Current Mode Universal Filter Using Single Current Controlled Differential Difference Current Conveyor Transconductance Amplifier

Ajay Kumar Kushwaha, Sajal K. Paul^*

Department of Electronics Engineering, Indian School of Mines, Dhanbad, India.

DOI: 10.4236/cs.2015.610023                

Abstract

This research paper contains a new electronically tunable current-mode biquadratic universal filter using a new active building block; current controlled differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCDDCCTA). The proposed filter provides the following important and desirable features: (i) One can use only one CCDDCCTA and two capacitors; (ii) One can get low pass (LP), band pass (BP), high pass (HP), notch (NF) and all pass (AP) current responses from the same configuration without any alteration; (iii) Passive components are grounded, which ease the integrated circuit implementation; (iv) Responses are electronically tunable; and (v) Sensitivity is low. Moreover, the non-ideality analysis shows that the parasitic passive components can be compensated for the proposed circuit. The functionality of the design is verified through SPICE simulations using 0.25 μm CMOS TSMC technology process parameters. Simulation result agrees well with the theoretical analysis.

Keywords

Current Mode Analog Filter, Universal Filter, Current Controlled Differential Difference Current Conveyor Transconductance Amplifier (CCDDCCTA), Monte-Carlo Analysis

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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