High-performance current differencing transconductance amplifier and its application in precision current-mode rectification

A CMOS-based circuit for realization of high-performance current differencing transconductance amplifier (CDTA) is demonstrated. The proposed circuit offers the advantages of a wide frequency bandwidth and very small input terminal impedance. The results of circuit simulations and an application example are given to illustrate the advantages of the proposed circuit for precise high-frequency signal rectification.     

Voltage difference transresistance amplifier and its application: floating FDNR simulator circuit

In this article, a new active building component with electronically tunable transresistive block, voltage difference transresistance amplifier, and its floating frequency dependent negative resistor simulator circuit application is presented. The simulator circuit is shown to operate using single active building block with two grounded passive components, to be electronically tunable over its value which is controlled by an independent current source, not to require any conditions of component matching and to have good sensitivity performance with respect to tracking errors. To examine functionality of the design, a CRD band-pass filter example is given.

Numerous simulation program with integrated circuit emphasis (SPICE) simulations are performed and depicted through the article to verify validity of the study. Taiwan semiconductor manufacturing company (TSMC) 0.18 µm complementary metal oxide semiconductor technology parameters are used through simulations.     

基于CDBA的电流模式多功能滤波器

文章提出了一种由电流差分缓冲放大器（CDBA）实现的两种电流模式多功能双二次滤波器，该滤波器具有可实现多种滤波功能、能独立地调节ω0和Q、灵敏度较低等特点。     

电流模式N阶CDBA-RC通用滤波器的系统设计

该文提出了利用电流差分缓冲放大器CDBA(the Current Differencing Buffered Amplifier)实现n阶电流模式滤波器的方法。基于信号流图给出了系统的设计公式,并举例设计了5阶Butterworth低通、高通及4阶Butterworth带通滤波器。PSPICE仿真表明,结果与理论分析完全吻合。该滤波器不仅电路结构简单,而且用的元件数目很少。     

Realization of multiple-output biquadratic filters using current differencing buffered amplifiers

In this paper, multiple-output multifunctional biquadratic filters using current differencing buffered amplifiers (CDBAs) as active elements are presented. The proposed circuit configuration is mainly composed of the CDBA-based cross-coupled feedback configuration and the simple CDBA-based voltage substractor. By an appropriate choice of virtually grounded passive components, the configuration can simultaneously realize lowpass, highpass, bandpass, bandstop and allpass voltage transfer functions, all at low resistance outputs. The natural angular frequency and the quality factor can orthogonally controllable. Experimental results verifying the theoretical analysis are also given.     

Generalized admittance matrix models of OTRAs and COAs

This paper proposes new admittance matrix models to approach the behavior of fully-differential Operational Transresistance Amplifiers (OTRAs) and Current Operational Amplifiers (COAs). The infinity-variables method is used in order to derive the new generalized models. As a consequence, standard nodal analysis being improved to compute fully-symbolic small-signal characteristics of fully-differential analog circuits.     

一种适合带通/宽带滤波器的新型电流差放大器

介绍了一种具有双端电流电流输出的电流差大器的新型结构，应用这种电流差放大器，在实现处理电流的一附规范全通滤波器的基础上，导出了新型电流模式高Q值二阶带通滤波器和宽带滤波器。其中，高Q值带通滤波器不受元件匹配条件的约束，调节Q值时不影响中心频率f0。上述电路的PSPICE仿真结果与理论分析相互吻合。     

Realization of electronically tunable voltage-mode/current-mode quadrature sinusoidal oscillator using ZC-CG-CDBA

This paper presents a first of its kind canonic realization of active RC (ARC) sinusoidal oscillator with non-interactive/independent tuning laws, which simultaneously provides buffered quadrature voltage outputs and explicit quadrature current outputs. The proposed circuit is created using a new active building block, namely the Z-copy controlled-gain current differencing buffered amplifier (ZC-CG-CDBA). The circuit uses three resistors and two grounded capacitors, and provides independent/non-interactive control of the condition of oscillation (CO) and the frequency of oscillation (FO) by means of different resistors. Other advantageous features of the circuit are the inherent electronic tunability of the FO via controlling current gains of the active elements and the suitability to be employed as a low-frequency oscillator. A non-ideal analysis of the circuit is carried out and experimental results verifying the workability of the proposed circuit are included.     

High-speed CMOS unity-gain current amplifier

A high-performance CMOS unity-gain current amplifier is proposed. The solution adopts two feedback loops to reduce the input resistance and a nested-Miller technique to provide frequency compensation. A design example using a 0.8 μm process and a 2 V supply is given and SPICE simulations show a bandwidth of 75 MHz, no slew-rate limitations and a settling time better than 50 ns, irrespective of the current amplitude. Input and output resistances are better than 0.1 Ω and 15 MΩ, respectively. The input-referred white noise spectral density is .     

一种快速、低压的电流灵敏放大器的设计

提出了一种快速和低工作电压的非挥发性存储器的电流灵敏放大器。该电路采用自控恒流预充电路提高灵敏放大器的放大速度。TSMC的0．18μm模型库的HSPICE仿真结果表明，电路在-40℃～125℃范围内有快速的读取速度，在1V工作电压和室温下，电路的读取时间是33ns。     

High slew rate current mode transconductance error amplifier for low quiescent current output-capacitorless CMOS LDO regulator

This paper presents a CMOS low quiescent current output-capacitorless low-dropout regulator (LDO) based on a high slew rate current mode transconductance amplifier (CTA) as error amplifier. Using local common-mode feedback (LCMFB) in the proposed CTA, the order of transfer characteristic of the circuit is increased. Therefore, the slew rate at the gate of pass transistor is enhanced. This improves the LDO load transient characteristic even at low quiescent current. The proposed LDO topology has been designed and post simulated in HSPICE in a 0.18 µm CMOS process to supply the load current between 0 and 100 mA. The dropout voltage of the LDO is set to 200 mV for 1.2–2 V input voltage. Post-layout simulation results reveal that the proposed LDO is stable without any internal compensation strategy and with on-chip output capacitor or lumped parasitic capacitances at the output node between 10 and 100 pF. The total quiescent current of the LDO including the current consumed by the reference buffer circuit is only 3.7 µA. A final benchmark comparison considering all relevant performance metrics is presented.     

基于运放的电流模式六阶低通全集成新型滤波器

本文提出了以运算放大器为基础的一种新型电流模式ＭＯＳＦＥＴ－Ｃ全集成精确连续时间平衡结构六阶低通滤波器电路。并应用ＰＳＰＩＣＥ通用模拟电路程序，对其幅频特性和相频特性进行了计算机仿真分析，得出了几点实用的结论。