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Two-Port Feedback Analysis On Miller-Compensated Amplifiers

Systems and Control 2022-07-25 v1 Systems and Control

Abstract

In this paper, various Miller-compensated amplifiers are analyzed by using the two-port feedback analysis together with the root-locus diagram. The proposed analysis solves problems of Miller theorem/approximation that fail to predict a pole-splitting and that require an impractical assumption that an initial lower frequency pole before connecting a Miller capacitor in a two-stage amplifier should be associated with the input of the amplifier. Since the proposed analysis sheds light on how the closed-loop poles originate from the open-loop poles in the s-plane, it allows the association of the closed-loop poles with the circuit components and thus provides a design insight for frequency compensation. The circuits analyzed are two-stage Miller-compensated amplifiers with and without a current buffer and a three-stage nested Miller-compensated amplifier.

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@article{arxiv.2207.10983,
  title  = {Two-Port Feedback Analysis On Miller-Compensated Amplifiers},
  author = {Myungjun Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.10983},
  year   = {2022}
}
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