Lab Exercise No.

1
Common-Emitter Amplifier
with Degenerative Emitter Feedback Resistor

Wilbert Angelo Bedanio, Dave Winkler Magdadaro

Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering
School of Engineering, University of San Carlos
Nasipit, Talamban Cebu City, Philippines
19103035@usc.edu.ph, 19101226@usc.edu.ph

Introduction:
In this activity and using LTSpice, you will validate the date which were obtain from the
example presented in this module or unit.

Procedure:
1. Launch LTSpice and build the common-emitter transistor amplifier schematic shown in
Figure E1.1.

Put a .op spice directive in the schematic. This is done in LTSpice by clicking the .op button
located on rightmost of the menu bar in LTSpice. Then, run the simulation. This is done
by clicking the running man icon on the menu bar in LTSpice. Hover the cursor at base of
the transistor and note the lower left corner display of LTSpice, it should read
775.33561mV. Now put this as the DC offset voltage of the input voltage Vs, which should
now read SINE (775.33561mV 100mV 1KHz).
2. Add a label net Vin at the base of the transistor and change the .op spice directive to .TF
V(Vout) Vs. Your schematic in LTSpice should now look the diagram shown in Figure
E1.2.

3. Now run the simulation by clicking the running man button. A display now should appear
showing the value of the input and out impedance.
4. Solving for the Theoretical Values
Fill out the table below.

Impedances Theoretical Value Simulation Value

Input base Impedance, 38273 Ω 36730 Ω

Output collector Impedance 6000 Ω 5918 Ω

Comments on the Values obtained:

The observed input impedance has a theoretical value of 38.27 k Ω and has a simulated
value of 36.73 k Ω. It has a percent error of 4.03% which means that there is no significant
difference between the two values. On the other hand, the output impedance has a percent error of
1.39% which means that there is also no significant difference between the values. Base from the
results and the low percent errors therefore, the simulation was correctly performed.