eLearning Archive: Design-Oriented Feedback Analysis
This course is part of our eLearning Archive, which includes older courses that may not be current or as user-friendly as courses designed more recently.
This course introduces the General Feedback Theorem (GFT). Feedback systems are usually designed with the familiar single-loop block diagram in mind. Various nonidealities, such as unavoidable minor loops and direct forward transmission, make the single-loop block diagram progressively less useful. The GFT defines a "natural" block diagram model that is identical in format to the single-loop model that is conventionally assumed; thus providing a desirable link between general feedback theory and a detailed circuit diagram analyzed in terms of factored pole-zero transfer functions. The GFT is illustrated on a potentially unstable Darlington emitter/source follower stage, and leads to design criteria that limit the maximum peaking regardless of the value of the load capacitance. Another example is a two-stage feedback amplifier having various nonidealities, including loading interactions at all points, direct forward transmission, and two minor loops. The GFT is computer friendly and emphasis is on the numerical and graphical results obtained by use of an Intusoft ICAP/4 circuit simulator.
What you will learn:
- Review general Feedback Theorem (GFT) systems
Related courses:
Who should attend: Electrical engineer, Systems engineer, Hardware engineer, Design engineer, Product engineer, Communication engineer
Instructor
R. David Middlebrook
A distinguished international lecturer, Dr. R. David Middlebrook is Professor Emeritus of Electrical Engineering at the California Institute of Technology, and is particularly noted for presenting complex material in a simple, interesting, effective, and often entertaining manner, for which the Caltech student body has recognized him as an Outstanding Teacher.
Publication Year: 2005
ISBN:0-7803-9659-6