Qualcomm Interview Question

How to make sure the 2-stage opamp is stable? How does the compensation work?

Interview Answers

Anonymous

Jul 31, 2013

Using Miller compensation. A compensation capacitor across the 2nd stage to create pole splitting. A series resistor to the cap might be needed to solve the rhp zero problem

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Anonymous

Nov 26, 2014

Using compensation capacitor, which makes the low frequency pole's frequency become lower and high frequency pole's frequency higher, so OPmap is more stable.

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Anonymous

Jan 11, 2015

Using compensation network including capacitor and resistor and monitoring the phase margin and gain margin as well.

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Anonymous

Jun 26, 2012

Use compensation capacitor. Look up pole splitting which uses Miller effect on the capacitor.

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Anonymous

Jun 29, 2012

By constructing current mirror circuit using op-amp 741 through compensation resistor at the feedback side. Finally the input and output of the op-amp gets compensated.

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