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ELEC 412 RF & Microwave Engineering

ELEC 412 RF & Microwave Engineering. Fall 2004 Lecture 20. What Does Stability Mean?. Stability circles determine what load or source impedances should be avoided for stable or non-oscillatory amplifier behavior

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ELEC 412 RF & Microwave Engineering

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  1. ELEC 412 RF & Microwave Engineering Fall 2004 Lecture 20 ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  2. What Does Stability Mean? • Stability circles determine what load or source impedances should be avoided for stable or non-oscillatory amplifier behavior • Because reactive loads are being added to amp the conditions for oscillation must be determined • So the Output Stability Circle determine the L or load impedance (looking into matching network from output of amp) that may cause oscillation • Input Stability Circle determine the S or impedance (looking into matching network from input of amp) that may cause oscillation ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  3. Criteria for Unconditional Stability • Unconditional Stability when amplifier remains stable throughout the entire domain of the Smith Chart at the operating bias and frequency. Applies to input and output ports. • For |S11| < 1 and |S22| < 1, the stability circles reside completely outside the |S| = 1 and |L| = 1 circles. ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  4. Unconditional Stability: Rollett Factor • |Cin| –rin | >1 and |Cout| –rout | >1 • Stability or Rollett factor k: with |S11| < 1 or |S22| < 1 and ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  5. Stabilization Methods • Stabilization methods can be used to for operation of BJT or FET found to be unstable at operating bias and frequency • One method is to add series or shunt conductance to the input or output of the active device in the RF signal path to “move” the source or load impedances out of the unstable regions as defined by the Stability Circles ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  6. Stabilization Using Series Resistance or Shunt Conductance ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  7. Stabilization Method: Smith Chart ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  8. Constant Gain: Unilateral Design (S12= 0) • Need to obtain desired gain performance • Basically we can “detune” the amp matching networks for desired gain • Unilateral power gain GTU implies S12 = 0 ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  9. Unilateral Power Gain Equations • Unilateral Power gain • Individual blocks are: • GTU (dB) = GS(dB) + G0(dB) +GL(dB) ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  10. Unilateral Gain Circles • If |S11| < 1 and |S22 |< 1 maximum unilateral power gain GTUmax when S = S11* and L = S22* • Normalized GS w.r.t. maximum: ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  11. Unilateral Gain Circles • Normalized GL w.r.t. maximums: • Results in circles with center and radii: ii = 11 or 22 depending on i = S or L ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  12. Gain Circle Observations • Gi max when i = Sii* and dgi = Sii* of radius rgi = 0 • Constant gain circles all have centers on line connecting the origin to Sii* • For the special case i = 0 the normalized gain is: gi = 1 - | Sii |2 and dgi = rgi = | Sii |/(1 + | Sii |2) • This implies that Gi= 1 (0dB) circle always passes through origin of i - plane ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  13. Input Matching Network Gain Circles S is detuned implying the matching network is detuned ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  14. Bilateral Amplifier Design (S12 included) • Complete equations required taking into account S12: Thus S*  S11 and L*  S22 ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  15. Bilateral Conjugate Match • Matched source reflection coefficient • Matched load reflection coefficient ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  16. Optimum Bilateral Matching ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  17. Design Procedure for RF BJT Amps • Bias the circuit as specified by data sheet with available S-Parameters • Determine S-Parameters at bias conditions and operating frequency • Calculate stability |k| > 1 and || < 1? • If unconditionally stable, design for gain • If |k|  1 and || 1 then draw Stability Circles on Smith Chart by finding rout, Cout, rin, and Cin radii and distances for the circles ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  18. Design Procedure for RF BJT Amps • Determine if L ( S22* for conjugate match) lies in unstable region – do same for S • If stable, no worries. • If unstable, add small shunt or series resistance to move effective S22* into stable region – use max outer edge real part of circle as resistance or conductance (do same for input side) • Can adjust gain by detuning L or S ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  19. Design Procedure for RF BJT Amps • To design for specified gain, must be less than GTU max (max unilateral gain small S12) • Recall that (know G0 = |S21|2) GTU [dB] = GS [dB] + G0 [dB] + GL [dB] • Detune either S or L • Draw gain circles for GS (or GL) for detuned S (or L) matching network • Overall gain is reduced when designed for (a) Stability and (b) detuned matching netw0rk ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  20. Design Procedure for RF BJT Amps • Further circles on the Smith Chart include noise circles and constant VSWR circles • Broadband amps often are feedback amps ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  21. RF Shunt-Shunt Feedback Amp Design S21 calculated from desired gain G ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  22. Distortion: 1 dB Compression ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  23. Distortion: 3rd Order Intermodulation Distortion ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

  24. Distortion: 3rd Order IMD Spurious Free Dynamic Range ELEC 412 - Lecture 20

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