ELECTRICA

NEW FIRST-ORDER ALLPASS FILTERS EMPLOYING SINGLE MODIFIED THIRD GENERATION CURRENT CONVEYOR

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The Scientific and Technical Research Council of Turkey, Marmara Research Center, Information Technologies Research Institute, 41470, Gebze, Kocaeli, TURKEY

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Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, İstanbul Technical University, İstanbul, Turkey

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Bogazici University, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Electrical and Electronics Eng., 80815 Bebek-Istanbul, TURKEY

ELECTRICA 2004; 4: 1141-1147
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The third generation current conveyor (CCIII) presented by Fabre is shown to be a useful active element to pick up the current of a floating passive element. CCIII can be considered as a current controlled current source with unity gain. The use of controlled sources with unity gain in the design of active-RC filters leads to structures with tight design equations. In order to relieve these, it may be useful to insert a gain larger than unity. The modified third generation current conveyor (MCCIII) is a newly introduced active building block to realize this property and to provide new possibilities in the circuit synthesis. In this paper, four new first-order allpass filter configurations employing a single modified third-generation current conveyor (MCCIII) are presented. To demonstrate the advantages of the proposed circuit topologies, a quadrature oscillator is designed employing the proposed allpass sections. SPICE simulation results verifying theoretical analyses are also included.

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