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 ...

In this paper, a coupled inductor based high step-up dc–dc converter for high step-up applications is proposed. The concept is to utilize two capacitors and one coupled inductor. The two capacitors are charged in parallel during the switch-off period and are discharged in series during the switch-on period by the energy stored in the coupled inductor to achieve a high step-up voltage gain. In a...

This paper proposes a high voltage gain dc/dc converter with coupled inductor cells and switched capacitor for renewable energy applications. It includes coupled inductor, switched capacitor and voltage multiplier cell. Switched capacitor charged during off period by using the energy stored in the coupled inductor. This will increase the performance of the converter. The voltage gain of traditi...