Metamutator: Its realizations and its applications

Mutators became very popular after 1971, when Leon Chua realized the memristor, his postulated fourth circuit element, using them. The reason for the popularity of mutators, which are easily realizable 2-port devices, lies in the fact that they render possible the simulation/emulation of, hence experimentation with, postulated non-existing (not off the shelf available) elements like memstors . On the other hand, in the literature when simulating/emulating elements with 2-ports, many 4-port "generalized mutator-like" realizations that nobody has been able to identify are being used. These underlying 4-ports, and their ability to act as a mutator when two of the ports are properly terminated, have been thus named metamutator. In this thesis, in addition to introducing some of metamutator realizations, newly designed metamutator circuits with one or two active devices are introduced. Also, a new active device, with only twelve transistors, named Additive and Differential IC (AD-IC), is proposed with its layout and use in metamutator circuit design. In addition, many 1-port and 2-port circuit realizations using metamutators have been introduced. 1-port applications are memstor simulation/emulation, floating and/or grounded impedance scaling which comprise inductance simulation, capacitance multiplication, oscillators and Frequency Dependent Negative Resistor (FDNR) simulation. 2- port applications cover Voltage Mode Multiple Input Single Output (VM-MISO) and Current Mode Single Input Multiple Output (CM-SIMO) universal filters and implementations of transconductance and transimpedance amplifiers. Also, two different applications of AD-IC: AD-IC based analog multiplier and AD-IC based full-wave rectifier are proposed in the thesis.