Manual of Lab Experiments - Front Page and Expt - 1 V - 3.0
Manual of Lab Experiments - Front Page and Expt - 1 V - 3.0
List of Experiments:
Experiment II: Design of a common emitter amplifier with stable operating point
Experiment III: D.C. characterization of MOSFET and Design of common source
amplifier
Experiment III: Characterization of Current Mirror circuits
Experiment IV: Design of Common collector amplifier
Experiment V: Design of differential amplifier
Experiment VI: Design of an oscillator (phase shift/Colpitts/Hartley/Wien bridge)
Experiment VII: Design of a second order active filter (low pass/high pass)
Note: Single report per group, except the last point (i.e., Observations and Discussions)
Experiment I: D.C. characterization of BJT and design of simple amplifier
Objective:
(i) To measure I-V characteristic of a Bipolar transistor
(ii) To extract values of device model parameters from the measured I-V characteristic
(iii) Use the model parameters to design a simple common emitter amplifier.
(iv) Measure performance of the amplifier
Calculations Steps:
(iii) From Ic vs. Vce characteristic, find the values of Early voltage (VA) and small signal
collector-emitter resistance ro for each of the values of Ib.
(iv) From trans-characteristic (i.e., Ic vs. Vbe), find the value of trans-conductance, gm (from
Input-Output characteristic)
(v) From the input characteristic (i.e., Ib vs. Vbe ), find the value of small signal input
resistance, rπ and the value of IS(B) (assuming non-ideal factor, n ≈ 1).
(vi) Combining the trans-characteristic and the input characteristic obtain the trans-
characteristic Ic vs. Ib using which find the value of large signal current gain, βF and small
signal current gain βo.
Notes:
(i) The given circuit diagrams are only for n-p-n transistors. You may construct appropriate
circuit for p-n-p transistor characterization.
(ii) Caution: the base bias resistor Rb should be high to avoid burnout of the BJT !
Vcc Vcc
Rb1 R2
Ic R2 Ic R1
Rb
R1
Rb2
Vce Vce
Ib Rb3
Vbe
Gnd Gnd
Experiment Steps:
(i) A simple common emitter (fixed bias) circuit shown in Fig. 1.b. Find suitable values of
the bias resistors Rb and Rc such that IC is in the range of 1-2mA and VCE is around 6V
(with Vcc = 12V).
Vcc
Rc
Output
Rb
Ic
Input
Vce
Gnd
Fig. 1.b