Introduction.- Op-amp oscillators and waveform generators.- Electronically-Controllable OTA-C oscillators and waveform generators.- Oscillator and waveform generators using Current conveyors.- Oscillators and waveform generators using Current feedback op-amps.- Sinusoidal and relaxation Oscillators using modern electronic circuit building blocks.- Switched-Capacitor and MOSFET-C oscillators.- Generation of Equivalent Oscillators using adjoints, network transposition and nullor-based transformations.- Electronically-controllable oscillators.- Bipolar Translinear and log domain oscillators.- CMOS Translinear and Square root domain oscillators.- Quadrature and Multiphase Oscillators.- Chaotic Oscillators.- Amplitude stabilization and control techniques.- Systematic Synthesis of oscillators using pathological elements.- Concluding remarks, future directions of research and open problems.
Raj Senani received B.Sc. from Lucknow University, B.Sc. Engg. from HBTI, Kanpur, M.E. (Honors) from MNNIT, Allahabad and Ph.D. in Electrical Engg. from University of Allahabad, India. Dr. Senani became a Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at Delhi Institute of Technology, now known as Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology (NSIT), New Delhi, in 1990 and has held the positions of Head and Dean of various Departments, as well as Institute Director, a number of times since then. His last assignment as Director, NSIT, was from October 2008 to December 30, 2014. His areas of research interest are Bipolar and CMOS Analog Integrated Circuits and Analog Signal Processing and he has authored/co-authored over 140 research papers in International Journals, 04 book chapters and 02 monographs, namely, `Current feedback Operational Amplifiers and their Applications' (Springer 2013) and `Current Conveyors: Variants, Applications and Hardware implementations' (Springer 2014). He is serving as the Editor-in-Chief of IETE Journal of Education and an Associate Editor for Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, since 2003. Professor Senani is a Senior Member of IEEE, Fellow of IE (India), Life Fellow of IETE (India) and was elected a Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, India (NASI), in 2008. He is the recipient of Second Laureate of the 25th Khwarizmi International Award for the year 2012.
D. R. Bhaskar received B.Sc. from Agra University, B. Tech. from IIT, Kanpur, M.Tech. from IIT, Delhi and Ph.D. from University of Delhi. Dr. Bhaskar has been a full Professor of ECE at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi, since 2002 and has served as the Head of the Department of ECE during 2002-2005. Professor Bhaskar is a Senior Member of IEEE, A Fellow of IE (India) and a Life Fellow of IETE (India). His areas of research interest are Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing and he has authored/co-authored over
75 research papers in International Journals, 03 book chapters and 02 monographs, namely, `Current feedback Operational Amplifiers and their Applications' (Springer 2013) and `Current Conveyors: Variants, Applications and Hardware implementations' (Springer 2014).
V. K Singh obtained B.E. and M. E. degrees in Electrical Engineering from M. N. R. Engineering College, Allahabad and Ph.D. in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Uttar Pradesh Technical University, India. He has been a full Professor of Electronics and Communication Engineering at IET, Lucknow since 2004 and has functioned as Head of the Electronics Engineering Department during 1986-1988, 2007-2010 and 2013-onwards. He has been Dean of Research and Development since 2007. He is a member of IEEE and a Fellow of IETE (India). His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing. He has authored/co-authored 16 research papers in various international Journals, 02 book Chapters and a monograph namely, `Current feedback Operational Amplifiers and their Applications' (Springer 2013).
R. K. Sharma received A.M.I.E. (India) in Electronics and Communication Engineering in 1989 from The Institution of Engineers (India) Kolkata, M.E. in Control and Instrumentation in 1994 from MNNIT, Allahabad and Ph.D. from University of Delhi in 2007. Dr. Sharma has been Associate Professor in the Department of ECE at Ambedkar Institute of Advanced Communication Technologies and Research, Delhi, since 2010. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of Circuits and Systems, Analog and Digital Integrated Electronics, Network Synthesis and Filter design, Current-mode Signal processing and Field programmable Analog arrays. He has authored/co-authored 12 research papers in international journals and one book chapter for a monograph published by Springer.
