OTA as an integrator

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Hi
I just want to get some idea how to use an OTA as an integrator (for dual slope ADC). Can some one help me out or give me some links?
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Salil
 

OTA is indeed a integrator when connected to a cap; gmvd current pumped into cap...
 

LInearity of OTAs without feedback is generally low, mostly due to the nonlinear transconductance curve. I can't imagine that it will give more than 1% (7-Bit) accuracy for a dual slope ADC. In other words, a bad idea.
 

As in case of a classical operational amplifier you also can use a capacitor in the negative feedback path of an OTA. In addition, you need buffering the output. When the input voltage is applied to the inverting OTA input through a resistor R the voltage transfer function is:H(s)=1/(1+gm*R) - 1/s[(C/gm +RC)]. Gm is the transconductance of the OTA. The second term is equivalent to an inverting integrator. For low frequencies the first term can be neglected in case the product gm*R is small enough.
 
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