Unit 6: BJT Small Signal Amplifiers
Learning Objectives
After completing this chapter, you should be able to:
- Determine the voltage gain, input impedance and output impedance of simple BJT amplifiers.
- Detail the functional differences between voltage amplifiers and voltage followers.
- Explain the advantages and disadvantages of using localized feedback (swamping). D
- etermine the combined characteristics of multistage BJT amplifiers.
- Detail the advantages and disadvantages of using direct coupling versus capacitor coupling in multistage amplifiers.
- Explain the operation of the Darlington pair.