This paper introduces a novel electronic system for simplex low-bitrate infra-red (IR) communication applications. The transmitter is implemented completely by analog building blocks, formed with the help of a recently fabricated chip that includes active elements allowing various modular interconnections. For the design of this chip, the ON Semiconductor C035 0.35µm I3T25 technology was chosen due to the trade-off between cost, efficiency and obtainable parameters. The designed transmitter operates as a voltageto-duty cycle converter, using pulse width modulation that causes ON/OFF keying of the carrier signal for infra-red (IR) diode. The duty cycle variable between 7% and 83% is modulated by the input voltage (in the range of ±0.8 V) of the transmitter. The use case of the proposed concept in the measurement of illuminance within the range of 30 lx and 550 lx is also presented. The quality of the transmission was evaluated as the error between the transmitted and received values of the duty cycle (kept mostly below 10 %). The maximal power consumption of the transmitter reaches 180 mW.
A unit cell of squared shaped polarization-insensitive switchable metamaterial absorber/reflector is presented. The structure operates at 10.20 GHz under both absorber mode and reflector mode configurations. Copper wire bridging the gaps to form a circular shape structure were used as switches for operation mode selections. The structure was designed on an FR4 substrate, and the incidental wave angles were varied from 0 to 50 degrees. The structure demonstrated almost 100% absorption at resonance, 3.314 GHz percentage bandwidth at 80% as an absorber. On the other hand, as reflector, it demonstrated almost a 90% reflection and a usable bandwidth of 3.327 GHz.
The design of voltage-mode multiphase sinusoidal oscillator (MSO) is presented. The odd phase system can be realized using voltage differencing differential difference amplifier (VDDDA)-based lossy integrators. The condition of oscillation and frequency of oscillation can be controlled independently through adjusting the bias current of the VDDDA. The low output impedances facilitate easy driving an external load without additional voltage buffers. The proposed MSO provides odd phase signals that are equally spaced in phase and equal amplitude. The circuit requires one VDDDA, two resistors and one grounded capacitor per phase without external resistor and additional current amplifier. The results of PSPICE simulations using 0.18s TSMC CMOS technology are included to verify theory.
This paper introduces novel modification of active element based on current conveyor transconductance amplifier core abbreviated as current controlled voltage differencing current conveyor differential input transconductance amplifier (CC-VDCCDITA). The active element is implemented by recently developed and manufactured IC modular device based on I3T25 0.35 µm ON Semiconductor CMOS process. Active element uses three internal active cells of this IC device for construction of the CC-VDCCDITA. An application example of proposed element in simple special resistor-less electronically adjustable biquadratic filter is shown. Brief comparison with state-of-the-art solutions indicates beneficial features of proposed solution. Simulation results in Cadence IC tool accompany precise laboratory experimental measurements with real prototype.
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