A low voltage floating resistor having positive and negative resistance values

Author

Tantry, Shashidhar ; Oura, Takao ; Yoneyama, Teru ; Asai, Hideki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Syst. Eng., Shizuoka Univ., Hamamatsu, Japan

Volume

1

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

347

Abstract

In this paper, we propose a low voltage-floating resistor having both positive and negative resistance values. The circuit uses only two transistors between the supply voltages, which enables the circuit to operate at low supply voltages. The gate terminal is used in this circuit for the current addition/subtraction at input/output terminals of the floating resistor. As a result, it is possible to make the current flow even if power supply voltage is reduced. The characteristic of the proposed circuit is verified using HSPICE for the power supply ±1.5 V.

Keywords

CMOS integrated circuits; MOSFET; SPICE; integrated circuit modelling; low-power electronics; negative resistance devices; resistors; 1.5 V; CMOS technology; HSPICE verification; circuit transistors; current addition/subtraction; current flow; gate terminal; input/output terminals; low voltage floating resistor; negative resistance values; positive resistance values; power supply voltage; Capacitance; Electron mobility; Equivalent circuits; Low voltage; MOSFETs; Mirrors; Proportional control; Resistors; Threshold voltage; Transconductance;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Circuits and Systems, 2002. APCCAS '02. 2002 Asia-Pacific Conference on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7690-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APCCAS.2002.1114967

Filename

1114967