A four-terminal active device that can be used to perform analogue signal processing functions by means of steering or controlling current flows. The device can be thought of as a dual of the operational voltage amplifier or op-amp used in voltage-mode circuits. The current conveyor is shown in the diagram. The first-generation current conveyor, CCI, operates in the following manner: a current input to terminal X causes an identical current to flow into the other ‘input’ terminal Y; these are low-impedance inputs. The input current is also ‘conveyed’ to the output terminal Z; this is a high-impedance current source output. The second-generation current conveyor, CCII, subsequently developed, is similar except that no current flows into terminal Y. This has proved to be a more versatile device.
Current conveyor
- muting
- muting switch
- Mutiny Act (1689)
- mutual branch
- mutual capacitance
- mutual exclusion
- mutual fund
- mutual inductance
- mutual-inductance coupling
- mutual information
- mutualism
- mutual knowledge
- mutually disjoint
- mutually exclusive
- mutually exclusive events
- mutually exclusive/jointly exhaustive
- mutually independent events
- mutually prime
- muxing
- Muybridge, Eadweard James
- Mu’takallimun
- Mu’tazilites
- MVD
- MWA
- Mwene Mutapa