Title
A New Extremely Low Power Temperature Insensitive Electronically Tunable VCII-Based Grounded Capacitance Multiplier
Abstract
In this brief, a new circuit topology to realize an electronically tunable grounded capacitor multiplier with extremely low power consumption and low supply voltage requirement is investigated. The proposed circuit uses an electronically tunable second generation voltage conveyor (VCII) and a single floating capacitor. Owing to the translinear principle, current gain of VCII is varied through a control current and, as a result, the value of simulated capacitor is also varied. Favorably the obtained gain is temperature insensitive. Both of the required supply voltage and control currents are very low because all transistors are biased in subthreshold region: therefore, electronic tunability is achieved while the power consumption is kept at very low value. In addition, the circuit realization is very simple since only twelve transistors are required. Simulation results, performed at schematic level in 0.18 μm CMOS technology and supply voltage of ±0.3V, are presented. It is shown that a multiplication factor from 1 to 100 is possible while the power consumption varies from 10 nW to 67 nW.
Year
DOI
Venue
2021
10.1109/TCSII.2020.3005524
IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs
Keywords
DocType
Volume
CCII,capacitance multiplier,voltage conveyor,VCII,translinear,electronically variable VCII,extremely low power~VCII
Journal
68
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1
1549-7747
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
0
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vincenzo Stornelli131.15
L. Safari251.63
Gianluca Barile3116.23
G. Ferri49927.03