EMITTER-BIAS

CONFIGURATION
Emitter Resistor
Improves Bias
Stability

DC equivalent:

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 Advantage: Improved Bias stability
against temperature variations:
T ICEO IC IE IE RE
IB IC
Disadvantage: Increased power
consumption, Reduction in voltage
gain (can be minimized by using a
capacitor across RE: Emitter bypass
capacitor CE) 3
Example

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 VOLTAGE-DIVIDER BIAS
CONFIGURATION

More flexibility in
design
RB is replaced by R1-
R2 voltage divider
network
Analysis is
complicated
Use Thevenins
Theorem 5
 DC
Equivalent
Circuit

Find
Thevenin
s
equivalent
for series
connectio
n of VCC- 6
 Solving input loop:

Solving output loop:

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 Example:
Determine the dc bias voltage VCE
and the current IC for the voltage
divider configuration of Fig.

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Summary: BJT DC Biasing