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Terminated in academic year 2022/2023

Modern Amplifier Structures

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction Czech
Code 420-4002/01
Abbreviation MZS
Course title Modern Amplifier Structures
Credits 5
Coordinating department Department of Electrical Engineering
Course coordinator doc. Dr. Ing. Josef Punčochář

Subject syllabus

Lectures:
OPA history; tubes, BJT, FET.
Basic transistor circuits; current mirror as an active load.

Voltage feedback OPA ( VFA; limitation current sources in the input stage).
Current feedback OPA (transimpedance - CFA).
VFA based on CFA.
Linear VFA applications.
Linear CFA applications.
Nonlinear OPA applications.
Principle of OTA, CCII, Northon amplifier.
Principle of stabilized voltage sources; bandgap reference.
Principle A/D and D/A convertors.
New amplifiers 1.
New amplifiers 2.


Exercises:
Basic properties of the input OPA differential stage; middle stage - frequency compensation; output follower - classical.
CFA input stage; modern follower.
Input stage of "VFA based on CFA" - module and phase responses.
Operational networks with ideal op amps (inverting, noninverting, integrator, derivator).
Examples of operational networks with nonidel OPA.
Examples of nonlinear operational networks - rectifier, logarithmic amplifier.

Definition and discussion - project.


Laboratories:
Determination of input offsets (voltage, current) influence on output voltage (small input signals); application of data sheets.
Measuring of OPA transient frequency.
Measuring of OPA slew rate.
Measuring of OPA large - signal bandwidth (output voltage amplitude is parameter).
Measuring of feedforward transmission in the 1. order operational network.
Current consumption as function of signal frequency and amplitude.
Project - discussion about solutions.


Projects:
EXAMPLE: Analysis of feedforward transmission in the 1. order operational network.

Literature

Horowitz,P.- Hill,W.: The art of electronics, Cambridge University Press

Advised literature

Mohylová,J. - Punčochář,J.: Theory of electronic circuits, VŠB - TU Ostrava, 2013