Current Mode Universal Filter Using Single Current Controlled Differential Difference Current Conveyor Transconductance Amplifier

Abstract

This research paper contains a new electronically tunable current-mode biquadratic universal filter using a new active building block; current controlled differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCDDCCTA). The proposed filter provides the following important and desirable features: (i) One can use only one CCDDCCTA and two capacitors; (ii) One can get low pass (LP), band pass (BP), high pass (HP), notch (NF) and all pass (AP) current responses from the same configuration without any alteration; (iii) Passive components are grounded, which ease the integrated circuit implementation; (iv) Responses are electronically tunable; and (v) Sensitivity is low. Moreover, the non-ideality analysis shows that the parasitic passive components can be compensated for the proposed circuit. The functionality of the design is verified through SPICE simulations using 0.25 μm CMOS TSMC technology process parameters. Simulation result agrees well with the theoretical analysis.

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Kushwaha, A. and Paul, S. (2015) Current Mode Universal Filter Using Single Current Controlled Differential Difference Current Conveyor Transconductance Amplifier. Circuits and Systems, 6, 224-236. doi: 10.4236/cs.2015.610023.

1. Introduction

Universal biquadratic filters are those which provide all standard filter functions (low pass (LP), band pass (BP), high pass (HP), notch (NF) and all pass (AP)), without modifying the circuit topology. The advancement in the field of microelectronics presents current mode active building blocks for design of fast and high performance analog signal processing circuits and systems [1] . The current mode active blocks may process signals in voltage as well as current mode. A number of current mode filters using various analog building blocks (ABB) are available in literature under the classification of multi-input multi-output (MIMO) [2] -[5] , single-input multi- output (SIMO) [6] -[11] and multi-input single-output (MISO) [12] - [24] . In addition, a range of current conveyor blocks with inbuilt transconductance amplifier (TA) in monolithic chip, such as current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCTA) [25] , current difference transconductance amplifier (CDTA) [26] , current controlled current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCCCTA) [27] , differential voltage current conveyor transconductance amplifier (DVCCTA) [19] , differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifier (DDCCTA) [4] , differential voltage current controlled conveyor transconductance amplifier (DVCCCTA) [28] and current controlled differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCDDCCTA) [29] , have emerged in last few years. Among these, CCDDCCTA is a recently introduced ABB. It is basically composed of current controlled differential difference current conveyor (CCDDCC) [30] followed by a transconductance amplifier (TA) block. It has high input impedance terminals for voltage and high output impedance terminals for currents. It can process both differential and floating inputs. It inherits all the good properties of CCDDCC, CCCCTA and DDCCTA along with electronic tuning of transconductance, which is found to be useful in design of various circuits with lesser number of resistors and integrated circuit implementation.

The study of MISO universal filters [13] - [24] based on current mode ABB reveals that these circuits suffer one or more of the following weakness:

(a) Use of two or more ABBs [13] - [16] [18] [20] - [24] ;

(b) Excessive use of the passive components [15] - [17] [19] [21] ;

(c) No grounded passive components [15] [16] ;

(d) Requirement of four or more input current signal to get all the responses [15] - [18] ;

(e) Requirement of gain of input signal such as 2Iin or 3Iin [13] - [15] [20] [23] [24] ;

(f) Lack of electronic tunability [15] [16] ;

(g) Non-orthogonality of pole frequency and quality factor [13] - [15] [20] - [22] [24] .

A new current mode universal filter with a reduced number of passive components has been presented. The proposed filter is a multi-input single-output (MISO) and uses two grounded capacitors and one CCDDCCTA only. The proposed current mode filter circuit can realize high pass (HP), low pass (LP), band pass (BP), notch and all pass (AP) filter responses by selecting appropriate input current without alteration of the topology. It can easily be cascaded, as its output is current and impedance is high. All the features of the proposed filter can be electronically adjusted by biasing currents of the CCDDCCTA. Moreover, the high-Q filter may easily be achieved by using the bias currents of CCDDCCTA. A comparative study of the available active elements based on current mode filters is also presented. PSPICE simulation results verify the theoretical analysis.

2. Circuit Description

The symbol of CCDDCCTA and its implementation using CMOS are shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2 respectively.

Figure 1. Symbol of CCDDCCTA.

Figure 2. Implementation of CCDDCCTA using CMOS.

The port relationships of the CCDDCCTA can be represented by the following matrix:

(1)

where, the intrinsic resistance at X terminal defined as

(2)

where,

(3)

(4)

Similarly, the transconductance from Z terminal to O terminal may be expressed as

(5)

It may be noted that both and can be electronically varied by bias currents IB1 and IB2 of CCDDCCTA respectively.

The proposed current mode (CM) filter is shown in Figure 3 which utilizes two grounded capacitors and one CCDDCCTA only. The routine analysis of circuit gives the output current at single node as:

(6)

The inspection of Equation (6) reveals that the circuit of Figure 3 will function as a universal filter depending upon combination of inputs (Iin1, Iin2 and Iin3) applied at three terminals. The output response (Iout) for different combinations of inputs are shown in Table 1. It reveals that no component constraint is required for LP and BP response; however for HP, notch and AP responses a simple component matching is required. The circuit is suitable for cascading to another circuit having low input impedance for current input.

The filter parameters, namely natural angular frequency, bandwidth (BW) and quality factor are obtained respectively as

, , and (7)

It reveals in Table 1 and (7) that for LP and BP responses and can be varied with IB2 without disturbing. The variation of without disturbing may be achieved by simultaneously varying IB1 and IB2, such that the product remains constant and the quotient varies and vice-versa. Similarly for HP and notch responses can be varied independent of by keeping the product unity and varying the quotient using IB1 and IB2. It may also be shown from (7) that high value of quality factor can be obtained from the low spread of capacitance (C1 and C2) values [31] . If the ratio of C1 and C2 are chosen as, then the spread of components comes out to be. This feature of the proposed filter allows the realization of high with low spread of C1 and C2 in comparison to topologies where the spread is or.

The sensitivity of a parameter Y to variation of element X may be defined as

(8)

The sensitivity analysis of the proposed circuits for various parameters is evaluated as

, ,

Figure 3. Proposed current mode universal filter.

Table 1. The Iin1, Iin2 and Iin3 values selection for each filter function response.

(9)

,.

It reveals that the sensitivity is low and less then unity in magnitude.

3. Non-Idealities Analysis

The performance of the proposed current mode filter might be deviated from the ideal response due to non- idealities of CCDDCCTA. The first non-ideality comes due to the internal current (α) and voltage (β) transfer of CCDDCCTA and hence modified port relationships with current and voltage transfer non-ideality can be expressed in matrix form as

(10)

where, voltage tracking error coefficient, and are from Y1, Y2 and Y3 terminals to X terminal respectively. The current tracking error coefficient is from X to Z terminal. The current gain coefficient is from Z terminal to O terminal. Considering these tracking coefficient, modified output current of the circuit is obtained as:

(11)

The filter parameters can be expressed as

, ,. (12)

It is noticed that the non-idealities affect the parameters of the filter. The sensitivity analysis of, and BW results as follows:

, , ,

, , , (13)

, ,.

It reveals that with non-ideality; the sensitivity is still low and magnitude is within unity.

The second non-ideality comes due to the parasites of CCDDCCTA comprising of capacitances and resistances connected in parallel at Z, O and Y terminals. The effect of these parasites is very much dependent on the circuit topology. The current mode universal filter with non-ideality is shown in Figure 4. The modified capacitances are and and modified resistances/conductances are and. Here, CY2, CY3, CZ and CO1 are the parasitic capacitances at Y2, Y3, Z and O1 terminals respectively. Similarly, RY2, RY3, RZ and RO1 are parasitic resistances at Y2, Y3, Z and O1 terminals respectively. It is evident that the effect of parasitic capacitances can be compensated by taken the external capacitances C1 and C2 lesser by (CY3 + CO1) and (CY2 + CZ) respectively from their calculated values. The effect of parasitic conductances may also be made insignificant if operating frequency and value of C1 and C2 are chosen in such a way that and.

4. Simulation Result and Discussion

The current mode universal filter as proposed in Figure 3 is simulated with PSPICE. The 0.25 µm CMOS TSMC technology process parameters are used for simulation. The aspect ratio of various transistors is stated in Table 2. The supply voltages of ±1.25 V and VBB = −0.8 V are used. To design the filter for a pole frequency of = 1.28 MHz and quality factor = 1, the component values are taken as C1 = C2 = 100 pF and bias current as IB1 = 25 µA and IB2 = 200 µA. The input for each filter realization is selected as per Table 1. Figures 5-8 shows the simulated and theoretical low pass, high pass, band pass and notch responses respectively. The value of IB1 is set as 12.5 µA and IB2 = 200 µA for the realization of all pass responses as shown in Figure 9.

To test the orthogonal variation of with, a band pass filter is chosen. The variation of with = 1 is shown in Figure 10 for different value of bias currents (IB2 = 8 IB1) as given in Table 3. Similarly Figure 11 shows orthogonal adjustment of with = 1.28 MHz for different value of IB1 and IB2 as mentioned in Table 4.

It is well known that a little tolerance of the value of the various components occurs during manufacturing and even afterword resulting in deviation of various parameters of filters such as central frequency, quality factor and bandwidth from its designed values. The collection of statistical data due to tolerance of passive components is obtained using Monte-Carlo analysis for band pass filter. As an example, for a 100 pF ± 5% capacitor, the actual measured capacitor value to be somewhere between 95 pF and 105 pF. Monte-Carlo runs to cover as

Figure 4. Current mode universal filter with non-ideality.

Table 2. Aspect ratio of various transistors.

Figure 5. Simulated and theoretical response for low pass filter.

Figure 6. Simulated and theoretical response for high pass filter.

Figure 7. Simulated and theoretical response for band pass filter.

Figure 8. Simulated and theoretical response for notch filter.

Figure 9. Simulated and theoretical gain and phase response for all pass filter.

Figure 10. Variation of pole frequency () for fixed = 1.

Table 3. Bias current values for orthogonal adjustment of with.

Table 4. Bias current values for orthogonal adjustment of with.

Figure 11. Variation of quality factor () for fixed = 1.28 MHz.

many possible values of the component within their tolerance limits. It is performed by taking 5% Gaussian deviation of C1 and C2 values for 200 simulation runs for a pole frequency of 1.28 MHz. The result of Monte- Carlo simulation is shown in Figure 12 and corresponding histogram in Figure 13. As per statistical results as shown in Figure 13, the minimum and maximum frequency obtained are 1.18 MHz and 1.38 MHz respectively and standard deviation is 42.2 KHz. It reveals that the proposed filter exhibits a reasonable sensitivity performance. The quality of the output response may be judged with the help of percentage total harmonic distortion (%THD). The %THD of the output response for band pass filter with respect to the input is shown in Figure 14. It is found that the %THD is well within the tolerance range of 5%.

Comparative study of different available implementation of current mode MISO universal filters is given in Table 5. It is evident that most of the circuits suffers from one or more weakness in comparison to the proposed one. However circuits proposed in [17] [19] uses one active building block as that of the proposed one. The circuit of [17] uses excessive number of passive components and is comparable to the proposed one.

Figure 12. Monte-Carlo 200 simulation runs for BP filter.

Figure 13. Monte-Carlo histogram for the BP filter.

Figure 14. Variation of %THD for band pass output response Vs input signal.

Table 5. Comparative study of the available active element based current mode MISO universal filter.

5. Conclusion

Current mode universal filter using current controlled differential difference current conveyor transconductance amplifier (CCDDCCTA) has been presented that uses two grounded capacitors and one CCDDCCTA only. It can realize high pass, low pass, band pass, notch and all pass responses from the same topology. The filter parameter can be electronically adjustable by bias currents IB1 and IB2. Table 5 shows the comparative study of the available current mode building block based MISO filters. PSPICE simulation results authenticate the theoretical results.

NOTES

*Corresponding author.

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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