• The on-chip op amp of the PIC16F785 is used to amplify the voltage across the current sensing resistor. This allows a much smaller sensing resistor to be used and reduces power dissipation. • The PIC16HV785 device can be used, which eliminates the requirement for an external 5V regulator when operating from higher supply voltages. • This application has unused analog resources which could be ...

A new circuit for realization of universal current-mode filter using current Follower Transconductance Amplifiers (CFTAs) is presented. The proposed circuit realizes current-mode low pass, high pass and band pass filter functions simultaneously with a single current source at the input. The band reject and all pass filters can also be obtained from the proposed circuit without any extra hardwar...

In this letter, we utilize an electrical analysis method to develop a TaN thin film resistor with a stricter spec and near-zero temperature coefficient of resistance (TCR) for car-used electronic applications. Simultaneously, we also propose a physical mechanism mode to explain the origin of near-zero TCR for the TaN thin film resistor (TFR). Through current fitting, the carrier conduction mech...

This paper presents a new simple configuration to realize the voltage-controlled floating resistor, which is suitable for integrated circuit implementation. The proposed resistor is composed of three main components: MOS transistor operating in the non-saturation region, DDCC, and MOS voltage divider. The MOS transistor operating in the non-saturation region is used to configure a floating line...

The contribution is concerned on structural properties and general features of the new ideal circuit element, a memristor. By definition, a memristor relates the charge q and the magnetic flux φ in a circuit, and complements a resistor R, a capacitor C, and an inductor L as an ingredient of ideal electrical circuits. The definition of the memristor is based solely on fundamental circuit variabl...

Synchronization phenomena in complex systems are important to describe various higher-dimensional nonlinear phenomena in the field of natural science. Studies on synchronization phenomena of coupled oscillators are extensively carried out in various fields; physics, biology, engineering and so on [1][4]. Because many researchers suggest that synchronization phenomena of coupled oscillators have...

The emerging electro-mechanical impedance technology has high potential for in-situ health monitoring and NDE of structural systems and complex machinery. At first, the fundamental principles of the electro-mechanical impedance method are briefly reviewed and ways for practical implementation are highlighted. The equations of piezo-electric material response are given, and the coupled electro-m...

We report on the development of a metrological multiaxis nanopositioning device, which is operated by the piezo-based inertial method, as a sample stage for scanning probe microscopy. It has long moving range, unlimited in principle, and nanometer ~microradian! resolution. Two operation methods, inertial sliding and inertial walking, can be applied to the stage and the inertial operating method...