VERSATILE TRANSADMITTANCE-MODE OTA-C UNIVERSAL BIQUAD FILTER USING MINIMUM COMPONENTS WITH INDEPENDENTLY ELECTRONIC TUNABILITY

Abstract

This paper presents a transadmittance-mode (TAM) universal biquad filter with independently electronic tunability. The proposed biquad filter only employs three operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) and two grounded capacitors which are the minimum components count necessary for realizing independently electronic tunability of the parameters ω0 and ω0/Q without the need of control factors matching conditions. Moreover, the proposed circuit still achieves nearly all of the main advantages: (i) simultaneous realizations of universal filtering responses (low-pass, high-pass, band-pass, band-reject and all-pass) from the same topology, (ii) versatile input/output functions, (iii) orthogonally electronic tunability of the parameters ω0 and Q without the need of control factors matching conditions, (iv) no need of any resistors, (v) cascadable feature for all input and output terminals, (vi) no need of extra inverting or non-inverting amplifiers, (vii) the employment of only grounded capacitors, (viii) no component-value constraints (except for allpass filter function) and (ix) low active and passive sensitivity performances. H-spice simulations with TSMC 0.35 μm 2P4M CMOS process technology validate theoretical predictions.