© 2009 Apinunt Thanachayanont et al. 243 ABSTRACT⎯A novel ultra-low-power readout circuit for a pH-sensitive ion-sensitive field-effect transistor (ISFET) is proposed. It uses an ISFET/reference FET (REFET) differential pair operating in weak-inversion and a simple current-mode metal-oxide semiconductor FET (MOSFET) translinear circuit. Simulation results verify that the circuit operates with e...

In this paper the current mode approach called “Current Conveyor (CCII+)” has been incorporated to design and simulate the circuit for producing two amplitude matched anti-phase sine waveforms which are frequently used in various communication and instrumentation systems. PSpice simulation has been used to depict the output waveforms. The power supply used is ±2.5 V which can be easily incorpor...

The paper presents a new voltage-mode universal filter using a differential voltage current conveyor transconductance amplifier (DVCCTA). It has three inputs and single output. The proposed circuit can simultaneously realize low-pass, band-pass, and high pass, band reject and all pass filter functions without changing the circuit topology and passive elements. The circuit exhibits a good freque...

The realization of current-mode quadrature oscillators using current controlled current conveyor transconductance amplifiers (CCCCTAs) and grounded capacitors is presented. The proposed oscillators can provide 2 sinusoidal output currents with 90o phase difference. It is enabled non-interactive dual-current control for both the condition of oscillation and the frequency of oscillation. High out...

In this paper, a quadrature phase shifter is presented. Due to operation in current-mode, the proposed circuit provides a wide frequency response, a low supply voltage, low power consumption and electronic controllability. Thus, it is very suitable for use in portable and battery-powered equipment such as hearing aid instrument and wireless radio device. The proposed quadrature phase shifter co...

Most low noise amplifier designs focus on eliminating sources of noise that are intrinsic to the amplifier (thennal noise, Ilfnoise). As integrated drcuit design moves increasingly towards mixed signal implementations, the design of low-noise analog amplifiers must be re...evaluated to consider the switching noise generated by on-<:hip digital circuitry. We designed three fully differential ver...

Driving mode of MEMS (Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems) Vibratory Gyroscope is discussed in the paper. We analyze the closed-loop circuit of MEMS gyroscope from two aspects of amplitude fixed and frequency locking. In the amplitude fixed circuit, Automatic Gain Control (AGC) circuit is employed to update the amplitude of the driving force, together with a PI controller to improve the accuracy a...

A Novel circuit configuration for realizing multi-output four-terminal floating nullor in biopolar monolithic integrated circuit form is described. The circuit is simple and based on the use of an improved translinear cell type circuit, which provide wide bandwidth and dynamic range. The characteristics of this circuit are confirmed by HSPICE simulation results. The performance of the FTFN-base...