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Lecture 42: Review of active MOSFET circuits

This lecture provides a review of active MOSFET circuits, covering the course from the beginning. The lecture notes include observed behavior, finding ID as a function of VGS and VDS, small signal analysis, and more.

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Lecture 42: Review of active MOSFET circuits

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  1. Lecture 42: Review of active MOSFET circuits Prof. J. S. Smith

  2. Final Exam • Covers the course from the beginning • Date/Time: SATURDAY, MAY 15, 2004 8-11A • Location: BECHTEL auditorium • One page (Two sides) of notes University of California, Berkeley

  3. Observed Behavior: ID-VDS • For low values of drain voltage, the device is like a resistor • As the voltage is increases, the resistance behaves non-linearly and the rate of increase of current slows • Eventually the current stops growing and remains essentially constant (current source) non-linear resistor region “constant” current resistor region University of California, Berkeley

  4. Observed Behavior: ID-VDS non-linear resistor region “constant” current resistor region As the drain voltage increases, the E field across the oxide at the drain end is reduced, and so the charge is less, and the current no longer increases proportionally. As the gate-source voltage is increased, this happens at higher and higher drain voltages. The start of the saturation region is shaped like a parabola University of California, Berkeley

  5. Finding ID = f (VGS, VDS) • Approximate inversion charge QN(y): drain is higher than the source  less charge at drain end of channel University of California, Berkeley

  6. Inversion Charge at Source/Drain The charge under the gate along the gate, but we are going to make a simple approximation, that the average charge is the average of the charge near the source and drain University of California, Berkeley

  7. Average Inversion Charge Drain End Source End • Charge at drain end is lower since field is lower • Notice that this only works if the gate is inverted along its entire length • If there is an inversion along the entire gate, it works well because Q is proportional to V everywhere the gate is inverted University of California, Berkeley

  8. Drift Velocity and Drain Current “Long-channel” assumption: use mobility to find v And now the current is just charge per area, times velocity, times the width: Inverted Parabolas University of California, Berkeley

  9. Square-Law Characteristics Boundary: what is ID,SAT? TRIODE REGION SATURATION REGION University of California, Berkeley

  10. The Saturation Region When VDS > VGS – VTn, there isn’t any inversion charge at the drain … according to our simplistic model Why do curves flatten out? University of California, Berkeley

  11. Square-Law Current in Saturation Current stays at maximum (where VDS = VGS – VTn ) Measurement: ID increases slightly with increasing VDS model with linear “fudge factor” University of California, Berkeley

  12. A Simple Circuit: An MOS Amplifier Input signal Supply “Rail” Output signal University of California, Berkeley

  13. Small Signal Analysis • Step 1: Find DC operating point. Calculate (estimate) the DC voltages and currents (ignore small signals sources) • Substitute the small-signal model of the MOSFET/BJT/Diode and the small-signal models of the other circuit elements. • Solve for desired parameters (gain, input impedance, …) University of California, Berkeley

  14. Supply “Rail” A Simple Circuit: An MOS Amplifier Input signal Output signal University of California, Berkeley

  15. VGS,BIAS was found in Lecture 15 Small-Signal Analysis Step 1. Find DC Bias – ignore small-signal source IGS,Q University of California, Berkeley

  16. Small-Signal Modeling What are the small-signal models of the DC supplies? Shorts! University of California, Berkeley

  17. Small-Signal Models of Ideal Supplies Small-signal model: short open University of California, Berkeley

  18. Small-Signal Circuit for Amplifier University of California, Berkeley

  19. Low-Frequency Voltage Gain Consider first   0 case … capacitors are open-circuits Design Variable Transconductance Design Variables University of California, Berkeley

  20. Voltage Gain (Cont.) Substitute transconductance: Output resistance: typical value n= 0.05 V-1 Voltage gain: University of California, Berkeley

  21. Input and Output Waveforms Output small-signal voltage amplitude: 14 x 25 mV = 350 Input small-signal voltage amplitude: 25 mV University of California, Berkeley

  22. What Limits the Output Amplitude? 1. vOUT(t) reaches VSUP or 0… or 2. MOSFET leaves constant-current region and enters triode region University of California, Berkeley

  23. Maximum Output Amplitude vout(t)= -2.18 V cos(t)  vs(t) = 152 mV cos(t) How accurate is the small-signal (linear) model? Significant error in neglecting third term in expansion of iD= iD(vGS) University of California, Berkeley

  24. One-Port Models (EECS 40) • A terminal pair across which a voltage and associated current are defined Circuit Block University of California, Berkeley

  25. Small-Signal Two-Port Models • We assume that input port is linear and that the amplifier is unilateral: • Output depends on input but input is independent of output. • Output port : depends linearly on the current and voltage at the input and output ports • Unilateral assumption is good as long as “overlap” capacitance is small (MOS) University of California, Berkeley

  26. Two-Port Small-Signal Amplifiers Voltage Amplifier Current Amplifier University of California, Berkeley

  27. Two-Port Small-Signal Amplifiers Transconductance Amplifier Transresistance Amplifier University of California, Berkeley

  28. Common-Source Amplifier (again) How to isolate DC level? University of California, Berkeley

  29. DC Bias 5 V Neglect all AC signals 2.5 V Choose IBIAS, W/L University of California, Berkeley

  30. Load-Line Analysis to find Q Q University of California, Berkeley

  31. Small-Signal Analysis University of California, Berkeley

  32. Two-Port Parameters: Generic Transconductance Amp Find Rin, Rout, Gm University of California, Berkeley

  33. Two-Port CS Model Reattach source and load one-ports: University of California, Berkeley

  34. Maximize Gain of CS Amp • Increase the gm (more current) • Increase RD (free? Don’t need to dissipate extra power) • Limit: Must keep the device in saturation • For a fixed current, the load resistor can only be chosen so large • To have good swing we’d also like to avoid getting too close to saturation University of California, Berkeley

  35. Current Source Supply • Solution: Use a current source! • Current independent of voltage for ideal source University of California, Berkeley

  36. CS Amp with Current Source Supply University of California, Berkeley

  37. Load Line for DC Biasing Both the I-source and the transistor are idealized for DC bias analysis University of California, Berkeley

  38. Two-Port Parameters From current source supply University of California, Berkeley

  39. P-Channel CS Amplifier DC bias: VSG = VDD – VBIAS sets drain current –IDp = ISUP University of California, Berkeley

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  41. Common Gate Amplifier Notice that IOUT must equal -Is DC bias: Gain of transistor tends to hold this node at ss ground: low input impedance load for current input current gain=1 Impedance buffer University of California, Berkeley

  42. CG as a Current Amplifier: Find Ai University of California, Berkeley

  43. CG Input Resistance At input: Output voltage: University of California, Berkeley

  44. Approximations… • We have this messy result • But we don’t need that much precision. Let’s start approximating: University of California, Berkeley

  45. CG Output Resistance University of California, Berkeley

  46. CG Output Resistance Substituting vs= itRS The output resistance is (vt / it)|| roc University of California, Berkeley

  47. Approximating the CG Rout The exact result is complicated, so let’s try to make it simpler: Assuming the source resistance is less than ro, University of California, Berkeley

  48. CG Two-Port Model Function: a current buffer • Low Input Impedance • High Output Impedance University of California, Berkeley

  49. Common-Drain Amplifier In the common drain amp, the output is taken from a terminal of which the current is a sensitive function Weak IDS dependence University of California, Berkeley

  50. CD Voltage Gain Note vgs = vt – vout University of California, Berkeley

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