01:25 - Intro and Review of Lecture 20 04:28 - General Procedure for Frequency Response Computation 10:58 - Preview of Analysis Circuits 13:12 - CE/CS Stage Frequency Response 24:00 - CE/CS Stage Frequency Response: Finding Poles by Inspection 32:20 - CE/CS Stage Frequency Response: Bode's Plot 34:15 - CE/CS Stage Frequency Response: Exact Analysis 44:15 - CE/CS Stage Frequency Response: Observations and Dominant Pole Approximation
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It is harder to understand the Sedra Smith's book, but it has some more deep explanations. In my opinion, combining Mr's Razavi lectures with Sedra Smith's book is the BEST WAY to learn as of 2024!!! Once you completely master Sedra Smith's book, you move to Arts Of Electronics (which the E-book is free by the way) and you master hundreds of actual circuit applications.
Thank you so much sir for your generosity of your knowledge and explaining everything so well and in detail. You are blessing and treasure to this world. God bless you and your family.
I think Prof Razavi's denominator in the transfer function at 43:00 might be wrong. I put the KCL equations through a symbolic solver and got the following for the transfer function : R_D*(g_m - C_GS*s)/R_D*R_G*s^2*(C_DB*C_GD + C_DB*C_GS + C_GS^2) + s*(C_DB*R_D + C_GD*R_D*R_G*g_m + C_GD*R_G + C_GS*R_D + C_GS*R_G) + 1. The difference being with the square term on the denominator, where instead of C_GS*C_GB, I got C_GS^2. Not super important, but caused me some confusion.
One question, at ~ 31:50 why is the transistor Current Source = g_m * V_1 considered an independent current source? This source should not be set to zero.
