Generalized Time- and Transfer-Constant Circuit Analysis

Author

Hajimiri, Ali

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. Eng., California Inst. of Technol., Pasadena, CA, USA

Volume

57

Issue

6

fYear

2010

fDate

6/1/2010 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1105

Lastpage

1121

Abstract

The generalized method of time and transfer constants is introduced. It can be used to determine the transfer function to the desired level of accuracy in terms of time and transfer constants of first-order systems using exclusively low frequency calculations. This method can be used to determine the poles and zeros of circuits with both inductors and capacitors. An inductive proof of this generalized method is given which subsumes special cases, such as methods of zero- and infinite-value time constants. Several important and useful corollaries of this method are discussed and several examples are analyzed.

Keywords

analogue circuits; network analysis; poles and zeros; transfer functions; analog circuit design; first-order systems; infinite-value time constants; low frequency calculations; poles and zeros; time-constant circuit analysis; transfer function; transfer-constant circuit analysis; zero-value time constants; Bandwidth enhancement techniques; Cochran-Grabel method; circuit Analysis; determination of poles and zeros; infinite-value time constants (IVT); method of time and transfer constants (TTC); zero-value time constants (ZVT);

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1549-8328

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TCSI.2009.2030092

Filename

5340556