Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Design
I started the design of the common source amplifier by choosing the bias current according to the desired slew rate.
Next the excess bias of the transistors was chosen according to the gain of the amplifier.
The biasing of the circuit was chosen using the auto-biasing circuit shown in figure 1. These bias voltages were then used to bias the circuit shown in figure 2.
Figure 2: DC biased CS amplifier circuit used to measure the gain and phase
Results
The measurement of each of the requirements is outlined below.
Power
The total power consumed is 0.256 mW. IDQ was measured when determining the DC operating point.
DC Gain
The DC gain of my common source amplifier design is 41.4dB as shown in figure 3 below.
Figure 3: Gain plot showing the DC gain, bandwidth, and unity gain frequency (GB product)
Slew Rate
Next the circuit shown in figure 4 was used to find the slew rate. The slew rate was found by inputting a step function and then measuring the slope in the output at the rising edge. The step function ranged from -1v to 1v with a rise and fall time of 1ns and a period of 100s. A transient analysis as shown in figure 5 was used to measure the outputs derivative.
Figure 5: Slew rate plot from a step input (Finding the slope of the output change)
DC Transfer Function
The DC transfer function plot of Vo vs. Vin is shown in figure 8.
Cascoded CS Results
I proceeded to cascode the design and included the auto-biasing circuit shown in figure 9. The sizes choosen started as the same used in the non-cascoded version. However the slew rate of the circuit was not able to meet the requirements. I then proceeded to increase the current to 57 A since I had slack in my power requirement and used this extra power budget to increase the slew rate.
DC Gain
The DC gain of the cascaded CS shown in figure 9 is 79.6 dB as shown in figure 10.
Frequency Response
The gain plot of the frequency response is shown in figure 10 and the phase plot is shown in figure 11.
Power
The power consumed is 0.285 mW
Gain-Bandwidth Product
The Gain-bandwidth product is 45.37 MHz as shown by the unity gain frequency in figure 10.
Slew Rate
The slew rate of the cascoded amplifier is 28 v/s as shown in figure 12.
Output Swing
The output swing was between -2.05v and 2.1v as shown in figure 13. A decrease in the output swing can be expected due to the extra transistors added in order to cascode the circuit, which reduces it by at least an extra excess bias.