Camenzind_Analog design chips
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Camenzind: Designing Analog Chips |
Chapter 14: Power |
This is an idealized concept which does not really work in practice. It is very difficult to switch from one device to the other without either leaving a gap or having both devices conduct at the same time. The result is distortion, which becomes very noticeable at low signal levels.
The solution is a compromise: allow a small idle current so that the amplifier works in a class A mode with small signals and gradually moves to class B as the signal increases. This operation is called Class AB.
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Fig. 14-29: |
5-Watt bipolar class AB amplifier. |
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available); with a 5.8 Watt output capability (requiring peak currents of 1.2A) this is no minor consideration.
To deliver the high output current, the upper stage (Q8, Q10) uses a Darlington configuration. Q9 serves to by-pass leakage current at high temperature.
The lower output stage has the identical Darlington connection plus a PNP transistor. The entire four-transistor block behaves like a PNP transistor. (All PNP transistors in this circuit are fairly large, capable of carrying 3mA).
There are three base-emitter junctions between the base of Q6 and the base of Q11. Between these two nodes a voltage is provided which causes a few hundred microamperes of idle current to flow through the two output transistors. This is done with the current I2 and transistors Q6 and Q7. The VBE of Q6 is increased with the resistor divider R5/R6 to the point where the desired current is reached. Notice that Q6 tracks the VBEs of Q8 and Q10 and Q7 tracks that of Q11.
Preliminary Edition September 2004 |
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All rights reserved |
Camenzind: Designing Analog Chips |
Chapter 14: Power |
The feedback resistors R1/R2
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A better solution is the Bridge Output. In essence there are two amplifiers, 180 degrees out of phase. With no input signal, both output rest at 1/2 Vcc. As the signal appears, one output moves up, the other one down.
In this configuration we have in fact doubled the output swing. With the same total supply voltage, 25 Watts of output are generated (which requires four output transistors with a capability of 2.5A each). Efficiency is unchanged at 62%, which produces a power dissipation of 15.3 Watts.
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In figure 14-41 the models are changed to represent more practical components. The switch resistances, for example, result in larger and unequal voltage drops (200mV for an N- channel transistor, 300mV for
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We have been assuming that we want a faithful (albeit larger) reproduction of the input signal at the load. Strictly speaking, this is not really true. In the case of an audio amplifier, the human ear cannot hear 200kHz, so filtering out high frequencies makes little difference. If the application is a servo amplifier, the load is unlikely to respond to such rapid fluctuations.
But there is radiation. Do we want to connect a square-wave of 200kHz (and its harmonics) across a long speaker cable and let it radiate into AM receivers and other electronic equipment? The answer is a clear no, and rules and regulations limiting such radiation have been written.
There are ways to reduce radiation. First, we can keep the speaker wires short, moving the amplifier next to the speaker. Second we can vary the switching frequency in a random fashion, creating a spread spectrum. Although this does not reduce the total radiation, it at least makes it less noticeable and allows meeting radiation limits.
The third way suppresses the fundamental of the switching frequency and provides a substantial (and real) improvement. It requires a bridge output, which also greatly increases the available output power for a given speaker impedance and supply voltage.
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In figure 14-44 there are four switches. S1 and S4 are always "on" and "off" together, as are S2 and S3. Thus the load is either connected to +V on the left side and -V on the right, or vice versa. This effectively doubles the supply voltage and the amplifier can deliver 25 Watts into an 8-Ohm load. There are four large output transistors, however, each of which must carry up to 2.5
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If we apply 40 Volts total and use a 4-Ohm speaker, the output power grows to 196 Watts (and the peak current in the four output devices to 10 Amperes).
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References
Chapter 1
History of the Transistor:
Pearson, G.L. and Brattain, W.H.: "History of Semiconductor Research", Proceedings of the IRE, December 1955, pp. 1794-1806.
Shockley, W.: "The Invention of the Transistor", National Bureau of Standards Publication
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Brattain, Walter H.: "Genesis of the Transistor", The Physics Teacher, March 1968, pp. 109-114.
History of the Integrated Circuit:
Wolff, Michael F.: "The Genesis of the Integrated Circuit", IEEE Spectrum, August 1976, pp. 45-53.
Interviews with Phil Ferguson, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner and Robert Noyce, 1983.
Reid, T.R.: "The Chip", Simon and Schuster, 1984
Transistor Design:
Muller, Richard and Kamins, Theodore: "Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits", John Wiley and Sons, 1977.
Roulston, David: "Bipolar Semiconductor Devices", McGraw-Hill, 1990.
Chapter 2
Antognetti, Paolo and Massobrio, Guiseppe: "Semiconductor Device Modeling with Spice", McGraw-Hill, 1988.
Kundert, Kenneth: "The Designer's Guide to Spice and Spectre", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995.
Berkeley BSIM model information is available at www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bsim3/.
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Chapter 5
Fig. 5-7: This circuit is usually attributed to Bob Widlar, but in his paper and patent he considered only 1:1 emitter ratios. Widlar, "Some Circuit Design Techniques for Linear Integrated Circuits," IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, Dec. 1965, pp. 586-590.
Widlar, "Low-value current source for integrated circuits," US Patent 3,320,439, 1967.
Fig. 5-24: George Erdi, "Starting to Like Electronics in Your Twenties", p 172, in Williams, "Analog Circuit Design", Butterworth-Heinemann, Stoneham, MA, 1991. Erdi, US Patent 4,837,496, 1989.
Chapter 6
dB: Martin, W.H., "DeciBel - The New Name for the Transmission Unit, Bell System Technical Journal, January 1929.
Steinmetz: Wagoner, C.D., "Steinmetz Revisited", IEEE Spectrum, April 1965, pp.82-95. Kline, Ronald R., "Steinmetz", Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992.
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Hilbiber, D.F., "A New Semiconductor Voltage Standard", International Solid State Circuits Conference, 1964 (ISSCC 1993 Commemorative Supplement, pp. 34-35).
Widlar, R. J., "New Developments in IC Voltage Regulators", ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, Feb. 1970, pp.32-33, and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Feb. 1971, pp. 2-7.
Brokaw, A. P., "A Simple Three-Terminal IC Bandgap Reference", IEEE Journal of SolidState Circuits, December 1974, pp. 388-393. Brokaw, "Solid-State Regulated Voltage Supply", US Patent 3,887,863, June 3, 1975.
Widlar, R.J., "Temperature Compensated Bandgap IC Voltage References", U.S. Patent 4,249,122, Feb. 3, 1981.
Gunawan, M., Meijer, G., Fonderie, J. and Huijsing, J., "A Curvature-Corrected LowVoltage Bandgap Reference", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, June 1993, pp. 667670.
Chapter 9
Solomon, James E.: "The Monolithic Op Amp: A Tutorial Study", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, December 1974, pp. 314-332
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