A tutorial of CMOS active resistor circuits will be presented in this paper. The main advantages of the proposed implementations are the improved linearity, the small area consumption and the improved frequency response. In order to improve their linearity, improved performances linearization techniques will be proposed, with additional care for compensating the errors introduced by second-order effects. Design techniques for minimizing the silicon area consumption will be further presented and FGMOS (Floating Gate MOS) transistors will be used for this purpose. The frequency response of the circuits is very good as a result of biasing all MOS transistors in the saturation region and of a current-mode operation of an important part of their blocks. Additionally, small changing in each design allows to obtain negative controllable equivalent resistance circuits. The circuits are implemented in CMOS technology, SPICE simulations confirming the theoretical estimated results, showing small values of the linearity error (under 0.15% for the best design) for an extended input range and for a supply voltage equal with ±3 V. The proposed circuits respond to low-voltage low-power requirements, their design being adapted to the continuous degradation of the model quality associated with the evolution toward latest nanotechnologies.
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