A low-power multi-mode and multi-output high-order CMOS universal Gm-C filter

Abstract

This paper presents a new CMOS high-order Gm-C universal filter which can realize multi-mode (current, voltage, trans-resistance and trans-conductance) filtering functions, using grounded capacitors to absorbing shunt parasitic capacitances and a reduced number of active elements which leads to the minimum chip size and power consumption. Furthermore, in current-mode implementation, the proposed circuit produces simultaneously multiple filtering functions while uses just one configuration of inputs. Also, as the result of sensitivity analysis shows, the new filter structure has a very low sensitivity to the values of capacitors and trans-conductance elements. However, the proposed Gm-C filter is designed and simulated in HSPICE using 0.18 μm CMOS technology parameters and HSPICE simulation results have very close agreement with theoretical results obtained from MATLAB which justifies the design accuracy and low-power, multi-mode, multi-output universal filtering performance of the proposed circuit.