feedback circuit analysis

only6512

Feb 15, 2014
18
Hello, everyone
I have problem about the ratio of the Vout/I(in)
as shown in the attachments

the method i use:
let the gate voltage of M2 be vx
Vout/I(in)=Vout/vx*(vx/I in)

I don't know how to figure out (vx/I in)
does the small signal model include R(D1)?
and the current through RD1 is?
can any one help me?

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Harald Kapp

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Nov 17, 2011
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Welcome to the forum.
I'm sure we can guide you along your work.

I assume that you are looking for the small signal solution, right? (By the way it's customary to use small letters to denote the small signal sloution, capital letters for the DC operating point).

I'd go about solving the circuit as follows:

- find the operating point (Iin=0A, note this is only the small signal current)
- replace the transistors by their small signal models (see e.g. here). The parameters are defined by above operating point. The small signal model of the transistor does, of course, not include the external resistors. The small signal model of the circuit does include them.
- solve for Vout=f(Iin) and calculate Vout/Vin.

duke37

Jan 9, 2011
5,364
A very strange circuit. Are you sure that the two RF resistors are connected to ground?

only6512

Feb 15, 2014
18
That's why i am confused
the small signal model includes RD1
but the textbook's answer to vout/ I in doesn't(shown in attachment 2)
is it wrong?

Welcome to the forum.
I'm sure we can guide you along your work.

I assume that you are looking for the small signal solution, right? (By the way it's customary to use small letters to denote the small signal sloution, capital letters for the DC operating point).

I'd go about solving the circuit as follows:

- find the operating point (Iin=0A, note this is only the small signal current)
- replace the transistors by their small signal models (see e.g. here). The parameters are defined by above operating point. The small signal model of the transistor does, of course, not include the external resistors. The small signal model of the circuit does include them.
- solve for Vout=f(Iin) and calculate Vout/Vin.

only6512

Feb 15, 2014
18
yes.actually this circuit is used to calculate the closed loop gain with finite impedance
of a feedback system
the two "RF" are respectively "sense duplicate "and "return duplicate"

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