A CMOS implementation of a high-gain current mode operational amplifier (opamp) with a single-ended input and a differential output is described. This configuration is the current mode counterpart of the traditional voltage mode opamp. In order to exploit the inherent potential for high speed, low voltage operation normally associated with current mode analog signal processing, the opamp has be...

A current amplifier is used to realize a voltage amplifier having an improved high frequency response and slew rate capability. It is shown that the closed loop bandwidth is independent of the closed loop voltage gain. The design and application of a unity gain and a high gain current amplifier to voltage signal processing circuits are given. The results demonstrate an efficient use of the inhe...

A multi-output second generation current conveyor (MOCCII), that can be used to realized first, second and third generations current conveyors, is proposed. The MOCCII consists of a CMOS differential stage for the voltage input, push-pull stage and the improved cascode current mirrors for the current output. Feedback techniques are proposed in order to provide a voltage gain of 0.991, a current...

Neuronal gain control is important for processing information in the brain. Shunting inhibition is not thought to control gain since it shifts input-output relationships during tonic excitation rather than changing their slope. Here we show that tonic inhibition reduces the gain and shifts the offset of cerebellar granule cell input-output relationships during frequency-dependent excitation wit...

Class-AB circuits, which are able to deal with currents several orders of magnitude larger than their quiescent current, are good candidates for low-power and high slew-rate analog design. This paper presents a novel topology of a class AB flipped voltage follower (FVF) that has better slew rate and the same power consumption as the conventional class-AB FVF buffer previously presented in liter...

The DC open-loop voltage Gain is a very important specification for amplifiers. In order to increase this specification, in this paper, we have proposed an improved folded cascode gain boosted amplifier (improved FCGBA) which has extremely large DC open-loop voltage gain. Compared to traditional FCGBA, this novel structure needs only one auxiliary amplifier, so it is energy saving. Finally, wit...

A novel high step-up dc–dc converter for fuel cell energy conversion is presented in this paper. The proposed converter utilizes a multiwinding coupled inductor and a voltage doubler to achieve high step-up voltage gain. The voltage on the active switch is clamped, and the energy stored in the leakage inductor is recycled. Therefore, the voltage stress on the active switch is reduced, and the c...

This work proposes a high step-up interleaved dc/dc topology utilizing a VM (voltage multiplier) cell suitable for PV applications. The VM cells D/C (Diode/Cap.) are cascaded among the phases to approach a high voltage gain. Besides, the voltage converting ratio of the presented structure can be improved by extending the VM cells and it also leads to drop in the normalized voltage stress throug...

In this paper, very high frequency (VHF) current and voltage biquadratic lowpass filters implemented directly by the linear wideband finite-gain current and voltage amplifiers, respectively, are proposed and analyzed. A new Q-enhancement circuit which consists of a finite-gain wideband tunable voltage amplifier and a Miller capacitor is also proposed. It can increase the maximum-gain frequency ...

The Conventional Boost Converters is not possible to obtain the high voltage gain. In this paper a DCDC boost converter is proposed for achieving high voltage gain and to reduce the harmonic content in the output side. The circuit diagram of the proposed converter is consists of coupled inductor. Therefore the voltage stress on the active switch is reduced due to the presence of the inductor an...