Eletronics Lab Report - Current Mirror
Eletronics Lab Report - Current Mirror
Procedures
Procedure 1: Analyzing Current Mirror
Circuit
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Figure 5: Voltage Gain (Closer View)
In small signal analysis, we can ignore the bias
point. In the circuit, since Body was not From the screen image, we found that the overall
connected to Source, the body effect on small voltage gain ≈ 10V/V. Therefore, our
signal would be taken into account. measurement was close enough to our calculation.
The difference might be due to the fact that the
gm = 2I/(VGS – VTN) = 0.00187 resistance of oscilloscope is not infinite although
it is very large enough to assume that it is infinite.
gmb = χgm = 0.00037
In order to measure output resistance, we removed
ro = VA/I = 6.67KΩ. the current source and grounded VG and VI, and
provided VO = 1V. We measured IO, which was
Therefore, input resistance (assume RL = ∞) 0.2mA. Therefore, we calculated Rout = VO/IO =
25KΩ, which was close enough to our
Rin = (ro + RL ) / (1 + (gm + gmb)ro) = ∞ calculations in the prelab.
GV= GVO = (1 + (gm + gmb)ro) =16.13 V/V Another thing to note is that the output signal is
not inverted. Therefore, CG amplification is non-
Rout = ro + [(1 + (gm + gmb)ro)]Rs = 22.8KΩ inverting. Although CG provides high voltage
gain, the current gain is almost unity.
Gis = Gvo (Rs/Rout) = 0.707
When we gave input signal = 1Vpp Sine Wave,
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Discussion
We found that in common gate circuit, the input
resistance is greater than output resistance, and the
voltage gain is very high, almost 10 times. However,
the current gain is unity. That's why common gate
circuit are popular for current follower circuit and
cascode circuits. Unlike, common source, common
gate is non-inverting.
References
[1] Sedra, Adel S., and Smith. Kenneth C. “Microelectronics
Circuits”. 5th. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004.
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