4. Advantages of integrated circuits
1. Miniaturization and hence increased equipment
density.
2. Cost reduction due to batch processing.
3. Increased system reliability due to the elimination of
soldered joints.
4. Improved functional performance.
5. Matched devices.
6. Increased operating speeds.
7. Reduction in power consumption
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7. Silicon wafer (substrate) preparation
• A wafer, also called a slice or substrate,
is a thin slice of semiconductor material,
such as a crystalline silicon, used in
electronics for the fabrication of
integrated circuits and in photovoltaics
for conventional, wafer-based solar cells.
• The wafer serves as the substrate for
microelectronic devices built in and
over the wafer and undergoes many micro
fabrication process steps such as doping or
ion implantation, etching, deposition of
various materials, and photolithographic
patterning. Typical wafer
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8. Photolithography
The process of photolithography makes it possible to produce microscopically small
circuit and device pattern on si wafer.
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9. OP-AMP
• An operational amplifier (often op-amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled
high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and,
usually, a single-ended output.
• In this configuration, an op-amp produces an output potential (relative
to circuit ground) that is typically hundreds of thousands of times larger
than the potential difference between its input terminals.
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Current sources as Active loads
The current source can be used as an active load in both analog and digital IC‘s.
The active load realized using current source in place of the passive load (i.e. a
resistor) in the collector arm of differential amplifier makes it possible to achieve high
voltage gain without requiring large power supply voltage.
26. Differential Amplifier
• A differential amplifier is a type of electronic amplifier that amplifies the
difference between two input voltages but suppresses any voltage common
to the two inputs.
• It is an analog circuit with two inputs and and one output in which the
output is ideally proportional to the difference between the two voltages.
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To improve diferential mode
gain
Current mirror has high a.c.
resistance
Current mirror circuit acting as
load provides high a.c resistance
50. OP-AMP
• An operational amplifier (often op-amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled
high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and,
usually, a single-ended output.
• In this configuration, an op-amp produces an output potential (relative
to circuit ground) that is typically hundreds of thousands of times larger
than the potential difference between its input terminals.
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INPUT STAGE OPERATIONAL-AMPLIFIER
Q1 to Q4 – Part of Differential amplifier inputs
Q5, Q6,Q8,Q9 – Current Source
Q7 – Supplies Base current
60. DC Characteristics of Op-Amp
• Input bias current
• Input offset -current
• Input offset voltage
• Thermal drift
Note:
The op-amp input is made up of differential amplifiers, which can be
made of BJT or FET.
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66. Input offset voltage
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In spite of the use of the above compensating techniques, it is found
that the output voltage may still not be zero with zero input voltage
[Vo ≠ 0 with Vi= 0].
This is due to unavoidable imbalances inside the op-amp and one may
have to apply a small voltage at the input terminal to make output
(Vo) = 0.
68. Thermal drift
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Bias current, offset current, and offset voltage change with
temperature.
A circuit carefully nulled at 25ºC may not remain. So when the
temperature rises to 35ºC. This is called drift.
Offset current drift is expressed in nA/ºC.
These indicate the change in offset for each degree Celsius change in
temperature.
69. AC Characteristics of Op-Amp
• Frequency Response
• Slew Rate
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Frequency Response
The variation in operating frequency will cause variations in gain
magnitude and its phase angle.
The manner in which the gain of the op-amp responds to different
frequencies is called the frequency response
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The op-amp gain decreases (roll-off) at higher frequency what reasons to decrease
gain after a certain frequency reached.
There must be a capacitive component in the equivalent circuit of the op-amp.
For an op-amp with only one break (corner) frequency all the capacitors effects can
be represented by a single capacitor C.
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From the phase characteristics that the phase angle is zero at frequency f = 0. At the
corner frequency f1 the phase angle is -45 (lagging and an infinite frequency the phase
angle is -90 .
It shows that a maximum of 90 phase change can occur in an op-amp with a single
capacitor C.
Zero frequency is taken as the decade below the corner frequency and infinite
frequency is one decade above the corner frequency.
74. Frequency Compensation
• The Network System formed to compensate the unstable system is
called compensating network
• Modifies the rate of change of gain and phase of op-amp
• Methods
• External Compensation
• Internal Compensation
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79. Voltage Sources
• A voltage source is a circuit that produces an output voltage V0,
which is independent of the load driven by the voltage source, or the
output current supplied to the load.
• The voltage source is the circuit dual of the constant current source
• Methods
1.Using the impedance transforming properties of the transistor, which
in turn determines the current gain of the transistor
2. Using an amplifier with negative feedback.
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81. Voltage References
• The circuit that is primarily designed for providing a constant voltage
independent of changes in temperature is called a voltage reference
Properties of a Voltage Reference
• Reference voltage must be independent of any temperature change.
• Reference voltage must have good power supply rejection which is as
independent of the supply voltage as possible
• the circuit should have low output impedance
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