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CMOS Optical Preamplifier Design Using Graphical Circuit Analysis

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Figure 4.25 SFG for the source follower amplifier.<br />

4.5 Analyzing Transistor <strong>Circuit</strong>s 101<br />

conductance feedback path is collapsed to create a single forward path whose trans-<br />

mittance is simply the original DPI of the node with a new resistance of<br />

placed in parallel as shown in Figure 4.26.<br />

i scx<br />

Z 1<br />

v x<br />

One of the common challenges of analyzing the source follower amplifier is recog-<br />

nizing that feedback exists in the amplifier. With DPI/SFG analysis, the feedback is<br />

explicitly represented in the SFG. Moreover, we have shown that this difficulty in<br />

4. See [Sedra, 1998], Appendix E.<br />

v in<br />

– gm1<br />

g m1<br />

Z 1 v x<br />

- g m<br />

g m v x<br />

i scD1<br />

i scout<br />

0<br />

1 ⁄ rds1 gm1 + gs1 + 1 ⁄ rds1 r || ds1 rds2 - gm1– gs1 i scx<br />

v D1<br />

v out<br />

=<br />

0<br />

Z ||<br />

1 1 ⁄ gm Z || 1 1 ⁄ gm Figure 4.26 The source absorption theorem: collapsing a transconductance<br />

feedback path into a resistance.<br />

v x<br />

v x<br />

1 ⁄ gm

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