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Feedback loop simulation and Switched cap (Read 3948 times)

joeb Junior Member Offline Posts: 10	Feedback loop simulation and Switched cap Jul 03^rd, 2007, 9:44am Hi, How you check the stability of your amplifier in a switched cap configuration? In case of gain boosting op amp, how you check the stability of ur overall amplifier. How to use stb option in cadence? What stb does exactly? Thanks for your answers.
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topquark

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Re: Feedback loop simulation and Switched cap
Reply #1 - Jul 11^th, 2007, 7:38am

Hope you already searched for some links on the topic.
here's one:
http://www.designers-guide.org/Forum/YaBB.pl?num=1156429424/0#0

A quicker 'n simpler way (which may not work always) to get a gain/phase margin plot is to break open the loop, put ideal volatge sources at appropriate nodes 'n do ac analysis sweeing freq.

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joeb Junior Member Offline Posts: 10	Re: Feedback loop simulation and Switched cap Reply #2 - Jul 12^th, 2007, 12:50am Hi Thanks for ur answer. I think that is the best one.
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Ken Kundert Global Moderator Offline Posts: 2386 Silicon Valley	Re: Feedback loop simulation and Switched cap Reply #3 - Jul 12^th, 2007, 11:04am Never break the loop. Use stb analysis instead. It computes the loop gain, and then extracts the phase and gain margins from that. If your amplifier has switched-capacitor common-mode feedback, you will need to use pstb analysis. -Ken
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HdrChopper

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Re: Feedback loop simulation and Switched cap
Reply #4 - Jul 14^th, 2007, 9:31pm

hi,

To check for the op-amp stability I would replace the switched caps by the equivalent resistor value and I�d analyze the stability by computing gain/phase margin (easy and fast). You can either open the loop appropriately (be careful you are able to recreate the same DC loading conditions at the node you break the loop when you run your AC analysis!) or could run your stb analysis (which I do not like much since you never know exactly where the bias point is calculated).

Keep it simple

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