NATIONAL INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY CALICUT

DEPARTMENT OF ELECTRONICS AND COMMUNICATION ENGINEERING

EC3011-ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS II
Class Assignment-2 (Monsoon Semester 2013)

1. The frequency response of open loop gain of a dominant pole compensated op-amp is as given below.

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a(jf ) = ; where f is the frequency in Hz
(1 + jf /10)

(a) What is the gain-bandwidth product of the op-amp?

(b) What will be the bandwidth of a unity gain buffer amplifier realized with this op-amp?

(c) Find the bandwidth of a unity gain inverting amplifier realized with this op-amp.

(d) Are the bandwidths in (b) and (c) same? If or if not Why?

2. Design the MOS differential amplifier (in figure) to provide a differential transconductance of 1mA/V for an
overdrive voltage of 0.2V. Assume µn Cox = 200µA/V 2 and MOSFETS are in operating in saturation region.
(Use square law approximation for MOSFET characteristics)
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3. (a) The following circuit is called Gilbert cell. Let iC1 = 1+exp(−v 1 /VT )
and iC2 = 1+exp(v 1 /VT )
write the
expressions for iC3 , iC4 , iC5 , iC6 . Assume all the transistors to be identical. Also assume for the transistors
β to be very large and early effect to be negligible.

(b) Find the expression for Vo .

(c) Approximate the expression for Vo if v1 , v2 << VT and hence identify the circuit.Use the approximation
tanh(x) ≈ x for small x.

4. If a supply voltage V cc = 10V and BJTs with VA = 100V , β = 100 are available, design a constant current
sink of 1mA, with an output impedance of 5M Ω (approx.). Neglect the effect of finite VA and finite β in
mirror ratio calculations. Resistor values should be less than 10kΩ. Assume VBE = 0.7V