Current Conveyors (eBook)

Raj Senani received B.Sc. from Lucknow University, B.Sc. Engg. from HBTI, Kanpur, M.E. (Honors) from MNNIT, Allahabad and Ph.D. in Electrical Engg. from University of Allahabad, India. Dr. Senani became a Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Institute of Technology, now known as Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), New Delhi, in 1990 and has held the positions of Head and Dean of various Departments, as well as Institute Director, a number of times since then. He is currently functioning as the Director of NSIT since October 2008. His areas of research interest are Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and he has authored/co-authored over 140 research papers in International Journals, four book chapters and one monograph on `Current feedback Operational Amplifiers and their Applications’ (Springer 2013). He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IETE Journal on Education and an Associate Editor for Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, since 2003. Professor Senani is a Senior Member of IEEE and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India, in 2008. He is the recipient of Second Laureate of the 25th Khwarizmi International Award for the year 2012.  D. R. Bhaskar received B.Sc. from Agra University, B. Tech. from IIT, Kanpur, M.Tech. from IIT, Delhi and Ph.D. from University of Delhi. Dr. Bhaskar held the positions of Assistant Engineer in DESU (1981-1984), Lecturer (1984-1990) and Senior Lecturer (1990-1995) at the EE Department of Delhi College of Engineering and Reader in ECE Department of Jamia Millia Islamia (1995-2002).  Dr. Bhaskar became a full Professor of ECE at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, in January 2002 and has served as the Head of the Department of ECE during 2002-2005. Professor Bhaskar is a Senior Member of IEEE. His areas of research  interest are Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and he has authored/co-authored over 70 research papers in International Journals, three book chapters and one monograph on `Current feedback Operational Amplifiers and their Applications’ (Springer 2013).A. K. Singh received M.Tech. in ECE from IASED and Ph. D in Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing from NSIT, University of Delhi. Dr. Singh is currently working as a Professor of ECE at HRCT Group of Institutions, Ghaziabad, India, since 2009. His areas of research interest are Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and he has published 40 papers in International Journals, three book chapters and one monograph on `Current feedback Operational Amplifiers and their Applications’ (Springer 2013). 

Part I Evolution and hardware implementation of Current Conveyors.- The evolution and the history of Current Conveyors.- Hardware implementations of CCs using off-the-shelf ICs.- Integratable Bipolar CC architectures and commercially available IC CCs.- CMOS implementations of Current Conveyors.- Part II The early (First generation) applications of basic CCI and CCII.- Basic analog circuit building blocks using CCs and application of CCs in impedance synthesis.- First, Second and Higher order filter design using Current Conveyors.- Realization of Sinusoidal Oscillators Using CCs.- Nonlinear Applications of CCs.- Part III Different variants of Current Conveyors, their implementations and Applications.- Second Generation Controlled Current Conveyors (CCCII) and their applications.- Varieties of Current Conveyors.- Other building blocks having MTC or CC at front-end and their applications.- Part IV Second generation applications: Realization of various Linear/Nonlinear functions using other types of Current Conveyors.- Analog Filter Design Revisited: Circuit configurations using newer varieties of CCs.- Sinusoidal Oscillators realizations using other types of Current Conveyors.- Second generation applications of other types of Current Conveyors in realizing Synthetic impedances.- Second generation Miscellaneous Linear/Nonlinear applications of various types of Current Conveyors.- Part V Concluding Remarks and References for further reading.- Recent advances and future directions of research.