Department of Electronics & Telecommunication Engineering

Course: Electronic Circuit Devices

Lab No: 11

Title: Cascade Amplifier

CID: ________________

Date: _______________

S. No. Name SID Initials Marks

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Faculty/Lab Engineer

Comments
Aim: To construct a CASCADE Amplifier Circuit and to plot its frequency response Characteristics

Apparatus Required:

S. No. Name Range Quantity

1 Transistor 2N3904 2
2 Resistor A/c To Circuit
3 Capacitor A/c To Circuit
4 CRO 20Mhz
5 Regulated Power Supply 0-30Vdc
6 Bread Board
7 Function Generator 0-3Mhz

Theory: A CASCADE amplifier has many of the benefits as CASCODE.A cascade is basically a differential
amplifier with one input grounded and the side with the real input has no load. It can also be seen as
Common Collector followed by a Common Base.

By cascading a CE stage followed by a CC stage a good voltage amplifier results. CE input resistance is
very high and output resistance of the CC is low. The CC contributes in no voltage gain but provides a
near voltage source (low resistance) Output so that the gain is nearly independent of the load. High
input resistance of the CE amplifier stage makes the input voltage nearly independent of source
resistance. Multiple CE amplifier stages can be cascaded and CC stages inserted in between them to
reduce attenuation due to inter-stage Loading.
 1. Connections are made as per the circuit diagram.
2. The waveforms at the input and output are observed for the Cascade Operations by varying the
input frequency.
3. The biasing resistances needed to locate a Q-point are determined.
4. Set the input voltage at 1V and by varying the input frequency, note the output voltage
5. Calculate gain=20 log( Vo/Vi).
6. A graph is plotted between frequency and gain.

Frequency Response of CASCADE Amplifier

Frequency (in Hz) Output voltage Vo (in Voltage) Gain=20log( Vo/Vi) dB

Review Questions:

What is meant by CASCADING?

What is the overall gain of the two stage CASCADE AMPLIFIER?

What methods are used for cascading?

What is the disadvantage of the directly coupled CASCADE Amplifier?

Write some applications of CASCADE Amplifier?