Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier Research Articles

VDIBA-Based Current-Mode PID Controller Design

This paper aims to bring a voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA)-based current-mode (CM) proportional integral derivative (PID) controller circuit. This CM PID controller is designed with a single VDIBA, three resistors, and two grounded capacitors. The proposed circuit is easy to design, and the control parameters can be tuned without changing the design configuration. A sensitivity analysis of the control parameters to electronic components has been conducted. The Simulation Program with Integrated Circuit Emphasis (SPICE) simulation has been performed using Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) [Formula: see text]m complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology parameters. An application circuit example is given to demonstrate the reliability of the proposed PID design. A comparison table of the PID controllers previously reported in the literature is also presented.

Resistor-Less Capacitor-Controlled Single VDIBA-Based Third-Order Quadrature Sinusoidal Oscillator

This paper presents a new voltage-mode (VM) third-order quadrature sinusoidal oscillator (TOQSO) employing a single voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA) along with three grounded capacitors (GCs) (suitable for IC implementation and also for parasitic absorption) and two NMOS transistors (operated in triode region). The condition of oscillation (CO) and frequency of oscillation (FO) of the presented circuit are self-regulating, i.e. CO can be regulated electronically by transconductance and by varying capacitors, and the FO can be tuned. Non-ideal analysis of the presented TOQSO circuit has been carried out and the results have been compared with ideal ones. Sensitivities of FO with respect to active and passive components have been evaluated and found to be less and also the presented oscillator configuration has low power dissipation and low total harmonic distortions (THD). The feasibility of the presented circuit has been validated using high-performance tunable CMOS VDIBA with a low supply voltage ±0.6 V. Experimental results have also been corroborated using VDIBA, implemented with commercially available ICs MAX435 and AD830.

Electronically Tunable Flux-Controlled Resistorless Memristor Emulator

This article demonstrates a voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA)-based resistorless flux-controlled memristor emulator circuit with tunability. Two VDIBA blocks serve as active components, and a grounded capacitor serving as a passive part. The proposed emulator design is devoid of multipliers and resistors through effective utilization of port relationships. Including tunability, the suggested emulator functions in both incremental and decremental modes. It accurately depicts the attributes of an ideal memristor up to 12.7 MHz and consumes a total power of 1.34 mW. The mathematical analysis is substantiated through Cadence simulation in 0.18- <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\mu$</tex-math> </inline-formula> m Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) technology with the supply voltage of <inline-formula xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$\pm$</tex-math> </inline-formula> 1 V. Nonideal, single/parallel, Monte-Carlo sampling and corner analysis were conducted to confirm circuit resilience. The nonvolatile nature of the presented emulator model has also been included. A breadboard prototype incorporating the ICs CA3080 and LT1193 are built to conduct an experimental demonstration. The experimental findings were consistent with the theoretical expectations and simulation results.

Low-voltage bulk-driven self-cascode transistor based voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier and its application as universal filter

This paper presents low voltage, high performance Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier (VDIBA) based on bulk-driven self-cascode transistor. Bulk-driven technique and self-cascode structure are suitable for low voltage applications. Additionally, self-cascode structure is also useful for bandwidth enhancement. Using bulk-driven technique along with self-cascode transistor has improved the performance of the proposed circuit in terms of supply voltage, power consumption, input signal range and bandwidth. The proposed VDIBA operates at ± 0.7 ​V with input signal range of ±0.4 ​V and quiescent power consumption of 250 ​μW. Its transconductance bandwidth of 2 ​GHz is highest among all the existing versions of VDIBA. Small signal analysis has been done to validate the simulation results. Corner analysis has also been done to show the robustness of the circuit at different process corners. Moreover, post layout simulation has also been presented for the proposed circuit. To confirm the validity of the proposed block, it has been used to design a voltage mode universal filter. All the simulations are performed in TSMC 0.18 ​μm CMOS, BSIM3 and Level 49 technology by using Cadence Spectre simulator.

Behavior Models of Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier and Applications in Circuit Analysis

Background: The symbolic nodal analysis acts as a pivotal part of the very large scale integration (VLSI) design. Methods: In this work, based on the terminal relations for the pathological elements and the voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA), twelve alternative pathological models for the VDIBA are presented. Moreover, the proposed models are applied to the VDIBA-based second-order filter and oscillator so as to simplify the circuit analysis. Results: The result shows that the behavioral models for the VDIBA are systematic, effective and powerful in the symbolic nodal circuit analysis.&lt;/P&gt;

New Voltage-Mode Sinusoidal Oscillators Using VDIBAs

This paper presents two new voltage-mode sinusoidal oscillators based on voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA). The first proposed circuit exhibits independent and electronic control of oscillation condition by using the bias current of the VDIBA. The proposed configuration contains only single VDIBA, two grounded capacitors and two resistors, which are the least number of active components and the minimum number of passive components necessary for realizing voltage-mode oscillator topology. The second proposed circuit exhibits independent and electronic control on the condition of oscillation without affecting the oscillation frequency by adjusting the separate bias currents of the VDIBAs. The proposed configuration contains two VDIBAs, two grounded capacitors and one resistor, which can provide four quadrature voltage outputs simultaneously. Both proposed circuits enjoy only two grounded capacitors, which are suitable for monolithic integration. HSpice simulations and experimental results are included to confirm the theoretical analysis.

Voltage-mode third-order quadrature sinusoidal oscillator using VDIBAs

A third-order quadrature sinusoidal oscillator (TOQSO) is proposed employing two voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifiers (VDIBAs), three grounded capacitors and a resistor. The proposed TOQSO enjoys electronically tunable, non-interactive condition and frequency control. The TOQSO uses all grounded capacitors, which is suitable for IC implementation. Moreover, the internal CMOS realization of VDIBA is possibly the simplest among all recently introduced new active building blocks. SPICE simulation results have been provided to support the validity of proposed TOQSO using TSMC 0.18 µm technology.

Design and Analysis of Tunable Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier (VDIBA) with Enhanced Performance and Its Application in Filters

This paper proposes a high performance tunable Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier (VDIBA) where transconductance of VDIBA is enhanced by using programmable positive feedback technique and bandwidth is enhanced by using resistive compensation technique. The enhanced performance of proposed VDIBA is demonstrated by presenting detailed frequency analysis. Furthermore, it is verified that transconductance of proposed VDIBA can be enhanced up to 10.6 mS at tuning current (Ic) of 100 µA. Moreover, resistive compensation technique enhance bandwidth of propose circuit up to 263 MHz. To illustrate the effectiveness of proposed circuit, voltage mode universal biquad filter is designed as an application example. The pole frequency of proposed filter is tunable in range of 10.5---83.4 MHz. The proposed VDIBA and its filter applications are designed and simulated using TSMC 0.18 µm CMOS technology in Cadence virtuoso schematic composer at ± 0.6 V supply voltage.

Electronically Controllable Sinusoidal Oscillators Employing VDIBAs

Two new electronically controllable sinusoidal oscillators each employing two Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifiers (VDIBAs), two capacitors, and a single resistor have been proposed. The presented oscillators offer independent electronic control of Condition of Oscillation (CO) and Frequency of Oscillation (FO), and low active and passive sensitivities. The effect of non-idealities of the VDIBAs on the proposed oscillators is also investigated. The validity of the proposed structures has been confirmed by SPICE simulation with TSMC 0.18 µm process parameters.

New CMOS realization of high performance Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier and its filter application

This paper describes a high performance voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA). The transconductance of the proposed circuit is enhanced by using positive feedback technique with only two extra transistors used in active load. Moreover, the bandwidth of proposed circuit is enhanced by using resistive compensation technique. The performance of proposed VDIBA is demonstrated by detailed frequency analysis. Furthermore, it is shown that the transconductance can be enhanced up to 4.61 mS at biasing current of 300 µA. In addition, a third order low pass filter is given as an application example to confirm the high performance of the proposed VDIBA. The proposed low pass filter operates at natural pole frequency of 15 MHz. The proposed VDIBA and its filter application are implemented using TSMC 90 nm CMOS technology in Cadence virtuoso schematic composer at ±0.6 V supply voltage.

CMOS VDIBAs-Based Single-Resistance-Controlled Voltage-Mode Sinusoidal Oscillator

In this communication, a new single-resistance controlled sinusoidal oscillator (SRCO) has been presented. The presented SRCO uses two voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifiers (VDIBAs), one resistor and two capacitors in which one is grounded (GC) and the other one is floating (FC). The proposed structure offers the following advantageous features: 1) independent control of oscillation condition (OC) and oscillation frequency (OF); 2) low passive and active sensitivities and 3) very good frequency stability. The non-ideal effects of the VDIBA on the proposed oscillator have also been investigated. The proposed SRCO has been tested for its robustness using Monte-Carlo simulations. The check of the validity of the presented SRCO has been established by SPICE simulations using 0.18 μm TSMC technology.

A Novel Design of Low-Voltage VDIBA and Filter Application

In this study, a low-voltage low-power design of previously introduced analog signal processing element called as Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier (VDIBA) is presented. Level shifter current mirrors are used in the circuit design in order to accomplish the low-voltage low-power operation. The configuration operates only with ±0.4 V supply voltages and consumes power 569 µW at the bias current 50 µA. Also, low-voltage transconductor which has highly linear g m is executed with the use of bulk-driven quasi-floating gate (BD-QFG) and source degeneration techniques. The simulations of the introduced circuit have been performed with 0.18 μm TSMC CMOS technology by SPICE. The theoretical approaches have been confirmed by the simulation results. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5755/j01.eie.22.6.17224

Synthetic Grounded Lossy Inductance Simulators Using Single VDIBA

ABSTRACTThis work describes two circuit realizations for actively variable simulated lossy inductors (series R–L type and parallel R–L type). Both of the described inductors are simple and resistor-less structures, since they contains only a single active device called voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA), one grounded capacitor, and one NMOS transistor as a voltage-controlled resistor. The simulated equivalent resistances and inductances of the proposed synthetic lossy inductors can be tuned electronically. The non-ideal transfer gain and the parasitic impedances existing at the VDIBA terminals are taken into account. Simulations with TSMC 0.25-µm CMOS technology are also provided, which demonstrate the utility as well as the workability of the proposed simulators.

Low-voltage low-power FGMOS based VDIBA and its application as universal filter

This paper presents Floating gate MOS (FGMOS) based low-voltage low-power variant of recently proposed active element namely Voltage Differencing Inverting Buffered Amplifier (VDIBA). The proposed configuration operates at lower supply voltage ±0.75V with the total quiescent power consumption of 1.5mW at the biasing current of 100µA. Further the operating frequency of the proposed VDIBA is improved by using the resistive compensation method of bandwidth extension in Operational Transconductance Amplifier (OTA) stage of the block. By using resistive compensation method of bandwidth extension, the bandwidth of OTA stage increases from 92.47MHz to 220.67MHz. As an application, proposed FGMOS based VDIBA has been used to realize a novel resistorless voltage mode (VM) universal filter. The proposed universal filter configuration is capable of realizing all the standard filter functions in both inverting and non-inverting forms simultaneously without any matching constraint. Other important features include independently tunable filter parameters, cascadibility and low sensitivity figure. The proposed filter is tunable over the frequency range of 4.1MHz to 12.9MHz and is capable of compensating for process, voltage and temperature (PVT) variation. The simulations are performed using SPICE and TSMC 0.18µm CMOS technology parameters with±0.75V supply voltage to validate the effectiveness of the proposed circuit.

Synthesis of active inductors using SFG stamps

This paper proposes a new approach for the systematic synthesis of active inductors via signal-flow graphs (SFGs). The basic idea consists of proposing and using SFG stamps of active basic building blocks (ABBs) to construct the equivalent SFG of a classical inductor. We show that a large number of active inductors can be thus synthesized; twelve are proposed, most of them are novel. Known ABBs, as well as newly proposed ones are used, namely current conveyors (CC), operational transconductance amplifiers (OTA), current conveyor transconductance amplifiers (CCII-TA), current feedback operational amplifiers (CFOA), operational transresistance amplifiers (OTRA), current backward transconductance amplifiers (CBTA), current feedback transconductance amplifiers (CFTA) and voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifiers (VDIBA). SPICE simulations are given to show the viability of the proposed technique.

Voltage-Mode New Universal Biquad Filter Configuration Using a Single VDIBA

A universal voltage-mode filter configuration employing a voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA), two capacitors and a resistor is proposed. The presented structure can realize all the five standard biquadratic filters: low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, band-reject and all-pass, without changing the circuit topology. The proposed filter circuit also provides the following advantageous features, not available simultaneously in any of the single active element/device based universal biquad realizing all the five filter responses known earlier so far: (i) independent electronic tuning of natural angular frequency (ω 0) and bandwidth (BW), (ii) no requirement of any element matching condition or inversion of input signal(s) (as needed in most of the earlier reported structures), and (iii) low active and passive sensitivities. Moreover, even the internal structure of the new building block is possibly the simplest among all recently introduced new building blocks. The workability of the proposed filter has been confirmed by SPICE simulations using 0.18 μm technology.

New resistorless tunable voltage-mode universal filter using single VDIBA

To increase the universality of the recently introduced voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA), this letter presents a new voltage-mode (VM) multi-input–single-output (MISO) universal filter. The proposed filter contains only single VDIBA, two capacitors, and one nMOS transistor, operated in triode region, and is used for resonance angular frequency tuning. Since in the structure no resistors are needed the filter can be classified as resistorless. The VM MISO filter compared with other active building block-based counterparts is very simple, it contains only few transistors, and has the smallest size area. Moreover, no component matching is required and it shows low sensitivity performance. The theoretical results are verified by SPICE simulations using TSMC 0.18 μm level-7 SCN018 CMOS process parameters with ±0.9 V supply voltages. In addition, the behavior of the proposed VM filter was also experimentally verified using commercially available integrated circuits OPA660 and AD830.

New resistorless and electronically tunable realization of dual-output VM all-pass filter using VDIBA

In this paper, a new active element called voltage differencing inverting buffered amplifier (VDIBA) is presented. Using single VDIBA and a capacitor, a new resistorless voltage-mode (VM) first-order all-pass filter (APF) is proposed, which provides both inverting and non-inverting outputs at the same configuration simultaneously. The pole frequency of the filter can be electronically controlled by means of bias current of the internal transconductance. No component-matching conditions are required and it has low sensitivity. In addition, the parasitic and loading effects are also investigated. By connecting two newly introduced APFs in open loop a novel second-order APF is proposed. As another application, the proposed VM APF is connected in cascade to a lossy integrator in a closed loop to design a four-phase quadrature oscillator. The theoretical results are verified by SPICE simulations using TSMC 0.18 μm level-7 CMOS process parameters with ±0.9 V supply voltages. Moreover, the behavior of the proposed VM APF was also experimentally measured using commercially available integrated circuit OPA860 by Texas Instruments.