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School of Electrical and Information Engineering

University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
ELEN2016A — Electronics I (2020)

Quiz 12
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Question A
In the circuit given below, the two voltage sources are temperature sensors with
responses 𝑉1 = 𝑘𝑇1 and 𝑉2 = 𝑘𝑇2 , where 𝑘 = 50 𝑚𝑉/℃, 𝑅1 = 11 𝑘Ω , 𝑅𝐹 = 33 𝑘Ω, 𝑅2 = 27 𝑘Ω,
𝑅3 = 68 𝑘Ω, 𝑇1 = 35℃ and 𝑇2 = 100℃. Assume an ideal op-amp.
𝑹𝑭

𝑹𝟏
‒

𝑽𝟏 𝑹𝟐 𝑽𝑶

𝑽𝟐
𝑹𝟑

Determine the :

1. Expression for the output voltage in the form of 𝑉𝑜 = 𝐴𝐷 𝑉𝐷 + 𝐴𝐶𝑀 𝑉𝐶𝑀 .

2. Output voltage.
3. Input resistance seen by the source 𝑉1.
4. Input resistance seen by the source 𝑉2.
5. Common mode signal.
6. Differential signal.
7. Common mode component of the output signal.
8. Differential mode component of the output signal.
9. CMRR of the difference amplifier.

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Question B
In the amplifier shown below, 𝑉1 = 5 𝑉, 𝑉2 = 3 𝑉, 𝑅1 = 10 𝑘Ω and 𝑅2 = 100 𝑘Ω. Assume an
ideal op amp.

𝑹𝟐
𝑖𝐹

𝑹𝟏
𝑖1
‒
𝑖0
𝑽𝟏 𝑹𝟏 𝑽𝑶
𝑖2
+

𝑽𝟐
𝑹𝟐

Determine the following :

1. The voltage at the non-inverting terminal.
2. The voltage at the inverting terminal.
3. The current 𝑖1 .
4. The current 𝑖2 .
5. The output current, 𝑖𝑜 .
6. The output voltage, 𝑉𝑜 .
7. The gain of the amplifier.
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Question C
Consider the amplifier below.
𝑅𝐹

𝑹𝟏 𝑖1
+ 𝑽𝒐𝟏
OA1 𝑉3
𝑽𝟏
‒
𝑹

𝑽𝟏 ‒

𝑰 𝑹𝑮
OA3 𝑽𝒐
𝑽𝟐

𝑹 +
‒ 𝑹𝟐 𝑖2
OA2 𝑉4
+ 𝑽𝒐𝟐

𝑽𝟐 𝑹𝟑

Given that, 𝑉𝑆1 = 4.99 𝑉, 𝑉𝑆2 = 5.01 𝑉, 𝑅 = 4.9 𝑘Ω, 𝑅𝐺 = 200 Ω, 𝑅1 = 𝑅3 = 9.9 𝑘Ω, and that
𝑅𝐹 = 𝑅2 = 10.01 𝑘Ω, and assuming that the op amps are ideal, find the following values :

1. The voltages Vo1, V1, V2, Vo2, V3, V4, and Vo.
2. The currents 𝐼, 𝑖2 and 𝑖3 .
𝑉𝑂
3. The differential gain of the amplifier, .
𝑉𝐼2 − 𝑉𝐼1

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Question D
A non-inverting amplifier is to be designed to have an ideal closed loop gain of 40. The
voltage amplifier is to be built using an op amp with open loop gain 80 𝑑𝐵 and an internal
input resistance, 𝑟𝑖 = 2 𝑀Ω . The magnitude of the input resistor is fixed at 𝑅1 = 1 𝑘Ω. Find
the values of :

1. The magnitude of the feedback resistor 𝑅𝐹 .

2. The magnitude of the feedback factor 𝛽.
3. The non-ideal closed loop gain.
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4. The gain error expressed as a percent.

5. The non-ideal input resistance of the voltage amplifier.
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Question E
An inverting amplifier is to be designed to have an ideal closed loop gain of ‒40, and an
input resistance of 5 𝑘Ω. The voltage amplifier is to be built using an op amp which has
an open loop gain of 120 𝑑𝐵, an 𝑟𝑖 = 2 𝑀Ω, and an 𝑟𝑜 = 50 Ω. Find the value of :

1. The feedback resistor 𝑅𝐹 .

2. The non-ideal closed loop gain of the voltage amplifier.
3. The gain error expressed as a percent.
4. The non-ideal input resistance (𝑅𝑖(𝑛𝑜𝑛−𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙) ) of the amplifier.
5. The non-ideal output resistance (𝑅𝑜(𝑛𝑜𝑛−𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑎𝑙) ) of the amplifier.

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Question F
A voltage amplifier, made up of a non-inverting amplifier of gain 31, is cascaded with an
inverting voltage amplifier of gain ‒40. The input resistance 𝑅1 of both voltage amplifiers
is specified to be 2 kΩ. The power supply to the voltage amplifiers is ±15 𝑉 with saturation
occurring at ±13 𝑉. The op amp to be used is specified as having an input offset voltage,
𝑉𝑖𝑜 = 10 𝑚𝑉, and input bias current, 𝐼𝐵 = 500 𝑛𝐴. Assume ideal op-amps, and determine
the following :

1. The feedback resistors for each voltage amplifier.

2. The offset voltage at the output of the non-inverting amplifier.
3. The offset voltage at the output of the inverting amplifier.
4. The total worst-case offset voltage at the output of the cascaded amplifiers.
5. The offset minimising resistors (𝑅𝑂𝑀 ) for each voltage amplifier.

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Question G
An inverting voltage amplifier of gain ‒10 has a 200 kΩ feedback resistor. The op amp
used is specified to have an input offset voltage of 7.5 mV, and an input bias current of
800 𝑛𝐴. Find the following :

1. The output offset voltage due to input offset voltage.

2. The output offset voltage due to the input bias current.
3. The total worst-case output offset voltage.
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4. The magnitude of the offset minimizing resistor 𝑅𝑂𝑀 .

5. Design the OVCN for the inverting voltage amplifier.
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Question H
The input to a inverting amplifier of gain ‒50 is defined as 𝑉𝑖𝑛 = 0.2𝑆𝑖𝑛𝜔𝑡. The op amp to
be used to build the inverting amplifier has specified parameters of 𝐴𝑂𝐿 = 400 𝑉/𝑚𝑉,
∆𝑉𝑖𝑜
𝑟𝑖 = 2 𝑀Ω, 𝑟𝑜 = 50 Ω, 𝑉𝑖𝑜 = 7.5 𝑚𝑉, 𝐼𝐵 = 650 𝑛𝐴, 𝐼𝑖𝑜 = 50 𝑛𝐴, 𝑠𝑙𝑒𝑤 𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒 = 1.0 𝑉/𝜇𝑉, = 15 𝜇𝑉/℃
∆𝑇
∆𝐼𝑖𝑜
and = 0.5 𝑛𝐴/℃. The input resistor 𝑅1 of the voltage amplifier is to be 2 𝑘Ω. Consider
∆𝑇
an uncompensated circuit at 25℃ and determine the following :

1. The voltage amplifier gain error as a percentage.

2. The total output offset voltage.
3. The maximum input frequency (𝑓𝑚𝑎𝑥 ) for which the voltage amplifier is not slew
rated.
4. If the circuit is compensated at 25℃, and then the temperature increases to 55℃,
determine the total offset voltage at the output of the amplifier.
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_________________________________________________________________________________ Dr Shuma-Iwisi & Dr Xriz