Degree, ripple, and transition width of elliptic filters

Simple analytic formulas inverting the degree education in both analog and digital equiripple filter approximations are presented. The inversion of the degree equation which is usually expressed as a ratio of theta functions, known in classical mathematics as a modular equation, is obtained in form of a finite product of Jacobian functions. From the numerical point of view it allows the recalculation of the parameters which control the optimization using an efficient arithmetic-geometric-mean procedure only. For the evaluation of k/sub 1/ from n and K (k', respectively) the zeros of the characteristic function are used and no additional computation is required. >