Symbolic distortion analysis of non-linear elements in feedback amplifiers using describing functions

✍ Scribed by Henrik Floberg; Sven Mattisson

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1995
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 544 KB
• Volume: 23
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0098-9886
• DOI: 10.1002/cta.4490230408

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

This paper presents a new appoach based on the use of describing functions to obtain approximate symbolic expressions for the fundamental frequency component as well as for the second‐ and third‐order harmonics. A single soft or hard transconductance non‐linearity embedded in an arbitrary linear network is studied. Three examples are considered.