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NATIONAL COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING, MARUTHAKULAM 627151

M.E- Applied Electronics
First Semester
(Regulation 2013)
AP7201 ANALYSIS AND DESIGN OF ANALOG INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
INTERNAL ASSESSMENT TEST---I
Time: 1 hours

Maximum : 50 marks
Answer all questions
PART A(5*2=10)

1. How a MOSFET can operate as a small signal resister with circuit diagram?
2. What are the important aspects of performance of an amplifier?
3. Define source degeneration in common source stage?
4. Depict the common gate stage with direct coupling and capacitive coupling at the
input
5. How to minimize the nonlinearity in MOSFET?
6. Sketch the small signal differential gain of a differential pair as a function of the input
CM level.
7. What are the purposes of cascode stage?
8. What are the differences between single ended and differential signal?
9. Define folded cascode?
10. What are the properties of negative feedback.?
11. What are the advantages of differential circuit?
12. What is Miller effect?

PART B (8+16+16=40 marks)

13. a) Derive the voltage gain of CG with active loads. Plot the output current
characteristics with respect to input differential voltage. Also derive the expression for
driver current as a function of the differential voltage
a) Write notes on single ended and differential signals
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b) Explain the concept of negative feedback.
b) Explain in detail about differential pair with MOS load.

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14. a) Briefly discuss about common source stage with diode connected load and derive
its the voltage gain
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b) Derive the voltage gain and output resistance of source follower.
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c) Discuss about quantitative analysis of differential pair
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15. a) With neat circuit, Explain in detail about
(i)
loading in voltage-voltage feedback?
(ii)
loading in current-current feedback?
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b) Discuss about common gate stage and Derive its voltage gain and output
resistance
c) Explain in detail about properties of negative feedback.?

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