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New 1.5-V CMOS second generation current conveyor based on wide range transconductor

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This paper presents a novel CMOS low-voltage and low-power positive second-generation current conveyor (CCII+). The proposed CCII+ uses two n-channel differential pairs instead of the complementary differential pairs; i.e. (n-channel and p-channel), to realize the input stage. This solution allows almost a rail-to-rail input and output operation; also it reduces the number of current mirrors needed in the input stage. The CCII+ is operating at supply voltages of ±0.75 V with a total standby current of 133 μA. The application of the proposed CCII+ to realize a MOS-C second order maximally flat low-pass filter is given. PSpice simulation results for the proposed CCII+ and its application are given.

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    Ahmed H. Madian & Ahmed M. Soliman

  2. Electrical and Electronics Department, Faculty of Information Engineering and Technology, German University in Cairo, Egypt

    Soliman A. Mahmoud

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Ahmed H. Madian was born in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 1975. He received the B.Sc. degree with honors, and the M.Sc. degree in electronics and communications from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1997, and 2001 respectively. He is currently a Research Assistant in the Electronics Engineering Department, Micro-Electronics Design Center, Egyptian Atomic Energy Authority, Cairo, Egypt. His research interests are in circuit theory; low-voltage analog CMOS circuit design, current-mode analog signal processing, and mixed/digital applications on filed programmable gate arrays.

Soliman A. Mahmoud was born in Cairo, Egypt, in 1971. He received the BSc degree with honors in 1994, the MSc degree in 1996, and the PhD degree in 1999, all from the Electronics and Communications Department, Cairo University, Egypt. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Electrical Engineering Department, Fayoum University, Egypt. He is currently also a visiting Associate Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department, German University in Cairo, Egypt. In 2005, He was decorated with the Science Prize in Advanced Engineering Technology from the Academy of Scientific Research and technology. His research and teaching interests are in circuit theory, fully-integrated analog filters, high-frequency transconductance amplifiers, low-voltage analog CMOS circuit design, current-mode analog signal processing, and mixed analog/digital programmable analog blocks.

Ahmed M. Soliman was born in Cairo Egypt, on November 22, 1943. He received the B.Sc. degree with honors from Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt, in 1964,the M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from the University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA., U.S.A., in 1967 and 1970, respectively, all in Electrical Engineering. He is currently Professor Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt. From September 1997-September 2003, Dr Soliman served as Professor and Chairman Electronics and Communications Engineering Department, Cairo University, Egypt. From 1985-1987, Dr. Soliman served as Professor and Chairman of the Electrical Engineering Department, United Arab Emirates University, and from 1987-1991 he was the Associate Dean of Engineering at the same University. He has held visiting academic appointments at San Francisco State University, Florida Atlantic University and the American University in Cairo.He was a visiting scholar at Bochum University, Germany (Summer 1985) and with the Technical University of Wien, Austria (Summer 1987). In November 2005, Dr Soliman gave a lecture at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.Dr Soliman was also invited to visit Taiwan and gave lectures at Chung Yuan Christian University and at National Central University of Taiwan. In 1977, Dr. Soliman was decorated with the First Class Science Medal, from the President of Egypt, for his services to the field of Engineering and Engineering Education. Dr Soliman is a Member of the Editorial Board of the IEE Proceedings Circuits, Devices and Systems. Dr Soliman is a Member of the Editorial Board of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. Dr Soliman served as Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I (Analog Circuits and Filters) from December 2001 to December 2003 and is Associate Editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing from January 2004-Now.

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Madian, A.H., Mahmoud, S.A. & Soliman, A.M. New 1.5-V CMOS second generation current conveyor based on wide range transconductor. Analog Integr Circ Sig Process 49, 267–279 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10470-006-9703-3

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