HSpice Tutorial #6

A Differential Amplifier


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Figure 1. The circuit of a Differential Amplifier

SPICE file: "diff_amp.sp"

* Anant Agarwal and Jeffrey H. Lang,
* Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits,
* Elsevier Inc., 2005.
*
* pages 382-384
* Examples 7.19 and 7.20
* Fig. 7.62

.OPTION POST

M1 n2 IN1 n1 gnd Nch L=0.5u W=1u
M2 out IN2 n1 gnd Nch L=0.5u W=1u

R1 n2 out 10k
Is n1 n3 0.5m
Vs1 gnd n3 10V
Vs2 n2 gnd 10V

Vgnd gnd 0 0V

**VIN1 IN1 gnd 2V
VIN1 IN1 gnd SIN ( 2V 0.3V 1Meg )
VIN2 IN2 gnd 2V

*** MOS Model
.model Nch NMOS level=1

.TRAN 0.01us 5us

.END

 

Use CosmosScope to open the ".tr0" file and then display the waveforms of "v(in1)", "v(in2)", and "v(out)".
Use your mouse and Drag the signal "v(in1)" to the place beneath "v(in2)" on the right of the "Graph0" window. The waveforms of v(in1) and v(in2) will be merged together as shown below.

     


last update: December 04, 2009