Current mode charge sensitive amplifier (CSA) topology and related methodology for use as pre-amplification block in radiation detection read out front end IC systems is proposed1. It is based on the use of a suitably configured current conveyor topology providing advantageous noise performance characteristics in comparison to the typical used CSA structures. In the proposed architecture the no...

As electricity prices continue to rise, the increasing need for energy management requires better understanding of models for energy-consuming applications, such as conveyor belts. Conveyor belts are used in a wide range of industries, including power generation, mining and mineral processing. Conveyor technological advances are leading to increasingly long conveyor belts being commissioned. Th...

Operational amplifiers are important building blocks for analog circuit design. Unfortunately, their limited performance such as bandwidth, slew-rate etc. leads the analog designer to search other possibilites and other building blocks. As a result, new current-mode active building blocks such as operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA), second generation current conveyors (CCII), current-...

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...

Conventional switch-mode dc-dc converters are operated at frequencies in the order of hundreds of kHz to single MHz. Switching frequencies in the order of tens of MHz would enable applications of RF converters in low power communications and computing integrated circuits with dynamic voltage scaling. Controllers for these converters would have to operate with a bandwidth in the GHz range. The m...

Voltage/current-mode universal biquadratic filter using single plus-type second-generation current conveyor (CCII), two capacitors and two resistors has been presented. The proposed voltage-mode circuit has three inputs and two outputs and can realize all the standard filter functions, which are, lowpass, bandpass, highpass, notch and allpass filters, without changing the circuit topology. One ...

A new current-mode band-pass filter using the inverting second-generation current conveyor (ICCII) is introduced. The circuit is generated from a frequency-dependent negative resistance (FDNR)-C circuit realized using ICCII+. It is observed that a voltagemode band-pass filter using two CCII+ has similar transfer function to this current-mode filter. The adjoint network theorem is used to demons...

The advent of differential voltage current conveyor(DVCC) has opened up new avenues in analog circuit design. In the present work, a DVCC has been employed to designcurrent-mode first-order continuous-time analog filters. Parameter tunability is achieved by the use of a two-MOSFET electronicresistor which exhibits variation in resistance in accordancewith a control voltage. The proposed circuit...

In this paper, design of a CMOS tunable versatile filter using current conveyor (CC) is presented. The filter is realized at the same time as on the chip is tunable for low pass, band pass, high pass, and elliptical notch filter. The circuit is utilizes two current conveyors, one Operational Trans-conductance Amplifier (OTA), four resistors and two grounded capacitors, ideal for integration. It...