This book enables readers to become familiar with passive and active realizations of the impedances and important filter transfer functions (TFs). Firstly, time, s, and frequency domain analysis of the R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits are discussed. Then, active realizations of the impedances and TFs using different active devices are introduced. Readers will benefit from an example-driven approach to topics such as operational amplifiers, current followers, voltage followers, unity gain inverting amplifiers, negative impedance converters, first-generation current conveyors, second-generation current conveyors, third-generation current conveyors, differential voltage current conveyors, etc. will be introduced, which will be accompanied with a number of examples. Non-ideal gain effects on the performance of the active circuits are also demonstrated.
Erkan Yuce was born in 1969 in Nigde, Turkey. He received the B.Sc. degree from Middle East Technical University, the M.Sc. degree from Pamukkale University and the Ph.D. degree from Bogazici University all in Electrical and Electronics Engineering in 1994, 1998 and 2006, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Electrical and Electronics Engineering Department of Pamukkale University. His current research interests include analog circuits, active filters, synthetic inductors, and MOS transistor based circuits. He is the author or co-author of about 190 papers published in scientific journals or conference proceedings. He is an assistant editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Electronics and Communications (AEU).
Shahram Minaei received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1993 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and communication engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has more than 190 publications in scientific journals or conference proceedings. His current field of research concerns current-mode circuits and analog signal processing. Dr. Minaei is editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC), International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (IJCTA), and editor-in-chief of the AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications.
