CMOS differential difference current conveyors and their applications

Abstract

The authors present a new versatile circuit building block called a differential difference current conveyor (DDCC). An IC technique for implementing the DDCC is also presented. The DDCC-based frequency-selective circuits and nonlinear building blocks such as multiplier, squarer and square rooter are developed. Experimental results are given to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed techniques, and they show that DDCC-based circuits offer a competitive design choice to CCII-based and DDA-based circuits.