Abstract— This article presents a universal amplifier module
(UAM), implemented in 180 nm CMOS technology, that can be
configured to function as a (i) voltage controlled voltage source
(VCVS), (ii) current controlled current source (CCCS), (iii)
voltage controlled current source (VCCS), (iv) current
controlled voltage source (CCVS), and (v) current conveyor
(type II). As a result, the amplifier can be used to produce four
kinds of basic circuit transfer functions, i.e., voltage-, current-,
trans
Abstract— This article presents a universal amplifier module
(UAM), implemented in 180 nm CMOS technology, that can be
configured to function as a (i) voltage controlled voltage source
(VCVS), (ii) current controlled current source (CCCS), (iii)
voltage controlled current source (VCCS), (iv) current
controlled voltage source (CCVS), and (v) current conveyor
(type II). As a result, the amplifier can be used to produce four
kinds of basic circuit transfer functions, i.e., voltage-, current-,
trans
Abstract— This article presents a universal amplifier module
(UAM), implemented in 180 nm CMOS technology, that can be
configured to function as a (i) voltage controlled voltage source
(VCVS), (ii) current controlled current source (CCCS), (iii)
voltage controlled current source (VCCS), (iv) current
controlled voltage source (CCVS), and (v) current conveyor
(type II). As a result, the amplifier can be used to produce four
kinds of basic circuit transfer functions, i.e., voltage-, current-,
trans
Abstract— This article presents a universal amplifier module
(UAM), implemented in 180 nm CMOS technology, that can be configured to function as a (i) voltage controlled voltage source (VCVS), (ii) current controlled current source (CCCS), (iii) voltage controlled current source (VCCS), (iv) current controlled voltage source (CCVS), and (v) current conveyor (type II). As a result, the amplifier can be used to produce four kinds of basic circuit transfer functions, i.e., voltage-, current-, transadmittance- and transimpedance- transfer functions. This is validated by presenting simulation results for a second order voltage, current, transadmittance and transimpedance bandpass filter (BPF) transfer functions using only three UAM devices. The device is expected to be useful in a complex VLSI system environment where interfacing between sub-systems with varied impedance levels is required. Keywords— Universal amplifier module (UAM), CMOS analog integrated circuits, Voltage and current mode signal processing, Transadmittance filter (TAF), Transimpedance filter (TIF). I. INTRODUCTION The Advent of CMOS technology has facilitated the invention of several analog amplifiers, such as operational amplifiers, operational transconductance amplifiers etc. [1- 2]. These amplifiers have been used for both voltage and current mode signal processing. In the recent past people have introduced new circuit modules that can produce voltage and current mode transfer functions only [3-4]. In this article we report a UAM that can be configured as any one of the four basic electronic amplifiers (i.e., VCVS, VCCS, CCVS, CCCS) as well as a type II Current Conveyor (CCII). The UAM introduced by us can produce transadmittance-, and transimpedance- transfer functions, in addition to voltage and current-mode transfer functions. Thus it can be used to produce four kinds of transfer functions. In section II, the design principles of the proposed UAM with different sub-systems are discussed and principles of implementing the four basic amplifiers as well as a CCII with the UAM are described. In section III, several performance parameters measured by HSPICE simulation on the post layout extracted data file are presented. Section IV presents the configurations for realizing second-order bandpass filters as voltage-, transadmittance, curren- and transimpedance transfer functions using only three UAM devices. The response curves for all the four filter transfer functions are presented. Section V concludes the article. II. THE AMPLIFIER MODULE