Current conveyor based or unity gain cells based two integrator loop oscillators

Abstract

Four alternative families of oscillators are considered in this paper, three of the families employ CCII or ICCII or combination of both and each family has sixteen oscillator circuit members. The fourth family uses unity gain cells and has four circuit members. Two alternative transformation methods are used in this paper for the generation of oscillators. The first one uses the adjoint circuit theorem to obtain a new family of current mode oscillators from a voltage mode oscillator circuit. The second transformation method uses the nodal admittance matrix (NAM) expansion to generate a grounded passive element oscillator family from an oscillator circuit, which employs a virtually grounded resistor. Although this paper has a tutorial nature it includes two new families of oscillators; one of them provides both current and voltage outputs and the other provides voltage outputs and is based on the use of voltage, current followers and inverters. Simulation results are included to support the analysis.