Abstract: A new equivalent circuit for emulating floating memcapacitor based on active analog chips was designed. By taking square and sinusoidal voltage waveforms as excitation signals, respectively, the frequency-dependence of pinched hysteresis loops of the memcapacitor emulator was tested. In consideration of the controllable memcapacitance, memcapacitor was utilized to structure filers in order to obtain tunable cutoff frequency. Based on PSPICE software, circuit and macro models were used to construct π filter circuits, respectively. Voltage signal containing low and high frequency components were used to test the low pass filtering ability of this circuit. The behaviors of filtered output and simulation errors were analyzed. The testing results indicate that these new filters have different input-output characteristics from typical filters consisted of traditional circuit elements and can be widely used in future circuit design.

Key words: memcapacitor, PSPICE, filter circuit, cutoff frequency