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How to measure the Slew Rate

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Given an amplifier, how to simulate the SR in Spice. for example, amplifier's freq about 40MHz, what about the input pulse signal, such as peroid or frequency ?
 

I would drive this amplifier with a square-wave signal with a freq. for example 100kHz.Then I would measure its slew rate by displaying the first derivative of Vout.
The peak values should be what you need.
 

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batdin said:
I would drive this amplifier with a square-wave signal with a freq. for example 100kHz.Then I would measure its slew rate by displaying the first derivative of Vout.
The peak values should be what you need.
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why 100KHz, how to decide the range of input frequency? I had experienced bad output when using the square-wave input as T=50ns, that is freq=20MHz (the amplifier worked in 40MHz input sinewave), if I increase the peroide to about 50us (freq=20KHz), the output is normal, i,e, the output is the amplified square-wave with small distortion.
So i dn't know how to choice the exact input frequency, and what the influce of different input square-wave?
 

Hi,

Slew Rate is defined as the maximum output voltage rate(either positive or negative). For typical two stage amplifier, SR=Imax/C,where Imax is the tail current and C is the compensation capacitor.

If you choose sine wave input signal, you need to make ω larger than SR/A (A is the sine wave amplitude). Similarly,if you choose square wave input signal, you need to make the rise/fall slope larger than SR.

hope it helps.

regards,
jordan76
 

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Hi again,
100 kHz is more or less a random choice.
It could as well be 30.2435 kHz :)
But if it's too high,the amplifier will behave strangely.
If it's too low,the spikes you need to measure will be very few.
40MHz is the small-signal unity-gain bandwidth of the amplifier.
It won't work correctly at that frequency.
The amplitude of the input square-wave signal should be enough to provide the necessary output level (let's say Vcc-3V) but not to saturate the amp.
 

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