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A Novel Configuration for Voltage-Mode Biquads Using a Single Current Conveyor Masami Higashimura Department of ElectricalEngineering, Matsue Collegeof Technology, 14-4, Nishi-ikuma, Matsue, 690 Japan
A novel general circuit configuration for the realisation of voltage-modebiquad falterswith a high input impedance,which enables the circuits to be cascaded without requiring any impedancematchingdevice,is presented.The circuitcan realise lowpass, highpass, bandpass, notch, and allpass transfer functionswith a singlecurrent conveyor(CCII) and four or six passive elements.
This paper presents a novel general circuit configuration which realises voltage-mode lowpass, highpass, bandpass, notch and allpass falters using a single CCII with high input impedance. The voltage tracking error of a CCII has no effects on o90 and Q of the transfer functions.
1. Introduction
2. Circuit Configuration
any active-RC circuits for the realisation of voltage-mode and current-mode transfer functions using a single current conveyor (CCII) [1] have been published in the literature [2-17]. However, no circuits which use a single CCII to realise any type of voltage-mode transfer functions with high input impedance have been reported. A high input impedance enables the circuits to be used in cascade without requiring any impedance matching device, and minimizing the number of CCIIs has the obvious advantage of low cost and low power consumption.
Figure 1 shows a proposed circuit configuration which realises voltage-mode transfer functions. Assuming a CCII to be ideal (i, =' 0, Vx = vy and iz = - ix), analysis yields the following transfer function:
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As the third example, if yl = 1/R1, y2 = oo (short circuit), y3 = 1/R3, y4 = sC4 andys = sC5, a bandpass filter can be realised. Then, coo and Q are given by 1 ~ 1/2 co,, = \ C4CsR1R3]
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Sensitivity analysis of the bandpass filter yields
If y, =sC1, y2 = 1/R2, y3 =sC3, ]I4 = 1//G and Y5 = oo (short circuit), a highpass filter can be realised. Then coo and Q are given by
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As the fourth example, if),3 = oo, eqn (1) becomes V2 _ yly5 - - Y2y4
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If }/1 = l/R1, z2 = 1/}/2 = R2 + 1/sC2, }/3 = o0, }/4 = 1/R4 and ys = sCs + 1/Rs, an allpass filter can be realised with
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3. Experimental Result Figure 2 shows the calculated frequency responses of a Butterworth lowpass falter with R1 = 2R3 = 20 k f l , C2 = C4 = 10 nF, co0/(2rr) = 1125-4 Hz, ev = 0 and ei = 0, 0.02 and 0"05. The experiment was carried out using a CCII which was constructed using an operational amplifier (LF356N) together with current mirrors composed of transistors (pnp: 2SA721 and npn: 2SC1327) [14, 18]. The experimental result agrees well with the characteristic calculated using e i = 0.02. Similarly, highpass, bandpass, allpass and notch filters worked successfully.
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A novel general circuit configuration for realising any type of voltage-mode second-order transfer function with high input impedance is presented. The voltage tracking error has no effect on o90and Q. The suitability of CCIIs as the active elements to realise basic building blocks for the design ofbiquad fdters has been established.
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