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Lab 3 External Opamp Compensation: Analysis

This document describes an experiment to externally compensate an operational amplifier driving large capacitive loads. It involves analyzing three op-amp circuit configurations - without compensation, with a compensation resistor, and with compensation resistor and capacitor. The objective is to learn techniques to stabilize the op-amp and reduce overshoot and settling time when driving large capacitive loads. Analysis is performed to derive expressions for open-loop response for each circuit. HSPICE simulations are then used to generate plots of overshoot and settling time versus load capacitance for each circuit. Finally, the circuits are built experimentally to validate the simulated results.

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Lab 3 External Opamp Compensation: Analysis

This document describes an experiment to externally compensate an operational amplifier driving large capacitive loads. It involves analyzing three op-amp circuit configurations - without compensation, with a compensation resistor, and with compensation resistor and capacitor. The objective is to learn techniques to stabilize the op-amp and reduce overshoot and settling time when driving large capacitive loads. Analysis is performed to derive expressions for open-loop response for each circuit. HSPICE simulations are then used to generate plots of overshoot and settling time versus load capacitance for each circuit. Finally, the circuits are built experimentally to validate the simulated results.

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LAB 3 External Opamp Compensation

I. Objective
Learn some techniques to externally compensate an opamp driving large capacitive
loads.

II. Preparation

Analysis

Assume the small-signal opamp model shown in Figure 2 where  p1 = 1   R 1 C 1  is a


dominant pole and  p2 is at a much higher frequency.
1. For the circuit of Figure 1(a), find an expression for open-loop response L(s) . Find an
expression for the value of load capacitance C L at which the opamp will exhibit 10%

R iso
Vo Vo
Vi Vi
CL CL
(a) (b)

Vo
Vi
Rs CL
(c) Cs
Figure 1: Unity-gain Opamp Circuits

v1
v out

g m1 v in R1 C1 g m2 v 1 R2 C2

Figure 2: A simple small-signal model of the two-stage opamp.

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overshoot. (The expression will be in terms of the opamp model parameters, g mi , R i , etc.)
Sketch a Bode plot of the open-loop response in this case.

2. For the circuit of Figure 1(b), find an expression for open-loop response L(s) . For the
same value of C L as in part 1, sketch a Bode plot of the open-loop response with R iso in place.
What is the effect of R iso ?

3. For the circuit of Figure 1(c), find an expression for open-loop response L(s) . For the
same value of C L as in part 1, sketch a Bode plot of the open-loop response with R s and C s in
place. What is the effect of R s and C s ?

HSPICE Simulation

1. Simulate the circuit of Figure 1(a) using HSPICE and the opamp model provided on the
course website.

• Apply a step input at V i of amplitude 100 mV and with R L = 2 k . Sweep C L over


a wide range and observe the resulting step responses at V o . Produce plots of:
• overshoot vs. C L
• 95% settling time vs. C L

2. Repeat part 1 for the circuit of Figure 1 (b). Use a value of R iso = 50  .

3. Repeat part 1 for the circuit of Figure 1 (c). Use values of R s = 30  and C s = 5 nF .

You should have 6 plots in total. What was the effect of introducing the additional
compensation components in Figures 1 (b) and (c) upon overshoot and settling time?

III. Experiment
1. Connect the circuits in Figures 1 (a) (b) and (c) in the lab reproduce the plots you
obtained from simulation, this time measuring them experimentally. Use at least 10 different
nicely-spaced values of load capacitance, C L , to produce good plots. (Of course, you may
connect multiple capacitors in parallel to do this.) Use the values for R iso , R s and C s that were
suggested in the preparation section.

2. How do your measured results compare with the simulated results?


Present your final measured results to the TA at the end of the lab. Be prepared to discuss
your measured results in relation with your analysis and simulated results.

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