network. Since it is assumed that input and output currents
are positive when they enter the network, we have
I1 ′ = – I 2
The ABCD parameters for the two networks are
From the diagram, V1b = V2a and I1′ = – I2 , Substituting this in the matrix we get
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So
If
Then
Or
Series connection
7 In a series connection, both the networks carry, the same input current and their output currents are also
equal.
In this resultant Z-parameter matrix for the series-connected networks is the sum of Z matrices of each
individual two-port network.
For network Na
8 ,
For network Nb
Also the currents are equal i.e
For the combined network
So for the combined network, the Z parameters are
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And hence
Or for series network
Parallel connection
10 In the parallel connection, the two networks have the same input voltages
and the same output voltages
This can be redrawn as
For network Na
11 ,
For network Nb
Also the Voltages are equal and the total current is the sum of individual currents, i.e
For the combined network
So for the combined network, the Y parameters are
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And hence
Or for parallel network
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Three ways that two ports are
interconnected:
ABCD parameters
* Cascade Ta Tb T Ta Tb
Z parameters
z za zb
za
* Series
zb
ya Y parameters
* Parallel
yb
y ya yb
Problems
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P.7.21 Find the transmission parameters for the cascaded two-ports shown in
Fig.
P.7.22 Obtain z parameter presentation of the circuit in Fig.
4 2 2 1
[Z ] [Z a ] [Zb ]
2 1 2 1
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P.7.23 Obtain y parameter presentation of the circuit in Fig.
2 1 1
1
[Y ] [Ya ] [Yb ] 3 2 3 S
1 1 2
1
2 3 3