Spring 2004
ENSC 895: SPECIAL TOPICS: THEORY, ANALYSIS, AND SIMULATION OF NONLINEAR CIRCUITS

Assignment #8:

  • Prepare for Quiz #2.

  • If you have not already done so, please send me a short paragraph describing your project.

  • 1. Each transistor in the one-port shown on page 19, Lecture #8, is characterized by the usual Ebers-Moll nonlinear large-signal transistor model. Explain why it would be possible of the one-port v-i relation to have one (which one?) of the forms shown.

  • 2. For the two circuits shown on page 20, Lecture #8, find the coefficient C^{ij} in the expression for det(AD+B) that could be negative. What are the conditions imposed on circuit parameters so that each circuits can possess more than one operating dc point? Which of the v-i characteristics (N-type, S-type, or C-type) across the one-port each circuit might possess? For each circuit consider two cases, when the one-port is:
  • voltage driven
  • current driven.

    Posted: March 11, 2004
    Due: March 18, 2004.

    Last modified: Sunday March 14 23:51:25 PST 2004.