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SOLUTIONS
ELE 315
ELECTRONICS II

Q1

Q2

Q3

Q4

TOTAL

25

EXAM I (25%)
November 20th , 2014

Answer all four questions. Explain your assumptions. Good Luck!

Q1.

a) What is the basic function of the circuit shown below?

b) Design the circuit with the high frequency gain of Av = 10 and the corner (cut-off)
frequency of fL = 1 kHz, i.e., find the values of R, RA and RF with C = 10 nF.
Assume opamp is ideal.

SOLUTION:

Q2. The differential amplifier shown below has mismatched collector resistors. Calculate
differential mode and common mode double ended voltage gain and the commonmode rejection ratio (CMRR) of the amplifier if the output is the differential output
voltage vo .
Q1 Q2
= 100
VBE(ON ) = 0.7 V
R = 100 k
R
= 0.01
R

SOLUTION:

Q3. For the power amplifier circuit shown below,

a) For RB = 1.2 k, draw AC-DC load lines and find Q-point values ICQ and VCEQ ,
and determine the maximum efficiency.
b) Calculate a new value for RB in order to have a maximum efficiency of 50%.
c) Which value of RB is better and why?

= 50
VBE(ON ) = 0.7 V
N1
n=
=2
N2

SOLUTION:
a) Fist, let us find the ICQ
ICQ = hf e IBQ
VCC VBE(ON )
RB
15 0.7
= 50
1.2k

= 0.6 A.
= hf e

(1)

Note that RDC and Rac are given by

RDC = 0

(DC resistance of the primary winding)

(2)

0
Rac = RL
= n2 RL

= (2)2 5
= 20

(3)

So, VCEQ is given by

VCEQ = VCC ICQ RDC = 15 V.

(4)

Then, the AC-DC load lines together with the maximum undistorted swing are shown
below

Maximum undistorted swing (also shown in the figure above) is given by

vL(peak)max = vce(peak)max = min (ICQ Rac , VCEQ )

(5)

= 12 V.
The maximum efficiency is given by
2
vL(peak)
max
0
PL(peak)max
2 RL
100 =
PCC
VCC ICQ
2
12
3.6
= 2 20 100 =
100
15 0.6
9

max =

100
(6)

= 40%.
b) In order to achieve a maximum efficiency of 50%, we need to have VCEQ = ICQ Rac . As
RDC = 0, VCEQ does not change. Thus, the new ICQ must be
ICQ(new) =

VCEQ
15
=
Rac
20

(7)

= 0.75 A.
So, new value of RB is calculated as
RB(new) = hf e

VCC VBE(ON )
15 0.7
= 50
ICQ(new)
0.75m

= 953 .
c) We would prefer RB(new) , it increases the efficiency (as 50% > 40%).

(8)

Q4. For the circuit shown below

a) Determine the type of feedback,
b) Draw the small-signal analysis circuit without feedback (i.e. open-loop circuit),
c) Determine the open-loop (i.e. without feedback) gain A, feedback gain , input
resistance Ri and output resistance Ro ,
d) Determine the overall closed-loop (i.e. with feedback) gain Af , input resistance Rif
and output resistance Rof .

hf e = 200
hie1 = 8 k
hie2 = 3.2 k
hie3 = 5.2 k
1/hoe =

SOLUTION:
a) voltage-series feedback. As both input and output signals are voltages, this is a voltagegain amplifier.
b) Small-signal analysis circuit without feedback is given below.

c) Let us first define the input resistance of the final stage to be calculate the open-loop
input impedance Ri ,

vi 
Ri = 
ii RL =
= R1 ||R2 || [hie1 + (hf e + 1) (R4 ||R7 )]

(1)

= 50k||10k|| [8k + 201 (2k||8k)]

= 8.13 k.
open-loop output impedance Ro ,

vo 
Ro =
io 

RL =vo ,vs =0

hie3 ||R5
hf e + 1
5.2k||1k
= (2k + 8k) ||
201
= (R4 + R7 ) ||

(2)

= 4.17
open-loop no-load voltage gain Av

vo 
Av =
vi 
RL =

vo
ib3 ib2
ib
=

1
ib3
ib2
ib1
vi
hf e R3
hf e R5
1

R5 + [hie3 + (hf e + 1) (R4 + R7 )] R3 + hie2

hie1 + (hf e + 1) (R4 ||R7 )
200 1k
200 8k
1
= (201)(2k + 8k)

1k + [5.2k + (201) (2k + 8k)]

8k + 3.2k
8k + (201) (2k||8k)

= (hf e + 1)(R4 + R7 )

= 86.4
(3)
and feedback gain
=

vf
vo

R4
R4 + R7
2k
=
2k + 8k

(4)

= 0.2
Thus, the open-loop voltage gain with load AV becomes
vo
RL
AV =
= Av
vi
RL + Ro
10k
= 86.4
10k + 4.17

= 86.4

(5)

d) Let us calculate the closed-loop input impedance Rif ,

Rif = (1 + Av ) Ri =

8.13
= 148.62 k
1 + 0.2 86.4

(6)

closed-loop output impedance Rof ,

Rof =

4.17
Ro
=
= 0.23
1 + Av
1 + 0.2 86.4

(7)

closed-loop no-load voltage gain Avf

Avf =

86.4
Av
=
= 4.73
1 + Av
1 + 0.2 86.4

(8)

and overall closed-loop voltage gain AVf

AVf =

AV
86.4
=
= 4.73.
1 + AV
1 + 0.2 86.4

(9)