Frequency Response.

Part A Bode Plots

Slides taken from:
A.R. Hambley, Electronics, Prentice Hall, 2/e, 2000
A. Sedra and K.C. Smith, Microelectronic Circuits,
Oxford University Press, 4/e, 1999

Outline
Bode

Plots
Transistors at High Frequency
Miller Effect
Amplifiers High Frequency Response
Amplifiers Low Frequency Response

Bode Plots

Goal:
We want to be able to predict how the behavior of a
circuit change as frequency change.
In other words we need to develop some systematic way
to observe how the i/o relationship (transfer function) of a
circuit is affected by frequency changes.
A straightforward solution is to plot magnitude and phase
of the circuit (transfer) function versus frequency.

An RC Low Pass Example

Figure 8.1 Low-pass RC filter.

Poles and Zeros

Poles

values of s that cause the denominator

to become zero (roots of the denominator
polynomial).
Zeros values of s that cause the numerator to
become zero.

Zero and poles of the RC low pass

example

Angle in
degrees

Angle in
rad.

30

/6

45

/4

60

/3

90

/2

sin

cos

tan

Zero and poles of the RC low pass

example

Magnitude

Figure 8.3 Bode plot for the low-pass RC filter.

Magnitude

Figure 8.3 Bode plot for the low-pass RC filter.

Phase

Figure 8.4 Bode plot for phase of the low-pass RC filter.

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Example

Figure 8.5 Circuit for Example 8.1.

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Example (continued)

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Example (continued)

Figure 8.6 and 8.7 Bode plot of the magnitude of Av.

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Example (continued)

Figure 8.8 and 8.9 Bode plot of the phase of Av.

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Bode plots sanity checks

To infer the value of a Bode plot at very low frequencies

and very high frequency all you need to do is to inspect
the circuit (and remember that caps act like open for DC,
and shorts for RF, and vice versa for the inductors ).

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Generalized transfer function for

a linear(ized) circuit

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