Fractional-order PID (FOPID) controllers have been used extensively in many control applications to achieve robust control performance. To implement these controllers, curve fitting approximation techniques are widely employed to obtain integer-order approximation of FOPID. The most popular and widely used approximation techniques include the Oustaloup, Matsuda and Cheraff approaches. However, these methods are unable to achieve the best approximation due to the limitation in the desired frequency range. Thus, this paper proposes a simple curve fitting based integer-order approximation method for a fractional-order integrator/differentiator using frequency response. The advantage of this technique is that it is simple and can fit the entire desired frequency range. Simulation results in the frequency domain show that the proposed approach produces better parameter approximation for the desired frequency range compared with the Oustaloup, refined Oustaloup and Matsuda techniques. Furthermore, time domain and stability analyses also validate the frequency domain results. stable performance, especially for higher-order systems. Moreover, the controller can easily attain the iso-damping property (Monje et al., 2010; Shah and Agashe, 2016). It should be noted that seven different configurations can be achieved with the PI λ D μ controller (i.e., P, PI, PI λ , PD, PD μ , PID and PI λ D μ ) (Xue et al., 2007;Xue, 2017;Monje et al., 2010;Kishore et al., 2018; Shah and Agashe, 2016). However, a key issue with the practical realization or equivalent circuit implementation of such controllers in a finite-dimensional integer-order system is the approximation of the fractional-order parameters. This has generated a lot of interest among researchers recently.For effective approximation of a fractional-order integrator and differentiator in the PI λ D μ controller,