Assignment 1

By
Devanshu Kaushik (2008A8PS236G)

Submitted in partial fulfilment

of the requirements of the course INSTR C313:
Microelectronic Circuits

22 October 2010
 Cadence Tool Simulation

Large Signal Analysis:-

Large Signal analysis is carried out essentially with the DC voltage at
the gate varied from zero to say VDD (which is 5 V in this case). It is
helpful in calculating parameters such as transconductance (gm),
large signal voltage gain (Av), the Threshold voltage (VTH) etc.

Shown below is the schematic I used for the Large Signal Analysis of a
common source amplifier with source degeneration:-
After the circuit is established and drawn as a schematic, I then
proceeded to the Analog Design Environment (ADE) to plot the
various graphs (using DC analysis) shown below:-

1. Vout v/s Vin to calculate gain:

2. Vout v/s Vin to calculate threshold voltage:

3. Id v/s Vin to calculate transconductance:

Small Signal Analysis:-
Small signal analysis is carried out by placing a DC bias point at the
gate of the MOSFET (In this case I have done it using two resistances
of 5 KΩ each on either side of the Gate making the bias point as 2.5
V). The input small signal (sinusoidal in this case) is connected to the
Gate through a capacitor to block out the DC noise. The output also
has a capacitance with the same purpose. The circuit for small signal
analysis is as shown:-
 After the circuit is established and drawn as a schematic, I then
proceeded to the Analog Design Environment (ADE) to plot the
various graphs (using Transient Analysis) shown:-

1. Id v/s Vin:-

2. Vout v/s Vin:-

Finding out Rin and Rout:-
After small signal analysis I proceeded to find out two characteristic
resistances of the circuit : Resistance offered by the circuit as viewed
from the output (Rout) and Resistance offered by the circuit as viewed
from the input (Rin). Both resistances are calculated by connecting a
voltage source (DC) at the respective nodes one by one, grounding all
other voltage sources in the circuit and performing the DC analysis
by varying the voltage of the voltage source inserted and plotting the
variation of the current through it v/s the voltage across it.

Shown below are the two circuits:-

1. Schematic for calculating Rout:-
 2. Schematic for calculating Rin:-

Shown below are the plots of current v/s voltage:-

1. Plot for calculating Rout:-
2. Plot for calculating Rin:-