High input impedance voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter using two OTAs and one CCII

A three-input and single-output voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter with high input impedance, using only two operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs), one plus-type second-generation current conveyor (CCII) and two capacitors, is presented. The proposed circuit can realize all the standard filter responses, that is, highpass, bandpass, lowpass, notch and allpass filters, from the same configuration. The proposed circuit has no requirements for component matching conditions.     

Universal active current filter with three inputs and one outputusing plus-type CCIIs

A universal active current filter with three inputs and one output employing only plus-type second-generation current conveyers (CCII+s) is presented. The circuit offers the following advantageous features: orthogonal control of ω_u and Q with one grounded resistor and one virtual grounded resistor, use of grounded capacitors ideal for integration, no requirement of cancellation constraints in realising the lowpass, bandpass, highpass and notch filter responses, low passive sensitivities, high output impedance and simpler configuration due to the use of only plus-type CCIIs     

High-Input and Low-Output Impedance Voltage-Mode Universal Biquadratic Filter Using DDCCs

A new three inputs and single output voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter with high-input and low-output impedance using three plus-type differential difference current conveyors, two grounded capacitors and two grounded resistors is presented. The proposed circuit offers the following features: realization of all the standard filter functions, that is, high-pass, bandpass, low-pass, notch, and all-pass filters, no requirements for component matching conditions, the use of only grounded capacitors and resistors, high-input and low-output impedance and low active and passive sensitivities.     

Universal filter using plus-type CCIIs

A universal second-order filter circuit with voltage gain using only plus-type current conveyors (CCIIs) is presented. The circuit offers several advantages, such as high input impedance, low filter sensitivities to passive elements, use of grounded capacitors and independent control of ω₀, Q and voltage gain with separate grounded resistors. The use of only one type (plus-type or minus-type) of CCII simplifies the configuration     

High Input Impedance Voltage-Mode Universal Biquadratic Filter with Three Inputs Using DDCCs

A new high input impedance voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter with three input terminals and five output terminals is presented. The proposed circuit uses three plus-type differential difference current conveyors, two grounded resistors and two grounded capacitors. The proposed circuit can realize all the standard filter functions: lowpass, bandpass, highpass, notch and allpass, without component matching conditions. The proposed circuit offers the features of high input impedance, low active and passive sensitivities and the use of only grounded resistors and capacitors.     

High Input Impedance Voltage-Mode Universal Biquadratic Filter with Three Inputs and Six Outputs Using Three DDCCs

A new high input impedance voltage-mode universal biquadratic filter with three input terminals and six output terminals is presented. The proposed circuit uses three plus-type differential difference current conveyors (DDCCs), three resistors, and two grounded capacitors. The proposed circuit can realize all the standard filter functions, namely, lowpass, bandpass, highpass, notch, and allpass, simultaneously, without component matching conditions. The proposed circuit still offers the features of high input impedance, using only grounded capacitors, and orthogonal controllability of resonance angular frequency and quality factor.     

Realisation of voltage-mode biquads using CCIIs

A method for realising biquadratic transfer functions using current conveyors (CCIIs) is presented, and two novel networks which realise the general second-order transfer function are given. The networks are composed of solely plus-type CCIIs with grounded capacitors, and offer high input impedances.<>     

Voltage-mode FDCCII-based universal filters

Three new voltage-mode universal biquadratic filters configuration are proposed. The first proposed high-input impedance universal filter with single input and five outputs, which can simultaneously realize voltage-mode lowpass (LP), bandpass (BP), highpass (HP), bandstop (BS) and allpass (AP) filter responses employing all grounded passive components. The second proposed high-input impedance universal filter with three input and single output, which also can realize all the standard filter functions without requiring any inverting input voltage signal. The third proposed universal filter with three inputs and five outputs, which can be used as either a three-input single-output or a two-input five-output universal filter. Moreover, each of the proposed circuits still enjoys (i) the employment of only grounded capacitors, and (ii) no requirement with the component choice conditions to realize specific filtering functions.     

All-Grounded Passive Elements Voltage-Mode DVCC-Based Universal Filters

In this paper two new voltage-mode (VM) universal filters employing three plus-type differential voltage current conveyors (DVCC+s) and grounded passive elements are presented. The first proposed filter is a single-input five-output (SIFO) circuit which can realize simultaneously all of the standard responses, i.e. low-pass (LP), band-pass (BP), high-pass (HP), all-pass (AP) and notch (NH) from the same configuration. The second proposed circuit is a three-input single-output (TISO) universal filter for realizing standard responses depending on the selection of the input signal from the same topology. Both of the proposed filters have the advantage of a high input impedance, which enables easy cascading to obtain higher order filters. The proposed filters are simulated using the SPICE program to verify the theoretical analysis.     

High output impedance current-mode universal biquadratic filters with five inputs using multi-output CCIIs

Three current-mode universal biquadratic filters each with five input terminals and one output terminal are presented. The first proposed circuit uses three multi-output second-generation current conveyors, two grounded capacitors and three resistors. This circuit offers the following advantageous features: orthogonal controllability of resonance angular frequency and quality factor, high output impedance, the versatility to synthesize all standard filter types without component matching condition and using grounded capacitors. The second proposed circuit uses three multi-output second-generation current conveyors, two grounded capacitors and two resistors. This circuit offers the following advantageous features: using minimum passive components, high output impedance, the versatility to synthesize all standard filter types without component matching condition and using grounded capacitors. The third proposed circuit uses three multi-output second-generation current conveyors, two grounded capacitors and three grounded resistors. This circuit offers the following advantageous features: the versatility to synthesize all standard filter types, high output impedance and using only grounded passive components. Each of the proposed circuits can get five kinds of filter functions by using only one current input signal.     

Current conveyor-based voltage-mode two-phase and four-phase quadrature oscillators

A voltage mode two-phase quadrature oscillator using plus-type second generation current conveyors [CCIIs(+)] is realized by using a simple technique. The basic building block for this technique is a voltage mode non-inverting band-pass filter. The two-phase quadrature oscillator is then transformed into a four-phase quadrature oscillator by replacing the two CCIIs(+) by two dual output, current conveyors [DO-CCIIs]. The proposed circuits enjoy attractive features such as use of grounded passive components, independent frequency control, outputs of almost equal magnitude and low sensitivity figures. Both the oscillator circuits are designed and verified using PSPICE simulation.     

Universal filter with three inputs using CCII+

A voltage-mode universal filter with three inputs and one output using only plus-type current conveyors (CCII+) is presented. This circuit uses three CCII+s, three resistors and a minimum number of capacitors. It has low sensitivity, low output impedance and low component spread. The use of only CCII+s simplifies the configuration     

Realization of Universal Active Complex Filter Using CCIIs and CFCCIIs

In this paper, two universal building blocks for complex filter using CCIIs, CFCCIIs, grounded resistors and grounded capacitors are presented. These can be used to realize various complex bandpass filters with arbitrary order. The paper shows that the response error of the proposed circuit caused by nonideality of active components is more easily compensated than that of the conventional one employing op-amps, and that the sensitivities for all components are relatively small. Experimental results are used for verifying the validity of the proposed circuits.     

Signal limitations of the current-mode filters employing current conveyors

It is well known that second-generation current conveyors (CCII) are widely used for the realization of second-order current-mode universal filters. A filter with high-quality factor (Q) and gain constant (K) suffers from various signal swing restrictions especially at its angular resonance frequency (ω₀). This is due to the terminal voltages of the CCIIs limited by the power supply voltages and maximum allowable terminal currents of the CCIIs. In this paper, signal limitations of the CCII-based current-mode filters are investigated in detail. A filter example is given to exhibit the signal limitations of a universal current-mode filter. The time-domain and frequency-domain results of the proposed filter are also given to verify the theoretical analysis.     

A new approach for the realization of voltage-mode second-order universal filters using current conveyors

In this work two different types of topologies are derived for realization any second-order filter characteristic by choosing properly, the admittances of passive elements. These topologies use two second-generation current conveyors (CCIIs). One of the topologies involves different types of CCIIs whereas the other uses the same type of CCIIs together with a unity gain voltage buffer. The buffer used provides not only low output impedance but also facilitates cascading of the filter circuits thus obtained. It is possible to derive many different filters realizing any second-order transfer function by the use of the proposed topologies. Moreover, the produced filters have low-sensitivity performance and permit orthogonal controlling of both the quality factor and the natural angular frequency.     

A power efficient continuous time ΔΣ modulator with 15 MHz bandwidth and 70 dB dynamic range

A state variable block diagram method is given for the realization of universal biquadratic transfer functions employing second-generation current-controlled conveyors (CCCIIs). Using minimum number of passive components and properly adjusting the bias currents of CCCIIs, the proposed circuits can realize all the tunable frequency standard filter functions: high-pass, band-pass, low-pass, notch-pass, and all-pass by choosing appropriate input branches without changing the passive elements. These presented circuits are in current-mode and voltage-mode separately. The non-ideality analyses of these configurations are given. Additionally, a high-order low-pass filter derived from the proposed voltage-mode biquadratic filter is introduced. PSPICE simulation results are included to verify the theory.     

Current-Mode Universal Biquadratic Filter with Five Inputs and Two Outputs Using Two Multi-Output CCIIs

A current-mode universal biquadratic filter with five input terminals and two output terminals is presented. The proposed circuit uses two multi-output second generation current conveyors, two grounded capacitors and three resistors. The new circuit offers the following advantages: use of the minimum number of active components, orthogonal controllability of resonance angular frequency and quality factor, use of grounded capacitors and the versatility to synthesize any type of active filter transfer functions.     

Design of high-order active filters in integrated circuits

This correspondence considers the design of high-order filters using follow-the-leader feedback configurations and active-R biquadratic blocks. Statistical sensitivities of various second-order active-R and active-RC sections are compared, and experimental results of a sixth-order Butterworth bandpass filter are also included. The FLF configuration and versatile active-R blocks are also suitable for fully integrated filters.     

Second Order Band-Pass Filter Design Using Single CC-CDBA

Six new second order band-pass filter configurations using only a single current-controlled current differencing buffered amplifier (CC-CDBA) are proposed. Further, the proposed filters also have a minimum number of external electronic components. They realize current-mode, voltage-mode and transadmittance-mode filter characteristics. The quality factor and natural frequency can be adjusted electronically without changing the values of the passive components. The proposed filters use a minimum number of passive elements (two or three). There is no second order active filter structure which uses two passive components and one active component in the literature. The validity of the proposed filters is verified through PSpice simulations.     

Voltage mode universal filters employing single FDCCII

In this paper, four new voltage-mode universal biquad filters configuration are proposed. First of two circuits proposed high-input impedance universal filter with single-input and three-outputs, which can simultaneously realize voltage mode low-pass, band-pass and high-pass filter responses employing all grounded passive components. The third proposed universal filter three-input and single-output, which also can realize all the standard filter functions. The fourth circuit proposed universal filter with three-input and five-outputs, which can be used as either a three-inputs single-output or a two-inputs five-outputs universal filters. It can realize all five different generic filtering signals: low-pass, band-pass, high-pass, band-stop and all-pass. Simulation results are given to confirm the theoretical analysis. The proposed biquad filters are simulated using TSMC CMOS 0.35 μm technology.