Voltage Gain-Controlled Third-Generation Current Conveyor and its All-Pass Filter Verification

Abstract

The paper presents a new active building block (ABB) called minus-type voltage gain-controlled third-generation current conveyor (VGC-CCIII) in which the voltage gain between Y to X terminal can be controlled. The usefulness of the tunable feature in the presented ABB is demonstrated in current-mode {0.3rd; 0.5th; 0.7th; 1st}-order all-pass filter (APF) employing single VGC-CCIII, one capacitor, and one resistor. The theoretical results of the integer- and fractional-order APF are verified by SPICE simulations based on readily available IC OPA860 macromodel, which can also be used in experiments.