Mediaspace scheduled maintenance: Aug 25, 2026 07:00 - 12:00 AM. During this time, videos will be temporarily unavailable. Check status updates.

Lecture

Feedback and Stability: General Structure and Analysis

Description

This lecture covers the fundamental concepts of feedback and stability in amplifier design. It starts by explaining the basic principles of negative feedback and its advantages, such as desensitizing gain, reducing distortion, and controlling noise. The lecture then delves into the general feedback structure, including signal-flow diagrams and closed-loop gain calculations. It further explores the loop gain, its significance, and how it affects amplifier performance. The systematic analysis of feedback voltage amplifiers is discussed, focusing on input and output resistances, as well as the impact of loading effects. Practical examples, like the noninverting amplifier, are used to illustrate the concepts and analysis methods.

This video is available exclusively on Mediaspace for a restricted audience. Please log in to MediaSpace to access it if you have the necessary permissions.

Watch on Mediaspace

Official source

Ontological neighbourhood

Physics

Electromagnetism: Electrical networks

Related concepts (32)

Operational amplifier

An operational amplifier (often op amp or opamp) is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input and, usually, a single-ended output. In this configuration, an op amp produces an output potential (relative to circuit ground) that is typically 100,000 times larger than the potential difference between its input terminals. The operational amplifier traces its origin and name to analog computers, where they were used to perform mathematical operations in linear, non-linear, and frequency-dependent circuits.

Negative-feedback amplifier

A negative-feedback amplifier (or feedback amplifier) is an electronic amplifier that subtracts a fraction of its output from its input, so that negative feedback opposes the original signal. The applied negative feedback can improve its performance (gain stability, linearity, frequency response, step response) and reduces sensitivity to parameter variations due to manufacturing or environment. Because of these advantages, many amplifiers and control systems use negative feedback.

Negative feedback

Negative feedback (or balancing feedback) occurs when some function of the output of a system, process, or mechanism is fed back in a manner that tends to reduce the fluctuations in the output, whether caused by changes in the input or by other disturbances. Whereas positive feedback tends to lead to instability via exponential growth, oscillation or chaotic behavior, negative feedback generally promotes stability. Negative feedback tends to promote a settling to equilibrium, and reduces the effects of perturbations.

Amplifier

An amplifier, electronic amplifier or (informally) amp is an electronic device that can increase the magnitude of a signal (a time-varying voltage or current). It is a two-port electronic circuit that uses electric power from a power supply to increase the amplitude (magnitude of the voltage or current) of a signal applied to its input terminals, producing a proportionally greater amplitude signal at its output. The amount of amplification provided by an amplifier is measured by its gain: the ratio of output voltage, current, or power to input.

Feedback

Feedback occurs when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a chain of cause-and-effect that forms a circuit or loop. The system can then be said to feed back into itself. The notion of cause-and-effect has to be handled carefully when applied to feedback systems: Simple causal reasoning about a feedback system is difficult because the first system influences the second and second system influences the first, leading to a circular argument.

Related lectures (32)

Imperfections of Operational Amplifiers: Imperfections MOOC: Electronics I

Explores the imperfections of operational amplifiers and their impact on performance.

Measuring Systems and Op-Amps: Applications in ECG and PPG

Explores voltage amplifiers, op-amp characteristics, and applications in ECG and PPG.

Operational Amplifier: Negative Feedback MOOC: Electronics I

Covers operational amplifiers in negative feedback circuits and their applications.

Feedback and Stability Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video

Explores negative feedback in analog circuits, focusing on desensitizing gain, reducing distortion, controlling noise, and extending bandwidth.

Operational Amplifiers: Basics and Applications Log in to Mediaspace to watch this video