Basic Electronics EC21101 Autumn 2009-2010

Class test 2 Solutions

1. An amplifier with voltage series feedback is having an overall voltage gain of 80. If
the voltage gain of the internal amplifier is increased by a factor of 5, the increase
in the overall voltage gain of the amplifier with feedback is observed to be only 5%.
Find out the gain of the internal amplifier (without feedback) and the feedback
factor.

Voltage gain with feedback, Av,f = Av / (1 + Av).

Thus
80 = Av / (1 + Av)

. . . . (1)

and
when the voltage gain Av is increased by a factor of 5, then
84 = 5Av / (1 + 5Av)

. . . . (2)

Solving equations (1) and (2), we get

Av = 1344 and = 0.01175595. (Ans)

2. a) A 12 bit ADC has LSB of 1mV, find SNR in dB and rms quantization noise.
b) A 24V DC motor needs digital voltage control to vary its speed with an accuracy of 0.1%.
Estimate minimum number of bits required by DAC.
c) A 2 bit binary counter is realized with a ROM, Latch and clock input. The ROM has one
mode control input M. When M=0 counter will count up and with M=1 it will count down.
i. What should be the size of the ROM?
ii. Write the content of the ROM with Address and Data output for all states.
a)

N=12
SNR = 6.02N + 1.76 dB = 6.02 x 12 + 1.76 = 74 dB
LSB = 1mV
RMS quantization noise = LSB / (12)0.5 = 1 / 3.46 = 0.288 mV

b)

Number of steps required = 24/(0.001x24) = 1000

Nearest binary number that is higher than 1000 is 210 = 1024.
Number of bits required by DAC = 10 bits.

c)
Out1

A1

Latch

A2
A3

ROM
Out2

M
Clock
Two bit binary counter values for up count (when M=0) and down count (when M=1) are,
M=A3 A2
A1
Out1 Out2
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
0
1
1
0
0
1
1
0
1
0
0
1
0
0
1
1
LHS columns are addresses to the memory locations in the ROM and RHS are the
outputs from the stored memory locations.
Total memory size required is 23 x 2 = 8 x 2 bits = 16 bits
(for similar example please ref. to pages 468, 469 of Lessons in Electronics circuit vol.
IV Digital , by Tony.R. Kuphaldt)