A Modern VDCCTA Active Element and Its Electronic Application

Abstract

In this paper, a novel current mode (CM) building block termed Voltage differencing current conveyor transconductance amplifier (VDCCTA) is developed by combining the voltage differencing current conveyor (VDCC) and an operational transconductance amplifier (OTA). This modern active block VDCCTA is extended for applications such as a lossless inductor, filter design, and chaotic circuit design. An active inductor simulator (AIS) without any component matching is designed using the proposed VDCCTA block and a grounded capacitor as a first application that offers flexibility to model grounded positive active inductor (GPAI), grounded negative active inductor (GNAI), and floating positive active inductor (FPAI) circuits. Moreover, the proposed positive active inductor (PAI) can also be translated for multiple input single output (MISO) voltage mode (VM) universal filter with two external passive elements and chaotic circuitry. The characteristics of VDCCTA are verified with the CM multifunction filter, VM band-pass filter, and VM-MISO filter. A complete exercise of this newly reported VDCCTA block is analyzed for their port characteristics validation and the performance parameters using PSPICE simulation. Finally, experimental verification of the proposed AIS is tested to justify the theoretical and simulated results.