Small Signal Analysis of a PMOS transistor Consider the following PMOS transistor to be in saturation Then 1 ISD pCox VSG Vtp 2 1 VSD 2 From this equation it is evident that ISD is a function of VSG VSD and VSB where VSB appears due to the threshold voltage when we have to consider the body effect Therefore if we are interested in small changes in the source to drain current of the transistor as we are in small signal modeling we must consider how the current changes with respect to each of these voltages independently In particular where each of the partial derivatives are given special names Here we refer to gm as the transconductance gmb as the backgate transconductance gds as the outputconductance Thanks to superposition we can simply model each of the three components in the above isd equation as dependent current sources which are dependent on the three small signal voltages and connect from the source to the drain of the transistor Pictorially One thing to notice is that the dependent current source caused by the vsd voltage is dependent on the voltage across it i e a resistor Therefore we make a small modification to the following model as follows Where ro is nothing more than 1 gds Another observation to make is that if the source and bulk of the transistor are tied together we can neglect the gmbvsb current source since vsb 0 To further understand small signal modeling lets consider a couple of examples In particular the following two examples will show you how to set up the small signal model of a couple useful circuit configurations used in amplifers Example 1 Small Signal analysis of a diode connected transistor Consider the following circuit VDD The first thing to point out is that there is no such thing as an ideal current source However we can model a realistic current source as an ideal current source in parallel with a resistor as shown below With this in mind the question is how do we set up the small signal model of the above circuit Step 1 We want to remove all DC sources DC voltage sources become short circuits DC current sources become open circuits Why Recall small signal models are used to examine small changes in voltage current A DC voltage source is an electrical element that forces a particular node in the circuit to a certain voltage Thus a DC voltage source does not allow the voltage to change even by a small amount An element that realizes this is a perfect wire since a wire indicates no change in voltage regardless of the current through it Hence a DC voltage source is modeled as a short circuit Similar reasoning will indicate that a current source is modeled as an open circuit Step 2 Draw the small signal model of the transistor with all nodes connected as they are in the circuit For example here we see that the drain of the transistor is connected to the gate Similarly r oc is connected to the drain Therefore we come up with the following small signal model realizing that the source and bulk are tied to the same potential thus removing the gmbvds current source Or equivalently Example 2 A cascode current source As you will learn later in the semester one way to increase the gain of an amplifier is to set up a cascode current source Therefore it is important to understand how to set up the small signal model Here we have two transistors M2 and M1 connected in series For this example the body of M2 is not connected to the source of M2 Therefore we must consider the body effect Step 1 Remove all the DC sources Here we see both the gates are set to DC biases which are actually just diode connected transistors Therefore the will want to short circuit these components to ground Draw the small signal model of the transistor with all nodes connected as they are in the circuit Here we see that the drain of transistor M1 is connected to the source of M2 Also the source of M1 is connected to ground and the drain of M2 is connected to the output Furthermore since the body of transistor 1 is tied to the same potential as the source of transistor 1 the gmb1vbs1 current source is zero and not included With these connections we come up with the following small signal model I hope these examples help you learn how to set up small signal models It is important that you understand these concepts because as you begin to examine amplifiers you will use small signal modeling extensively to solve for quantities such as voltage gain current gain output resistance input resistance etc
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