Voltage Controlled Integrator and Linear Quadrature-VCO Using MMCC

P. Venkateswaran (Jadavpur University)
R. Nandi (Jadavpur University)
Sagarika Das (B.P.Poddar Institute of Management & Technology)

Bulletin of Electrical Engineering and Informatics
Vol 2, No 2: June 2013

A Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO) based on the new multiplication-mode current conveyor (MMCC) building block is presented. The oscillator is realized using a double integrator loop (DIL) where a linear frequency (fo) versus the control voltage (Vc) tuning characteristics with quadrature sinusoid signal generation in a range of 40  kHz ≤ fo≤ 700   kHz had been experimentally verified. The fo─ sensitivity is low while the frequency stability factor (Sf >>1) is high at satisfactory values of total harmonic distortion (THD ≈ 1.11%).