Abstract:
An area-efficient low-pass, time-invariant, second-order reconstruction filter, particularly for current-driven digital-to-analog converters, comprising: a first resistor (R 1 ) and a first capacitor (C 1 ) which are parallel connected; an operational amplifier (3); a terminal of a second resistor (R 2 ) which is connected to the inverting input of the operational amplifier; another terminal of the second resistor which is connected to a common node of the first resistor (R 1 ) and the first capacitor (C 1 ); a second capacitor (C 2 ), which is fedback between the output of the operational amplifier and the inverting input; the filter further comprising an additional pair of resistors (R 3A , R 3B ) which are arranged so as to be fedback between the output and the inverting input, a current signal (I DAC ) arriving from a digital-to-analog converter arranged upstream of the reconstruction filter being fed to a common node of the additional pair of resistors.