Active filter

• US 5,124,592 A
• Filed: 02/13/1991
• Issued: 06/23/1992
• Est. Priority Date: 02/14/1990
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Kabushiki Kaisha Toshiba (Toshiba Corporation)
• Inventors: Hagino, Hideyuki
• Primary Examiner(s): Pascal, Robert J.
• Application Number:
  US07/655,547
• Time in Patent Office: 496 Days
• Field of Search: 307/231, 307/520, 307/521, 328/167, 330/252, 330/293, 330/306
• US Class Current: 327/552
• CPC Class Codes: H03H 11/0422 using transconductance amplifiers, e.g. gmC filters

Abstract

An input signal is supplied to the non-inverting input terminal of a current differential amplifier. A capacitor is connected between the output terminal of the current differential amplifier and a power source and the capacitor stores charges according to an output signal of the current differential amplifier. The input signal and an output signal of the current differential amplifier are supplied to resistors via buffer circuits and signals divided by the resistors are added together by a buffer circuit and output from an output terminal and at the same time fed back to the inverting input terminal of the current differential amplifier.

Claims

1. An active filter comprising:

a current differential amplifier having an inverting input terminal, a non-inverting input terminal and an output terminal and supplied with an input signal at the non-inverting input terminal;

a capacitor connected between the output terminal of said current differential amplifier and a power source, for storing charges according to an output signal of said current differential amplifier; and

an adding circuit for adding the input signal and the output signal of said current differential amplifier, the input signal and the output signal being divided by means of resistors, and an output signal of said adding circuit being supplied to an output terminal and to the inverting input terminal of said current differential amplifier.

2. An active filter according to claim 1, wherein said adding circuit comprises:

a first buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to the non-inverting input terminal of said current differential amplifier;

a first resistor connected at one end to an output terminal of said first buffer circuit;

a second buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to the output terminal of said current differential amplifier;

a second resistor connected at one end to an output terminal of said second buffer circuit; and

a third buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to the other ends of said first and second resistors and an output terminal connected to the output terminal and to the inverting input terminal of said current differential amplifier.

3. An active filter according to claim 1, wherein said power source is a ground potential.

4. An active filter comprising:

a filter input terminal supplied with an input signal;

a current differential amplifier having an inverting input terminal, a non-inverting input terminal and an output terminal and the non-inverting input terminal being connected to said filter input terminal;

a capacitor connected between the output terminal of said current differential amplifier and a first power source potential, for storing changes according to an output signal of said current differential amplifier;

a first buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to said filter input terminal;

a first resistor connected at one end to an output terminal of said first buffer circuit;

a second buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to the output terminal of said current differential amplifier;

a second resistor connected at one end to an output terminal of said second buffer circuit;

a third buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to the other ends of said first and second resistors and an output terminal connected to the inverting input terminal of said current differential amplifier; and

a filter output terminal connected to the output terminal of said third buffer circuit.

5. An active filter according to claim 4, wherein said first power source potential is a ground potential.

6. An active filter according to claim 4, wherein said current differential amplifier comprises:

a first transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the base of said first transistor being connected to said filter input terminal and the collector thereof being connected to a second power source potential;

a third resistor connected at one end to the emitter of said first transistor;

a second transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the collector and base of said second transistor being connected to the other end of said third resistor;

a first constant current source connected between the emitter of said second transistor and the first power source potential;

a third transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the base of said third transistor being connected to the other end of said first resistor and the collector thereof being connected to the second power source potential;

a fourth transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the emitter of said fourth transistor being connected to the emitter of said third transistor;

a second constant current source connected between the emitter of said fourth transistor and the first power source potential;

a third constant current source connected between the collector of said fourth transistor and the second power source potential;

a fifth transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the base and collector of said fifth transistor being connected to the base of said fourth transistor and the emitter thereof being connected to the emitter of said second transistor;

a fourth resistor connected at one end to the collector of said fifth transistor; and

a sixth transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the emitter of said sixth transistor being connected to the other end of said fourth resistor, the base thereof being connected to said filter output terminal, and the collector thereof being connected to the second power source potential;

wherein said capacitor is connected between the collector of said fourth transistor and the first power source potential and an output terminal of said current differential amplifier is a connection node between the collector of said fourth transistor and said third constant current source.

7. An active filter according to claim 4, wherein said first buffer circuit comprises:

a transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the base of said transistor being connected to said filter input terminal and the collector thereof being connected to the second power source potential; and

a constant current source connected between the emitter of said transistor and the first power source potential.

8. An active filter according to claim 4, wherein said second buffer circuit comprises:

a transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the base of said transistor being connected to the output terminal of said current differential amplifier and the collector thereof being connected to the second power source potential; and

a constant current source connected between the emitter of said transistor and the first power source potential.

9. An active filter according to claim 4, wherein said third buffer circuit comprises:

a transistor having a base, collector and emitter, the base of said transistor being connected to the other ends of said first and second resistors and the collector thereof being connected to the first power source potential; and

a constant current source connected between the emitter of said transistor and the second power source potential.

10. An active filter comprising:

a filter input terminal for receiving an input signal;

a current differential amplifier having inverting input terminal, a non-inverting input terminal coupled to said filter input terminal, and an output terminal for outputting a differential amplifier output signal; and

an adding circuit for adding the input signal and the differential amplifier output signal, said adding circuit having input terminals for receiving the input signal and the differential amplifier output signal and an output terminal for outputting an adding circuit output signal, the inverting input of said current differential amplifier coupled to the output terminal of said adding circuit; and

a filter output terminal coupled to the output terminal of said adding circuit.

11. The active filter according to claim 10 further comprising:

a capacitor coupled between the output terminal of said current differential amplifier and a first power source potential for storing a charge corresponding to the differential amplifier output signal.

12. The active filter according to claim 10, wherein said adding circuit comprises:

a first buffer circuit having an input terminal coupled to receive the input signal;

a first resistor having a first terminal coupled to an output terminal of said first buffer circuit;

a second buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to the output terminal of said current differential amplifier;

a second resistor having a first terminal coupled to an output terminal of said second buffer circuit; and

a third buffer circuit having an input terminal connected to second terminals of said first and second resistors and an output terminal for outputting the adding circuit output signal.

13. The active filter according to claim 12, wherein said first buffer circuit comprises:

a transistor having a base coupled to said filter input terminal, a collector coupled to the second power source potential, and an emitter; and

a constant current source coupled between the emitter of said transistor and the first power source potential.

14. The active filter according to claim 12, wherein said second buffer circuit comprises:

a transistor having a base coupled to the output terminal of said current differential amplifier, a collector coupled to the second power source potential and an emitter; and

a constant current source coupled between the emitter of said transistor and the first power source potential.

15. The active filter according to claim 12, wherein said third buffer circuit comprises:

a transistor having a base coupled to the second terminals of said first and second resistors, a collector coupled to the first power source potential, and an emitter; and

a constant current source coupled between the emitter of said transistor and the second power source potential.

16. The active filter according to claim 10, wherein said current differential amplifier comprises:

a first transistor having a base, collector, and emitter, the base coupled to receive the input signal and the collector coupled to a second power source potential;

a first resistor having a first terminal coupled to the emitter of said first transistor;

a second transistor having a base, collector, and emitter, the base and collector coupled to the second terminal of said first resistor;

a first constant current source coupled between the emitter of said second transistor and the first power source potential;

a third transistor having a base, collector, and emitter, the base coupled to the second terminal of said first resistor and the collector coupled to the first power source potential, and an emitter;

a fourth transistor having a base, collector, and emitter, the emitter coupled to the emitter of said third transistor;

a second constant current source coupled between the coupled emitters of said third and fourth transistors and the first power source potential;

a third constant current source coupled between the collector of said fourth transistor and the second source potential;

a fifth transistor having a base, collector, and emitter, the base and the collector coupled to the base of said fourth transistor and the emitter coupled to the emitter of said second transistor;

a fourth resistor having a first terminal coupled to the collector of said fifth transistor; and

a sixth transistor having a base, collector, and emitter, the emitter coupled to a second terminal of said fourth resistor, the collector coupled to the second power source potential, and the base for outputting the differential amplifier output signal.