Lecture 13.ppt

EE105 Fall 2007 Lecture 13, Slide * Prof. Liu, UC Berkeley Lecture 13 OUTLINE Cascode Stage: final comments Frequency Response General considerations High-frequency BJT model Miller’s Theorem Frequency response of CE stage Reading: Chapter 11.1-11.3 ANNOUNCEMENTS Midterm #1 (Thursday 10/11, 3:30PM-5:00PM) location: 106 Stanley Hall: Students with last names starting with A-L 306 Soda Hall: Students with last names starting with M-Z EECS Dept. policy re: academic dishonesty will be strictly followed! HW#7 is posted online. Cascoding Cascode? Recall that the output impedance seen looking into the collector of a BJT can be boosted by as much as a factor of b, by using a BJT for emitter degeneration. If an extra BJT is used in the cascode configuration, the maximum output impedance remains bro1. Cascode Amplifier Recall that voltage gain of a cascode amplifier is high, because Rout is high. If the input is applied to the base of Q2 rather than the base of Q1, however, the voltage gain is not as high. The resulting circuit is a CE amplifier with emitter degeneration, which has lower Gm. Review: Sinusoidal Analysis Any voltage or current in a linear circuit with a sinusoidal source is a sinusoid of the same frequency (w). We only need to keep track of the amplitude and phase, when determining the response of a linear circuit to a sinusoidal source. Any time-varying signal can be expressed as a sum of sinusoids of various frequencies (and phases). ? Applying the principle of superposition: The current or voltage response in a linear circuit due to a time-varying input signal can be calculated as the sum of the sinusoidal responses for each sinusoidal component of the input signal. High Frequency “Roll-Off” in Av Typically, an amplifier is designed to work over a limited range of frequencies. At “high” frequencies, the gain of an amplifier decreases. Av Roll-Off due to CL A capacitive load (CL) causes the gain to decrease at high frequencies. The impedance of CL de