Current-Mode VLSI Analog Filters

Electrical engineers, computer engineers and graduate students specializing in analog VLSI design will find the book a thorough and current treatment of the subject. Analog circuit designers will find this book an essential resource for their work.

Presents several designs for OTAs and current conveyors in various technologies such as bipolar, CMOS and BiCMOS Covers recent advances of switched current filters Presents many current practical applications of current-mode design techniques Suitable as a self-study resource text

Inhalt
1 Introduction.- 1.1 Active RC and Active R filters.- 1.2 SC filters.- 1.3 OTA-C filters.- 1.4 CC-based filters.- 1.5 CT filters.- 1.6 SI filters.- 1.7 Log-domain filters.- 1.8 Basic circuit elements.- 1.9 Organization of the book.- 2 Operational Transconductance Amplifier-C filters.- 2.1 First-order OTA-C filters.- 2.2 Second-order OTA-C filters.- 2.3 OTA-C filters derived from LC filters.- 2.4 Multiple feedback type OTA-C filters.- 2.5 Analysis of the effect of non-idealities of the OTA.- 2.6 Power dissipation, noise, and dynamic range of OTA-C filters.- 2.7 OTA-C oscillators.- 2.8 Network transposition and current-mode filters.- 3 Current-mode Filter Design Using Current Conveyors.- 3.1 First-order CC-based networks.- 3.2 Second-order current-mode CC-based filters.- 3.3 Grounded and floating impedance simulation using CCs.- 3.4 Current-mode biquads using CCs and needing no resistors.- 3.5 CC-based oscillators.- 3.6 Applications of CFOAs.- 3.7 Current-mode filters using FTFN.- 4 Switched-current Filters.- 4.1 Switched-current memory cells and integrators.- 4.2 SI ladder filters.- 4.3 Effect of mismatch of the current copier transistors.- 4.4 Clock feed-through cancellation techniques.- 4.5 Distortion in current memory cells.- 4.6 Non-linearity compensation of current-mode circuits.- 4.7 Noise in current copiers.- 4.8 Figure of merit for evaluating current memory cells.- 4.9 CTCM filters.- 4.10 CTCM differentiators.- 5 Log-domain and Square-root Domain Filters.- 5.1 Basic companding current-mode integrators.- 5.2 Second-order log-domain filter structures.- 5.3 Log-domain ladder filters.- 5.4 Noise and dynamic range evaluation of log-domain filters.- 5.5 High-frequency log-domain filters.- 5.6 Square-root x domain filters.- 5.7 Analysis of log-domain filters.- 6 Practical Design and Applications of Current-mode Systems.- 6.1 Introduction.- 6.2 Transconductance realization blocks.- 6.3 Bipolar OTA realizations.- 6.4 BiCMOS transconductors.- 6.5 CC implementations.- 6.6 Tuning of CT filters.- 6.7 Applications of current-mode filters.- 6.8 SI filter implementations.- 6.9 Log-domain filter performance.