Low Voltage Digitally Controlled CMOS Current Conveyor

Abstract

Summary In this paper, a digitally controlled current conveyo(DCCC) is presented. The proposed DCCC is based on rail-to-rail folded cascode implementation with a current division network (CDN). The CDN is used to provide control on the current gain of the DCCC. The CDN uses a novel current division technique based on differential pairs. The proposed DCCC can operate from ±1.5 V supply voltages. Applications of the proposed DCCC such as variable gain amplifiers (VGA) and digitally tunedfilters have been investigated. PSpice simulations based on the AMI 1.2 µm N-well level 3 parameters are in agreement with the presented work.