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Negative Feedback On Output Impedance

Negative feedback reduces an amplifier's output impedance for voltage feedback and increases it for current feedback. Negative feedback also stabilizes and linearizes gain, making amplifiers behave closer to ideal models. In practice, feedback networks use precise resistors and capacitors to define amplifier characteristics independently of active devices, improving precision and stability. The design process for negative feedback amplifiers involves selecting the feedback type and ratio, choosing a feedback network configuration, determining component values through tradeoffs, and simulating the design.

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Negative Feedback On Output Impedance

Negative feedback reduces an amplifier's output impedance for voltage feedback and increases it for current feedback. Negative feedback also stabilizes and linearizes gain, making amplifiers behave closer to ideal models. In practice, feedback networks use precise resistors and capacitors to define amplifier characteristics independently of active devices, improving precision and stability. The design process for negative feedback amplifiers involves selecting the feedback type and ratio, choosing a feedback network configuration, determining component values through tradeoffs, and simulating the design.

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Negative feedback on output impedance

• For voltage feedback, (it could be either series or parallel feedback), the
closed-loop impedance is
Rof  Ro /(1  A )
so, voltage feedback decrease the output impedance
• Similarly, for current feedback (either series or parallel feedback), the
closed-loop impedance is
Rof  Ro (1  A )
so, current feedback increase the output impedance

• As a summary, negative feedback tends to stabilize and linearize gain, which


are desired effects.
• For a certain type of amplifier, negative feedback tends to produce an ideal
amplifier of that type.
• For example, series voltage feedback increases input impedance, reduces
output impedance, which gets closer to an ideal voltage amplifier.
• So, negative feedback should be used in amplifiers circuits.

- by FaaDoOEngineers.com 1
Some practical feedback network in amplifiers
• In practice, negative feedback network consists of resistor or capacitors , whose
value is much more precise and stable than active devices (such as transistors).
Then amplifier characteristics mainly depends on feedback network, thereby
achieving precision and stability.

- by FaaDoOEngineers.com 2
Design of negative feedback amplifiers
• A few steps to design negative feedback amplifiers:
 Select the feedback type and determine feedback ratio

 Select an appropriate circuit configuration for the feedback
network (adjustable resistor can be used so that feedback
ratio can be set precisely)
 Select appropriate values for resistance in the feedback
network (this could be a difficult step due to various
tradeoffs)
E.g., in series voltage feedback (like the non-inverting amplifier), we do
not want the feedback resistance too small because it loads the output
of the amplifier, on the other hand, we do not want feedback resistance
too large because it would cause part of the source signal to be lost).
 Verify the design using Computer Simulations (real circuits
could be very different from the ideal case)

- by FaaDoOEngineers.com 3
An example of feedback voltage amplifier
• Real input and
output impedance
is different from
what is predicted
from the formula in
the ideal case. But
it is always a good
initial guess.

• You might need to


try out multiple
iterations to
achieve a good
design.

- by FaaDoOEngineers.com 4

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