Design of a new low power MISO multi-mode universal biquad OTA-C filter

ABSTRACT In this article, a new low-power multiple-input, single-output (MISO) multi-mode universal biquad operational transconductance amplifier-capacitor (OTA-C) filter with a minimum number of active and passive components is proposed. The proposed filter employs three OTAs, one inverter and two grounded capacitors. The proposed filter can realise all filter frequency responses including low-pass (LP), band-pass (BP), high-pass (HP), band-stop (BS) and all-pass (AP) in all operation modes including voltage, current, tranasresistance and transconductance modes using the same topology. Furthermore, sensitivity analysis is done which shows that the proposed filter has a low sensitivity to the values of the active and passive elements. The proposed filter is simulated in HSPICE using 0.18 µm CMOS technology. The HSPICE simulation results demonstrate that the proposed filter consumes only 35 μW at 2.5 MHz from a ±0.5 V supply voltage, while all of the transistors are biased in strong inversion region. Also, the simulation results are in a close agreement with the theoretical analysis which is done in MATLAB. Furthermore, the process, voltage and temperature variation simulations are done to study the effect of non-idealities on the performance of the proposed filter. It is shown that the simulation results justify a 4.8%, 0.8% and 20% variations of the centre frequency for process, voltage and temperature, respectively. Finally, Monte-Carlo, noise and transient simulations are done to justify the good performance of the proposed filter performance.