In this paper, a CMOS radio frequency (RF) multi-band band-pass amplifier using a high-Q active inductor load with a binary code band selector suitable for multi-standards wireless applications is proposed. By employing the improved high-Q active inductor including two bits binary controlled code, the RF multi-band amplifier operating at four different frequency bands is realized. The proposed ...

In airborne AC power system, input current may distort at the vicinity of input voltage zero crossing in Power Factor Correction (PFC) converter. This paper is analyzed the essential causes of the zero-crossing distortion and points out that the major causes are the value of inductor and the phase displacement between input current and input voltage. By adopting parallel interleaving technique,...

In this work, we present new topologies for realizing one lossless grounded inductor and two floating, one lossless and one lossy, inductors employing a single differential difference current conveyor (DDCC) and a minimum number of passive components, two resistors, and one grounded capacitor. The floating inductors are based on ordinary dual-output differential difference current conveyor (DO-...

A CMOS broadband amplifier with high-Q active inductor using 0.25um CMOS process is presented. In this broadband amplifier, the compact high-Q active inductor is connected to the common-gate configuration to improve the performance of the high power gain, wide bandwidth, low power consumption and simple matching characteristics. Not using any passive inductor components is to be reduced the are...

A novel high step-up DC-DC converter with coupled-inductor and switched-capacitor techniques is proposed in this paper. The capacitors are charged in parallel and are discharged in series by the coupled inductor, stacking on the output capacitor. Thus, the proposed converter can achieve high step-up voltage gain with appropriate duty ratio. Besides, the voltage spike on the main switch can be c...

In this paper, a three-phase AC-DC high step-up converter is developed for application to microscale wind-power generation systems. Such an AC-DC boost converter prossessess the property of the single-switch high step-up DC-DC structure. For power factor correction, the advanced half-stage converter is operated under the discontinuous conduction mode (DCM). Simulatanously, to achieve a high ste...

The design of CMOS based low pass filter for analog-to-digital, digital-to-analog and audio applications is described in this paper. Active load resistor and floating inductor is used for the implementation of low pass filter. CMOS technology has become dominant over bipolar technology for analog circuits design in mixed signal system. The differential floating active inductor is designed with ...

A 5V-2.5V fully-integrated low-power buck converter was designed and implemented using 0.5μm CMOS technology. The critical circuits of the high frequency controller and an on-chip multi-layer spiral inductor were presented. The structure of multi-layer spiral inductor having parallel and series branches of the metal strip. As the result that the parallel branching structure greatly reduced the ...

In the context of autonomous sensors powered by small-size photovoltaic (PV) panels, this work analyses how the efficiency of DC/DC-converter-based power processing circuits can be improved by an appropriate selection of the inductor current that transfers the energy from the PV panel to a storage unit. Each component of power losses (fixed, conduction and switching losses) involved in the DC/D...

— Various model parameter calculation equations of RF CMOS inductors are compared. The calculation equations are using as variables either Y, Z-parameters or S-parameters. Results are based on on-wafer RF S-parameter measurements of a 3.75 turn spiral inductor fabricated in AMIS 0.7 μm CMOS DM1P n-well technology. Results obtained with calculation equations for a differentially driven inductor ...