Synthesis of <i>n</i>‐port resistive networks containing <i>2n</i> terminals

This paper is concerned with the realizability problem of n ‐port resistive networks that contain 2n terminals. A necessary and sufficient condition for any real symmetric matrix to be realizable as the admittance of an n ‐port resistive network containing 2n terminals is obtained. This condition is based on the existence of a parameter matrix. Furthermore, the values of the elements are expressed in terms of the entries of the admittance matrix and the parameter matrix. Finally, a numerical example is used to illustrate the results. Copyright © 2013 John Wiley &amp; Sons, Ltd.