A New Monolithic Variable Capacitor

  • Authors:
  • Eric Despain;John Choma, Jr.

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

A method of realizing monolithic variable linear circuit elements ispresented. The method exploits monolithic variable gain amplifiers tomodify the values of passive integrated devices. The technique describedherein realizes floating true two-terminal variable elements. A theoreticalanalysis of a variable capacitance cell is performed as a prelude to apractical design producing capacitances in the range of 4 pF to 30 pF. Theresults of theoretical analyses are compared to SPICE [1] simulations of thesubject cell, prototype circuit results are presented, and performancelimitations are discussed.