PhD thesis table of contents

• 1 Introduction
  • 1.1 Original contribution
  • 1.2 Description of the study
    • 1.2.1 Discussion of original project description
    • 1.2.2 Brief chronological overview of study
  • 1.3 Typography notes
  • 1.4 Contents of this thesis
  • 1.5 Acknowledgements
  • References
• 2 Review of OTA-C and Wave Active-RC filters
  • 2.1 Integrated OTA-C filters
    • 2.1.1 Implementation issues
    • 2.1.2 Non-traditional filters
  • 2.2 Previous work in Wave Active-RC filters
  • 2.2.1 Previous integrated Wave Active filters
  • 2.3 Discussion and Conclusion
  • References
• 3 Wave Active analysis/synthesis
  • 3.1 Wave description of LC filters
  • 3.2 Simulation of LC filters
    • 3.2.1 Simulation of plain ladder sections
    • 3.2.2 Simulation of LC Lattice structures
  • 3.3 Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• 4 Current Mode Wave Active filter theory
  • 4.1 Basic Current Mode Wave Active filter synthesis
    • 4.1.1 Current Mode two-pair implementations
  • 4.2 General sensitivity considerations
  • 4.3 Errors in first order section based filters
    • 4.3.1 Modelling of errors in building blocks
    • 4.3.2 Biquad simulations using first order two-pairs
    • 4.3.3 High frequency problems
  • 4.4 Errors in biquad based filters
    • 4.4.1 On the Q values of biquads in bandpass filters
    • 4.4.2 Sensitivity of complete Lattice simulation compared to cascade equivalent
  • 4.5 Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• 5 Performance of filter implementations
  • 5.1 GaAs transistor level designs
    • 5.1.1 Linear tunable OTA
    • 5.1.2 Current duplicators
  • 5.2 Fabricated CMOS chip
    • 5.2.1 Basic building blocks
    • 5.2.2 System design
  • 5.3 BiCMOS transistor level designs
    • 5.3.1 Basic Building Blocks
    • 5.3.2 Linear Phase bandpass filter
  • 5.4 Discussion and conclusion
  • References
• 6 Discussion and conclusion
  • 6.1 Achieved results compared to state of the art
  • 6.2 Further Work
    • 6.2.1 Implementing allpass blocks using two-pairs
  • 6.3 Conclusion
  • References
• A A Linear Phase lowpass filter
  • A.1 Allpass filters built from first order lossy integrators
  • A.2 Linear Phase lowpass filter
  • References
• B The use of symbolic math programs
  • B.1 Brief introduction to Mathematica input
  • B.2 Finding derivatives of Q and w
  • B.3 Conclusion
  • References
• C Linear Transformation analysis/synthesis
  • C.1 Mixed Wave analysis
  • References
• D GaAs integrated filter
  • References
• E Measurement equipment and procedure