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0.3 V Differential Difference Current Conveyor Using Multiple-Input Bulk-Driven Technique

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This paper presents a new ultra-low voltage and ultra-low power differential difference current conveyor (DDCC) which is suitable for portable electronic applications. The proposed DDCC uses the subthreshold technique to reduce the power consumption and the bulk-driven technique to obtain a rail-to-rail input common-mode swing. Unlike previous DDCCs, the multiple-input bulk-driven technique is used in the proposed DDCC to reduce the number of transistors and to achieve the compactness. The proposed DDCC was designed using 0.18 µm TSMC CMOS technology with 0.3 V power supply and 38 nW power consumption. To confirm the workability of the new active device, a third-order elliptic filter using the proposed DDCCs as active device has been introduced as an application example. The proposed DDCC and its application have been designed and simulated in Cadence/Specter environment, and the simulated results prove the functionality and the attractive results of the new circuits.

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This work was supported by King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang Under Grant KREF026201. Research described in this paper was financed by the National Sustainability Program Under Grant LO1401. For the research, infrastructure of the SIX Center was used.

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  1. Department of Telecommunications Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, 10520, Thailand

    Montree Kumngern

  2. Department of Microelectronics, Brno University of Technology, Technicka 10, Brno, Czech Republic

    Fabian Khateb

  3. Faculty of Biomedical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, nám. Sítná 3105, Kladno, Czech Republic

    Fabian Khateb

  4. Department of Electrical Engineering, Technical University of Częstochowa, 42-201, Częstochowa, Poland

    Tomasz Kulej

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Kumngern, M., Khateb, F. & Kulej, T. 0.3 V Differential Difference Current Conveyor Using Multiple-Input Bulk-Driven Technique. Circuits Syst Signal Process 39, 3189–3205 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00034-019-01292-x

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