High Tc superconductor (HTS) technology has been used to develop an advanced high Q resonant circuit and its devices. With a HTS, a very high Q circuit can be achieved; consequently special aspects such as high voltage generation and high current control can be theoretically and practically realized. Theoretical study has been carried out, as well as a practical approach has been made for the c...

A high-speed and high-accuracy continuous-time common-mode feedback block (CMFB) is presented. To satisfy speed and accuracy requirements, some modi ̄cations have been applied on di®erential di®erence ampli ̄er (DDA) CMFB circuit. The proposed method is applied to a folded cascode op-amp with power supply of 3.3V. In order to verify the proposed circuit, simulations are done in 0.35 m standard CM...

An active filter-based on-chip DC–DC voltage converter for application to distributed on-chip power supplies in multivoltage systems is described in this paper. No inductor or output capacitor is required in the proposed converter. The area of the voltage converter is therefore significantly less than that of a conventional low-dropout (LDO) regulator. Hence, the proposed circuit is appropriate...

In design of a parallel resonant induction heating system, choosing a proper capacitancefor the resonant circuit is quite important. The capacitance affects the resonant frequency, outputpower, Q-factor, heating efficiency and power factor. In this paper, the role of equivalent seriesresistance (ESR) in the choice of capacitance is significantly recognized. Optimal value of resonancecapacitor i...

In this paper, a new low-VDD CMOS bandgap reference circuit with small layout area and low power consumption is proposed. The proposed circuit delivering its output voltage below 1V has its Proportional-To-Absolute-Temperature (PTAT) term compensated by the Complementary-proportional-To-AbsoluteTemperature (CTAT) voltage thereby suppressing a change in its output voltage regardless of temperatu...

A high-linearity and high-speed current-mode sampleand-hold circuit is designed and simulated using a 0.25μm CMOS technology. This circuit design is based on low voltage and it utilizes a fully differential circuit. Due to the use of only two switches the switch related noise has been reduced. Signal dependent -error is completely eliminated by a new zero voltage switching technique. The circui...

This paper presents an improved Zero-Voltage-Transition Technique (ZVTTechnique) in a single-phase active power factor correction circuit based on a dc-dc boost converter topology and operated in a continuous-inductor-current mode with fixed-switching frequency control. An additional circuit for reducing the turn-off switching loss of the auxiliary switching circuit was applied. Experimental wo...

In this paper we describe a new architecture of a frequcncy-lo-voltage convcrtcr VVC) :md iLs high frequency intcgrated applications. The circuit is of a rcduccd complexity and its CMOS implcmcnlalion requires a very small area. Besides its small integration arca, thc circuit is vcry fast and has many inlcrcsting high frequcncy applications. This FVC is used to build an integrated high-precisio...

This paper describes the design of a bandgap reference, implemented in 0.50 μm CMOS technology. The circuit generates a reference voltage of 1.2218V. It can operate between 20oC & 70o C. Total variation of reference voltage within the temperature range is 2.6mV which is 0.213% of the reference voltage. This circuit works in a current feedback mode, and it generates its own reference current, re...

A high-linearity and high-speed current-mode sampleand-hold circuit is designed and simulated using a 0.25μm CMOS technology. This circuit design is based on low voltage and it utilizes a fully differential circuit. Due to the use of only two switches the switch related noise has been reduced. Signal dependent -error is completely eliminated by a new zero voltage switching technique. The circui...