Electronic – Switched capacitor resistor

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I have some basic doubts about switched capacitor resistors:

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With this circuit we get an equivalent resistance equal to (Reference: Wikipedia):
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Where f is the frequency of the clock signals that open and close S1 and S2.

My doubts are:

  1. When we switch from S1 to S2 or vice versa, Cs has a certain charge and so a certain voltage, and at that instant a different voltage is applied on it. It is like short circuiting two voltage sources with different voltages. Where does the deltaQ (difference of charge) go, since there are no resistances?

  2. Resistance means dissipated power. So if we get the behaviour of a resistor, there should be dissipation of power. But in this circuit S1 and S2 are ideal, and also Cs. Which is the explanation of this?

Best Answer

You are right, if we assume that the input is driven by an ideal voltage source and that we have ideal switches then the circuit can not be analyzed using our standard definitions of circuit elements. Connecting two voltage sources with different voltages in parallel results in an invalid circuit because it violates our definition of what "parallel" means.

At the instant after the switch closes the voltage on the capacitor must be exactly what it was at the instant before the switch closed. An instantaneous change in voltage across a capacitor would require an infinite current, which once again makes the circuit invalid and impossible to analyze.

Power is most certainly consumed in such a circuit, but it is consumed in the resistances of the real-world switches and real-world voltage sources rather than in the capacitors.