## Textbooks & Solution Manuals

Find the Source, Textbook, Solution Manual that you are looking for in 1 click.

## Tip our Team

Our Website is free to use.
To help us grow, you can support our team with a Small Tip.

## Holooly Tables

All the data tables that you may search for.

## Holooly Help Desk

Need Help? We got you covered.

## Holooly Arabia

For Arabic Users, find a teacher/tutor in your City or country in the Middle East.

Products

## Textbooks & Solution Manuals

Find the Source, Textbook, Solution Manual that you are looking for in 1 click.

## Holooly Arabia

For Arabic Users, find a teacher/tutor in your City or country in the Middle East.

## Holooly Help Desk

Need Help? We got you covered.

## Q. 4.8

Objective: Design a source-follower amplifier with a p-channel enhancement-mode MOSFET to meet a set of specifications.

Specifications: The circuit to be designed has the configuration shown in Fig-ure 4.28 with circuit parameters $V_{D D} = 20 V$ and $R_{Si} = 4 kΩ$. The Q-point values are to be in the center of the load line with $I_{D Q} = 2.5 mA$. The input resistance is to be $R_{i} = 200 kΩ$. The transistor W/L ratio is to be designed such that the small signal voltage gain is $A_{v} = 0.90$.
Choices: A transistor with nominal parameters $V_{T P} = −2 V, k´_{p} = 40 μA/V^{2}$ , and λ = 0 is available

## Verified Solution

(dc analysis): From a KVL equation around the source-to-drain loop, we have
$V_{D D} = V_{S D Q} + I_{D Q} R_{S}$
or
$20 = 10 + (2.5)R_{S}$
which yields the required source resistor to be $R_{S} = 4 k\Omega$.
(ac design): The small-signal voltage gain of this circuit is the same as that of a source follower with an NMOS device. From Equation (4.33(a)), we have
$A_{v} = \frac{V_{o}}{V_{i}} = \frac{g_{m} R_{S}}{1 + g_{m} R_{S}} \cdot \frac{R_{i}}{R_{i} + R_{Si}}$

which yields
$0.90 = \frac{g_{m} (4)}{1 + g_{m} (4)} \cdot \frac{200}{200 + 4}$
We find that the required transconductance must be $g_{m} = 2.80 mA/V$. The transcon-ductance can be written as
$g_{m} = 2 \sqrt{K_{p} I_{D Q}}$
We have
$2.80 × 10^{−3} = 2 \sqrt{K_{p}(2.5 × 10^{−3})}$
which yields
$K_{p} = 0.784 × 10^{−3} A/V^{2}$
The conduction parameter, as a function of width-to-length ratio, is
$K_{p} = 0.784 × 10^{−3} = \frac{k´_{p}}{2} \cdot \frac{W}{L} = \left( \frac{40 × 10{−6}}{2} \right) \cdot \left( \frac{W}{L} \right)$
which means that the required width-to-length ratio must be
$\frac{W}{L} = 39.2$
(dc design): Completing the dc analysis and design, we have
$I_{D Q} = K_{p}(V_{G S Q} + V_{T P})^{2}$
or
$2.5 = 0.784(V_{SG Q} − 2)^{2}$
which yields a quiescent source-to-gate voltage of $V_{SG Q} = 3.79 V$. The quiescent source-to-gate voltage can also be written as
$V_{SG Q} = (V_{D D} − I_{D Q} R_{S}) − \left( \frac{R_{2}}{R_{1} + R_{2}} \right) (V_{D D})$

Since
$\left( \frac{R_{2}}{R_{1} + R_{2}} \right) = \left( \frac{1}{R_{1}} \right) \left( \frac{R_{1} R_{2}}{R_{1} + R_{2}} \right) = \left( \frac{1}{R_{1}} \right) \cdot R_{i}$
we have
$3.79 = [20 − (2.5)(4)] − \left( \frac{1}{R_{1}} \right) (200)(20)$
The bias resistor $R_{1}$ is then found to be
$R_{1} = 644 k \Omega$
Since $R_{i} = R_{1}||R_{2} = 200 k\Omega$, we find
$R_{2} = 290 k\Omega$
Comment: In order to achieve the desired specifications, a relatively large transcon-ductance is required, which means that a relatively large transistor is needed. A large value of input resistance $R_{i}$ has minimized the effect of loading due to the output resistance, $R_{Si}$, of the signal source