Advances in Electronics
Volume 2015 (2015), Article ID 382360, 7 pages
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/382360

Research Article

All Pass Network Based MSO Using OTRA

Rajeshwari Pandey,¹ Neeta Pandey,¹ Romita Mullick,¹ Sarjana Yadav,¹ and Rashika Anurag²

¹Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, Delhi Technological University, Delhi 110042, India
²Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering, JSS Academy of Technical Education, C-20/1, Sector 62, Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301, India

Received 24 August 2014; Accepted 1 December 2014

Academic Editor: Liwen Sang

Copyright © 2015 Rajeshwari Pandey et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Abstract.

This paper presents multiphase sinusoidal oscillators (MSOs) using operational transresistance amplifier (OTRA) based all pass networks. Both even and odd phase oscillations of equal amplitudes which are equally spaced in phase can be produced using single all pass section per phase. The proposed MSOs provide voltage output and can readily be used for driving voltage input circuits without increasing component count. The effect of nonideality of OTRA on the circuit performance is also analysed. The functionality of the proposed circuit is verified through PSPICE simulations.

1. Introduction

Multiphase sinusoidal oscillators (MSO) provide multiple outputs of the same frequency, equally spaced in phase, and find extensive application in the field of communications, instrumentation, and power electronics. In communications MSO circuits are used in single-sideband generators, phase modulators, and quadrature mixers [1]. Selective voltmeters and vector generator are common applications of MSOs in the field of instrumentation [2]. In power electronics three-phase MSOs are frequently utilized in PWM converters [3] and inverters [4].

A large number of MSO realizations using various analog building blocks (ABB) [2, 5–25] are available in literature. These MSOs are based on a basic design philosophy of forming closed loop using    cascaded phase shifting networks thereby producing equally spaced phases. For phase shifting either first-order low pass networks (LPNs) [5–7, 9–21, 24, 25] or first-order all pass networks (APNs) [2, 8, 22, 23] are used. These reported structures provide either voltage [5–16] or current [2, 17–24] outputs.

The MSOs of [5–8] are realized using operational amplifiers (op-amps). However due to constant gain-bandwidth product and lower slew rate of the op-amps, their high frequency operations are limited. Additionally the active implementations of [5, 6] lack tunability as these structures make use of the op-amp parasitic capacitance. The current feedback operational amplifier (CFOA) based MSO structure [9] is capable of producing high frequencies but requires an accessible compensation terminal of a CFOA. The MSOs of [10, 11] are OTA based electronically tunable structures; however, they provide voltage output at high impedance making a buffer necessary to drive the voltage input circuits. In addition, for both the structures the output voltage is temperature sensitive too. The MSO configurations presented in [12–15] are CC based designs and provide voltage output at high impedance. Further the MSO of [14], being active structure, lacks tunability. Three topologies of OTRA based MSOs are proposed in [16] and are designed using LPNs. The structures proposed in [2, 17–25] provide current outputs which need to be converted back to voltage for circuits requiring voltage inputs, which would considerably increase the component count. A detailed comparison of these structures is given in Table 1 which suggests that OTRA based MSO is the most suitable choice for voltage output.

Table 1: Detailed comparison of available MSOs.

Reference
ABB
Phase shift network
Output
Output impedance
Tunability

[2]
CCCDTA
APN
Current
High
Yes

[5]
Op-amp
LPN
Voltage
Low
No

[6]
Op-amp
LPN
Voltage
Low
No

[7]
Op-amp
LPN
Voltage
Low
Yes

[8]
Op-amp
APN
Voltage
Yes
Yes

[9]
CFOA
LPN
Voltage
No
Yes

[10]
OTA
LPN
Voltage
High
Yes

[11]
OTA
LPN
Voltage
High
Yes

[12]
CCII
LPN
Voltage
High
Yes

[13]
CCII
LPN
Voltage
High
Yes

[14]
CCII
LPN
Voltage
High
No

[15]
CCII
LPN
Voltage
High
Yes

[16]
OTRA
LPN
Voltage
Low
Yes

[17]
Current follower
LPN
Current
High
Yes

[18]
CCII
LPN
Current
High
Yes

[19]
CCII
LPN
Current
High
Yes

[20]
CCII
LPN
Current
High
Yes

[21]
CDTA
LPN
Current
High
Yes

[22]
CDTA
APN
Current
High
Yes

[23]
CDTA
APN
Current
High
Yes

[24]
CC
LPN
Current
High
Yes

[25]
CFTA
LPN
Current
High
Yes

Proposed work
OTRA
APN
Voltage
Low
Yes

In this paper authors aim at presenting OTRA based MSO, designed using APNs. The proposed circuit utilizes    APNs to produce phase oscillations of equal amplitudes with a phase difference of ()°. The APN can produce a phase shift up to 180° as against a maximum of 90° produced by LPN. As a result the APN based scheme can be used to implement an even phase system for also whereas is the minimum for the systems designed using LPNs [8].

2. Circuit Description

In this section the generalized APN based MSO scheme [8] is described first which is followed by the design adaption using OTRA.

2.1. The APN Based MSO Design Scheme

The APN based MSO structure consists of cascaded first-order APN blocks. The output of the th stage is fed back to the input of the first stage thus forming a closed loop as shown in Figure 1(a). The output of th stage is fed back directly for odd phase system whereas for even phase system it is inverted, for sustained oscillations. In case of even phased system the structure can be modified for obtaining even phased oscillations by replacing APN with inverters as shown in Figure 1(b).

(a)

(b)

Figure 1: Generalized APN based MSO structure for producing phase oscillations. (a) Odd phased oscillations. (b) Even phased oscillations.

The transfer function of each APN block is given by

where represents the gain and time constant determines the corner frequency of the APN. The phase of each APN block is computed to be

Thus an APN can introduce signal phase lag from 0 to 180° as frequency varies from zero to infinity. From Figure 1 the open loop gain can be expressed as

The Barkhausen criterion [26] for sustained oscillations at a frequency can be expressed by

Since , (4) results in condition of oscillation (CO) as

Substituting from (2) in (5) total phase shift of the loop can be computed as

Equation (7) will converge only for values of such that . This results in frequency of oscillation (FO) as

The spacing between different phases is given by

Thus the circuit gives rise to equally spaced oscillations having a phase difference of ()°.

2.2. The OTRA Based MSO Implementation

The OTRA is a high gain, current input voltage output ABB. The circuit symbol of OTRA is shown in Figure 2 and the port characteristics in matrix form are given by (10), where is transresistance gain of OTRA. For ideal operations the of OTRA approaches infinity and forces the input currents to be equal. Thus OTRA must be used in a negative feedback configuration [25, 27]:

The MSO scheme outlined in Section 2.1 can be implemented using OTRA based first-order all pass sections. The OTRA based APN proposed in [27] and shown in Figure 3 is used for MSO implementation.

Figure 2: OTRA circuit symbol.

Figure 3: The OTRA based APN [27].

The transfer function of the APN can be written as

where

and the phase relation is expressed as

The OTRA based odd and even phased MSO structures are shown in Figures 4(a) and 4(b), respectively. The loop gain can be written as

CO and FO can be expressed as

(a)

(b)

Figure 4: The OTRA based MSO circuits: (a) odd phased, (b) even phased.

3. Nonideality Analysis

Ideally the transresistance gain is assumed to approach infinity. However, practically is a frequency dependent finite value. Considering a single pole model for the transresistance gain, can be expressed as

For high frequency applications the transresistance gain reduces to

is known as parasitic capacitance of OTRA. Taking the effect of into account (11) modifies to

Thus the of OTRA results in introduction of another pole having pole frequency . However with the value of being small (typically 5 pF) the parasitic pole frequency would be far off from the operating frequency of the APN and would not affect the MSO operation.

4. Simulation Results

The proposed circuits are simulated using PSPICE to validate the theoretical predictions. The CMOS realization of OTRA presented in [28] and reproduced in Figure 5 is used for simulation. The output of the MSO of Figure 4(a) for , with component values  KΩ,  KΩ, and  nF, is depicted in Figure 6. The steady state output is shown in Figure 6(a) while the frequency spectrum is depicted in Figure 6(b). The simulated frequency of oscillations is observed to be 1 MHz against the calculated value of 1.1 MHz.

Figure 5: The CMOS implementation of OTRA [28].

(a)

(b)

Figure 6: Odd phased MSO output for : (a) steady state output; (b) frequency spectrum.

Simulation results for , with component values  KΩ,  KΩ, and  nF, are depicted in Figure 7. The simulated frequency is found to be 61.69 KHz while the theoretical calculation yields an FO of 63.69 KHz.

(a)

(b)

Figure 7: Even phased MSO output for : (a) steady state output; (b) frequency spectrum.

It may be observed from (8) that the FO can be varied either through or by changing . Variation of FO with respect to while keeping  nF has been depicted in Figure 8(a) whereas tuning with is shown in Figure 8(b) with  KΩ. It shows that the simulated values closely follow the theoretically calculated values.

(a)

(b)

Figure 8: Frequency tuning of MSO (a) with and (b) with .

5. Conclusion

In this work OTRA based MSO circuits, designed using first-order all pass networks, are presented. The proposed structures produce “” phase oscillations of equal amplitudes which are equally spaced in phase. These circuits provide voltage output at low impedance and thus can readily be used to drive voltage input circuits without increasing component count. The proposed circuits are very accurate in providing the desired phase shift. The workability of the circuit has been demonstrated through PSPICE simulations.

Conflict of Interests

The authors declare that there is no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

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