Design of wide-tunable translinear second-order oscillators

Author

Serdijn, Wouter A. ; Mulder, Jan ; van der Woerd, Albert C. ; Van Roermund, Arthur H M

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

Volume

2

fYear

1997

fDate

9-12 Jun 1997

Firstpage

829

Abstract

This paper introduces a translinear second-order oscillator that is a direct implementation of a non-linear second-order differential equation. It comprises only two capacitors and a handful of transistors and can be controlled over a very wide frequency range by only one control current. A breadboard version, using transistor arrays, proves the correct operation of the proposed circuit. The oscillator frequency equals 25 kHz, while the total harmonic distortion equals 2.4%

Keywords

SPICE; circuit analysis computing; circuit tuning; harmonic distortion; nonlinear differential equations; nonlinear network synthesis; oscillators; 25 kHz; SPICE; breadboard version; circuit simulation; nonlinear second-order differential equation; oscillator frequency; total harmonic distortion; transistor arrays; translinear second-order oscillator design; very wide frequency range; wide tunability; Capacitors; Circuit synthesis; Differential equations; Filtering; Frequency; Nonlinear distortion; Nonlinear filters; Oscillators; Resistors; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1997. ISCAS '97., Proceedings of 1997 IEEE International Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3583-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1997.621841

Filename

621841