Current Conveyors: Variants, Applications and Hardware Implementations

This book serves as a single-source reference to Current Conveyors and their use in modern Analog Circuit Design. The authors describe the various types of current conveyors discovered over the past 45 years, details of all currently available, off-the-shelf integrated circuit current conveyors, and implementations of current conveyors using other, off-the-shelf IC building blocks. Coverage includes prominent bipolar/CMOS/Bi-CMOS architectures of current conveyors, as well as all varieties of starting from third generation current conveyors to universal current conveyors, their implementations and applications.

•Describes all commercially available off-the-shelf IC current conveyors, as well as hardware implementations of current conveyors using other off-the-shelf ICs;
• Describes numerous variants of current conveyors evolved over the past forty five years;
• Describes a number of Bipolar/CMOS/Bi-CMOS architectures of current conveyors, along with their characteristic features;
• Includes a comprehensive collection of over 400 application circuits using current conveyors;
• Provides an exhaustive catalogue of current conveyor-based circuits for a variety of applications, including instrumentation amplifiers, precision rectifiers, simulated inductors, filters, sinusoidal oscillators, waveform generators, chaos generators, analog multipliers/dividers, memristive emulators and numerous others.

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).