《Electronic Circuit Design1模拟电子技术》Transistors - MOSFET Part 2.pdfVIP

75 EE-1029 3.3.4 MOSFET Amplifier Transfer Characteristic In order to get a better understanding of the relationship between the amplifier’s output voltage and its input voltage it is useful to generate a plot of vout against vin. This is referred to as the transfer characteristic of the amplifier (as distinct from the transfer characteristic of the transistor which we studied in section 3.3.2.1). A typical transfer characteristic for a simple MOSFET amplifier is shown in figure 3.10 below. T 10.00 7.50 ) V ( e g a t l o 5.00 V t u p t u O 2.50 0.00 0.00 1.00 2.00 3.00 4.00 5.00 Input voltage (V) Figure 3.10 MOSFET Amplifier Transfer Characteristic It can be seen that the curve of vout vs vin has a very steep gradient over the range of input voltages from just above 1.0V to almost 2.0V. This corresponds to the region in which the transistor is in its active or saturation region and is therefore the region in which the circuit needs to be operated if we want it to function as an amplifier. Since the gain of the amplifier is expressed as AV = vout/vin we can find it from the graph by simply measuring the slope of the curve, noting that the gain is highest where the gradient of the curve is at its steepest. It is also worth noting here that the slope of the transfer characteristic is negative whi