A novel low-voltage low-power fully differential voltage and current gained CCII for floating impedance simulations
✍ Scribed by Andrea De Marcellis; Giuseppe Ferri; Nicola Carlo Guerrini; Giuseppe Scotti; Vincenzo Stornelli; Alessandro Trifiletti
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 578 KB
- Volume
- 40
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0026-2692
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✦ Synopsis
In this paper we present a new current-mode basic building block that we named voltage and current gained second generation current conveyor (VCG-CCII). The proposed active block allows to control and tune both the CCII current gain and the voltage gain through external control voltages. It has been designed, at transistor level in a standard CMOS technology (AMS 0.35 mm), with a low single supply voltage (2 V), as a fully differential active block. The proposed integrated solution, having both lowvoltage (LV) and low-power (LP) characteristics, can be applied with success in suitable IC applications such as floating capacitance multipliers and floating inductance simulators, utilizing a minimum number of active components (one and two, respectively). Simulation results, related to floating impedance simulators, are in good agreement with the theoretical expectations.