voltage controlled voltage source

(VCVS), (ii) current controlled current source (CCCS)

Abstract— This article presents a universal amplifier module

(UAM), implemented in 180 nm CMOS technology, that can be
configured to function as a (i) voltage controlled voltage source
(VCVS), (ii) current controlled current source (CCCS), (iii)
voltage controlled current source (VCCS), (iv) current
controlled voltage source (CCVS), and (v) current conveyor
(type II). As a result, the amplifier can be used to produce four
kinds of basic circuit transfer functions, i.e., voltage-, current-,
transadmittance- and transimpedance- transfer functions. This
is validated by presenting simulation results for a second order
voltage, current, transadmittance and transimpedance bandpass
filter (BPF) transfer functions using only three UAM
devices. The device is expected to be useful in a complex VLSI
system environment where interfacing between sub-systems
with varied impedance levels is required.
Keywords— Universal amplifier module (UAM), CMOS analog
integrated circuits, Voltage and current mode signal processing,
Transadmittance filter (TAF), Transimpedance filter (TIF).
I. INTRODUCTION
The Advent of CMOS technology has facilitated the
invention of several analog amplifiers, such as operational
amplifiers, operational transconductance amplifiers etc. [1-
2]. These amplifiers have been used for both voltage and
current mode signal processing. In the recent past people
have introduced new circuit modules that can produce
voltage and current mode transfer functions only [3-4]. In
this article we report a UAM that can be configured as any
one of the four basic electronic amplifiers (i.e., VCVS,
VCCS, CCVS, CCCS) as well as a type II Current Conveyor
(CCII). The UAM introduced by us can produce
transadmittance-, and transimpedance- transfer functions, in
addition to voltage and current-mode transfer functions.
Thus it can be used to produce four kinds of transfer
functions. In section II, the design principles of the proposed
UAM with different sub-systems are discussed and
principles of implementing the four basic amplifiers as well
as a CCII with the UAM are described. In section III, several
performance parameters measured by HSPICE simulation on
the post layout extracted data file are presented. Section IV
presents the configurations for realizing second-order bandpass
filters as voltage-, transadmittance, curren- and
transimpedance transfer functions using only three UAM
devices. The response curves for all the four filter transfer
functions are presented. Section V concludes the article.
II. THE AMPLIFIER MODULE