Multiple-input translinear element networks

Author

Minch, Bradley A. ; Hasler, Paul ; Diorio, Chris

Author_Institution

Sch. of Electr. Eng., Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY, USA

Volume

1

fYear

1998

Firstpage

88

Abstract

We describe a class of nonlinear circuits that accurately embody product-of-power-law relationships in the current signal domain. We call these circuits multiple-input translinear element (MITE) networks. A MITE is a circuit element that produces an output current that is exponential in a weighted sum of its input voltages. We describe intuitively the basic operation of MITE networks and we show experimental data from a squaring-reciprocal circuit breadboarded from bipolar-floating-gate MOS (biFGMOS) MITEs that we fabricated in a 2-μm double-poly CMOS process available through MOSIS

Keywords

CMOS analogue integrated circuits; VLSI; analogue processing circuits; nonlinear network analysis; 2 micron; MITE; VLSI; analogue information processing; biFGMOS; bipolar-floating-gate MOS; current signal domain; double-poly CMOS process; multiple-input translinear element networks; nonlinear circuits; output current; product-of-power-law relationships; squaring-reciprocal circuit; weighted sum; Analog circuits; CMOS process; Diodes; Ear; Feedback; Information processing; Nonlinear circuits; Signal processing; Very large scale integration; Voltage;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 1998. ISCAS '98. Proceedings of the 1998 IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

Monterey, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4455-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISCAS.1998.704193

Filename

704193