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Power Amplifiers: Ranjith Office Level 4 - Building 193 - EEE Building

This document provides a summary of key concepts from a lecture on electronic circuit design, including: 1) It discusses the behavior of an emitter follower circuit and how its output voltage decreases as the input voltage decreases, clipping the output waveform. 2) It covers the operation of a push-pull amplifier stage in class B mode and how varying the bias voltages affects the current flow. 3) It explains how to implement active level shifting to combine level shifting with amplification in a push-pull stage. 4) It provides a high-level overview of the main components in a typical operational amplifier, including the differential amplifier, current mirrors, gain stage, and output stage.

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Power Amplifiers: Ranjith Office Level 4 - Building 193 - EEE Building

This document provides a summary of key concepts from a lecture on electronic circuit design, including: 1) It discusses the behavior of an emitter follower circuit and how its output voltage decreases as the input voltage decreases, clipping the output waveform. 2) It covers the operation of a push-pull amplifier stage in class B mode and how varying the bias voltages affects the current flow. 3) It explains how to implement active level shifting to combine level shifting with amplification in a push-pull stage. 4) It provides a high-level overview of the main components in a typical operational amplifier, including the differential amplifier, current mirrors, gain stage, and output stage.

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Electronic Circuit Design ELEN90056

Power Amplifiers
Not included for final examination

Ranjith R Unnithan
([email protected])
Office Level 4 – Building 193 – EEE Building

Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering,


The University of Melbourne
Summary from last lecture: Emitter Follower Large-
Signal Behavior
Signal. VBE 0.767~ 0.8 V.

I1= Ic+ Vout/RL

 However as Vin decreases, Vout also decreases, shutting off Q1 and resulting in a
constant Vout.

 As Vin decreases the output waveform will be clipped, introducing nonlinearity


2
in
I/O characteristics.
Summary from last lecture: Push-Pull Stage: Class B

- 0.8 V
+ 0.8 V

- 0.8 V
+ 0.8 V

- 0.8 V
+ 0.8 V

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Summary from last lecture: Implementation of VB

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Summary from last lecture: Class A, Class B and
Class AB

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Summary from last lecture: Improved Push-Pull
Stage: Current Flow

If Vin is positive, Ib1 increases: Q1 ON and Q2 OFF

Iin

Iin  I1  I B1  I B 2

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Example: Current Flow and Lab 6&7

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Improved Push-Pull Stage and Lab 6 & 7

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DC coupled multistage

In DC - coupled multistage cascade the output bias level of each stage increases to
maintain the collector more positive than the base (constant current operation)

If this voltage “stacking” is severe, little swing room is left in the final stages of
the cascade

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Active level shifting with amplification and Lab 6&7

By using complementary devices, active level shifting can be


combined with amplification

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Practical Power Amplifier

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Next Operational Amplifier
How to connect differential output to next stage

OFFSET
NULL
1 8 N.C.

-IN 2 7 V+

+IN 3 + 6 OUTPUT

OFFSET
V 4 5 NULL

We need only one output


instead of differential
output with same
properties as differential
output
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How to connect differential output to next stage

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RECAP: Differential Pair with Active Load

I1=I2 + I3
I3=I1 – I2
I1 I3

I2

One output gives same result as


differential output
 The input differential pair decreases the current drawn from RL by
I and the active load pushes an extra I into RL by current mirror
action; these effects enhance each other. 14
Simple operational amplifier 1

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Simple operational amplifier 2
Simple operational amplifier 3

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Simple operational amplifier 4

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A component-level diagram of 741 op-amp

Current mirrors voltage level shifter

output stage

Differential amplifier Current mirror Gain stage (class A amplifier)

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