Passive and Active Circuits by Example

This book enables readers to become familiar with passive and active realizations of the impedances and important filter transfer functions (TFs). Firstly, time, s, and frequency domain analysis of the R-L, R-C, and R-L-C circuits are discussed. Then, active realizations of the impedances and TFs using different active devices are introduced. Readers will benefit from an example-driven approach to topics such as operational amplifiers, current followers, voltage followers, unity gain inverting amplifiers, negative impedance converters, first-generation current conveyors, second-generation current conveyors, third-generation current conveyors, differential voltage current conveyors, etc. will be introduced, which will be accompanied with a number of examples. Non-ideal gain effects on the performance of the active circuits are also demonstrated.

• Introduces readers to passive and active realizations of the impedances and important filter transfer functions;
• Uses over 200 examples to explain concepts being introduced;
• Uses simple language to make the content accessible by readers with varying backgrounds.

Shahram Minaei received the B.Sc. degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran, in 1993 and the M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electronics and communication engineering from Istanbul Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey, in 1997 and 2001, respectively. He is currently a Professor at the Department of Electronics and Communications Engineering, Dogus University, Istanbul, Turkey. He has more than 190 publications in scientific journals or conference proceedings. His current field of research concerns current-mode circuits and analog signal processing. Dr. Minaei is editor of the Journal of Circuits, Systems and Computers (JCSC), International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications (IJCTA), and editor-in-chief of the AEU-International Journal of Electronics and Communications.