o Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 eves Evample Figure 1. Common Emitter Amplifier. Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 Review Example P42 Rg Cc Rgp = RaillRpe Figure 2. Small Signal Model of Our Common. Emitter Amplifier. Using Thevenin on the output, i.e., the controlled current source, To, and Rc, we get Vi = 8m Yn Poll Re and Z,= roll Re.siew Example ~ PA o Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 ae Now our circuit now becomes: SegatalRoWs ibe g + A For the Input: Using Miller’s theorem on the input, our input circuit becomes, where the Miller gain k=—g,,r,||R, CuI Bato Re) Roplir, Cy x ~ Be * tale Tear olRe Figure 4. Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 Review Example — P44 We can further simplify the input circuit for frequencies satisfying > rllRc , anda large Miller gain, ie., g,7',||Ro>1 , to get: a Rs Cc ps4 f @ Raallr, oy Cunt oR ' ‘HeorReview sample PS S Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 For the Output: Using Miller on the output we can apply Miller to the following circuit: oy of : . tdRe \ - : ® (BntIROWn 'n ‘por tt where v, is being applied to the terminals on the left, to get, from the voltage source on the right’s perspective: oS Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 Review Example TdIRe i 1+ ( Batol ) y, + ®D (EntdlROWs Figure 7. Strictly speaking, in figure 7 we no longer have a node at which to measure Vo. Nevertheless, we can see from figure 7 that for low 1 frequencies, ie, © < ——7—— , and for a large Miller gain, i.e., 6 Palle Lm TollRo > 1, the voltage vs is approximately vo. We can, therefore,preview Example “P47 Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 i ‘ i ircuit in approximate the output circuit as (here we have flipped ae cL figure 8 around the vertical axis as compared to figure 7): TIRc . + (Ent dlRove (D Figure 8. Note: To the output circuit the controlled source is, in fact, an independent source. Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 Review Example ~~ P 4.9 Now our amplifier has been reduced to two relatively simple generic circuits: Ry C, hot gc + ando Electrical and Computer Engineering — ELEC 301 Review Example — P49 + < + ° 1 Now our problem is to find the transfer functions for these two relatively simple circuits. Circuit 2.