This is cool. I actually sat down just today to start coding something that would help me automate my exploration of a tunable band-pass filter (or set of tunable filters which could be switched).
In my degree programme I did computer systems, not RF - but even this involved designing/building microwave amplifiers, playing with network analyzers and learning transmission line theory. I wish I could say that this work ~10 years ago has properly prepared me for the task but it seems I have many months of weekend study ahead of me...
In any case, even back then the RF students were generating pretty funky antenna designs out of modeling tools that ran for days sweeping through physical dimensions, numbers & types & topologies of elements, etc. to optimize toward some goal.
Analog Devices has a filter wizard[0] on their site, which can help to create filters using their components. It might fit your needs, or at least give you some idea of what might be required.
It's a cool tool of course, but I have an interesting set of spurs to filter out, and they're quite close to the carrier in some places, over quite a large frequency range. I have a set of fixed filters that mostly works, but the next design will need to more completely suppress these spurs over the entire range.
In my degree programme I did computer systems, not RF - but even this involved designing/building microwave amplifiers, playing with network analyzers and learning transmission line theory. I wish I could say that this work ~10 years ago has properly prepared me for the task but it seems I have many months of weekend study ahead of me...
In any case, even back then the RF students were generating pretty funky antenna designs out of modeling tools that ran for days sweeping through physical dimensions, numbers & types & topologies of elements, etc. to optimize toward some goal.