The paper presents a new voltage-mode multifunction filter. The proposed filter employs single modified fully differential second generation current conveyor (FDCCII), two grounded capacitors, and three resistors. The proposed circuit enjoys the employment of two grounded capacitors (attractive for absorbing shunt parasitic capacitance and ideal for IC implementation). The proposed circuit provides all five generic filter responses (low pass (LP), high pass (HP), band pass (BP), notch (NH), and all pass (AP) filter responses) simultaneously with single input. The novel proposed filter has low active and passive sensitivities. A number of time domain and frequency domain simulation results depicted through PSPICE using 0.18？μm TSMC process parameters are included to validate the theory. The proposed circuit is expected to enhance the existing knowledge on the subject. 1. Introduction Analog filters are the basic building blocks and widely used for continuous-time signal processing. Applications of analog filters employing current-mode active elements extend over a large number of areas [1–5]. In the literature, several voltage-mode (VM) universal biquadratic filters with single input and multioutputs (SIMO) have been reported [6–10]. A SIMO circuit configuration reported in [6] employs five current feedback amplifiers (CFAs), two grounded capacitors, and six resistors. It realizes all the standard filter functions, namely, low pass (LP), band pass (BP), high pass (HP), notch (NH), and all pass (AP), simultaneously, and also enjoys the features of using only grounded capacitors and orthogonal control between the resonance angular frequency and quality factor. In [7], two voltage-mode universal filter circuits are presented. Each circuit employs two FDCCII, two resistors, and two capacitors. The filter circuits reported in [8, 9] use single FDCCII, three resistors, and two grounded capacitors and realize all generic filter responses in VM. Two VM universal filters are reported in [10]. The first universal filter employs three DVCCs together with two grounded capacitors and three grounded resistors and provides five outputs with single input but it requires matching condition to realize all the generic filter responses. The second reported VM universal filter with three inputs and one output employs three DVCCs, two grounded capacitors, and three grounded resistors. Over the last decades, numerous voltage-mode biquadratic filters using current conveyors are also presented [11–18]. However, all of these reported filters cannot realize five filtering
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