Analog Circuit Design Lab

(20IC207P)

ICT 4th Semester

 Experiment No. 3

To study the response of a two stage RC-coupled

amplifier and calculate gain and band width.
Laboratory Sessions would be based on following topics:
BJT, FET, MOSFET:
• Device characterization
• BJT amplifier design.
MULTISTAGE AMPLIFIER DESIGN:
• Study of different coupling mechanism
• Frequency response of multistage amplifier
• Effect of feedback
OPAMP CIRCUITS AND APPLICATIONS
• Clipping and clamping circuits
• Schmitt trigger, monostable and astable multivibrators, triangular wave
generator,
• Precision rectifiers, log and antilog amplifiers, sample and hold circuit, peak
detector,
• Active filters (1st 2nd order butterworth)
• Timer IC based circuits
ANALOG TO DIGITAL AND DIGITAL TO ANALOG CONVERTERS
• R-2R ladder type DAC, Weighted resistor type DAC,
• Counter type A/D Converter, Flash type A/D converter, Dual slope A/D
converter, Successive approximation ADC,
• Use of Sample and Hold circuit in ADC.
What we're going to learn today:

1. To Design a small signal CE amplifier

2. To plot its frequency response and obtain its

bandwidth
 Operation region summary

Operation IB or VCE BC and BE Mode

Region Char. Junctions
Cutoff IB = Very Reverse & Open
small Reverse Switch
Saturation VCE = Small Forward & Closed
Forward Switch
Active VCE = Reverse & Linear
Linear Moderate Forward Amplifier
Break- VCE = Beyond Overload
down Large Limits
Transistor Circuit Configurations
 Amplifier Operation:
The linear amplifier
 A linear amplifier provides amplification of a signal without any
distortion  output signal is an exact amplified replica of the input signal.

ac source of internal
resistance Rs coupled
to the base through C1

Load resistance
 The coupling capacitors block dc and thus RL coupled to
prevent Rs and RL from changing the dc bias the collector
voltages at the base and collector. through C2

 For the amplifier shown, notice that the voltage waveform is inverted
between the input Vband output Vce but has the same shape.
 Amplifier Operation:
AC Load Line
 Operation of the linear amplifier can be illustrated using an ac load line as
shown.

 The ac load line is different than the dc load line because a capacitor
looks open to dc but effectively acts as a short to ac  the collector resistor
RC appears to be in parallel with the load resistor RL.
CE Amplifier
RC Coupled Amplifier
A Resistance Capacitance (RC) Coupled Amplifier is basically a
multi-stage amplifier circuit extensively used in electronic
circuits. Here the individual stages of the amplifier are connected
together using a resistor–capacitor combination due to which it
bears its name as RC Coupled.

As the gain provided by a single stage amplifier is usually not

sufficient to drive the load, so to achieve extra gain multi-stage
amplifier are used.

Frequency response of an amplifier is defined as the variation of

gain with respective frequency.
RC Coupled Amplifier
 Advantages of RC Coupled Amplifier

1. Cheap, economical and compact as it uses only resistors and

capacitors
2. Offers a constant gain over a wide frequency band.

Disadvantages of RC Coupled Amplifier

1. Unsuitable for low-frequency amplification.

2. Low voltage and power gain as the effective load
resistance (and hence the gain) is reduced due to the fact that
the input of each stage presents a low resistance to its next
stage
3.Narrow bandwidth when compared to JFET amplifier.
TWO STAGE RC-COUPLED AMPLIFIER
Observation Table:
S.No Frequency(Hz) Output Input Voltage Gain in
. Voltage Voltage Gain Av= (dB)=
Vo Vin Vo/Vin 20log(Vo/
Vin)
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10.
CALCULATIONS:
1. Determine lower cut-off frequency and upper cut-off
frequency from the graph.
2. Calculate Band width.
Lab Report Format (submit in pdf format)

• Title: EXPERIMENT No. 2: To …………………..

• Apparatus/Tool required: Multisim Live
• Theory of experiment: Brief theory of experiment
• Procedure:
• Observation Table:
• Calculation:
• Result:
(a) Activity 1 (b) Activity 2 (c) Activity 3 (if any)
• Discussions