[time-nuts] Low noise power supplies?

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Ok, but open loop as I described?

I bicmos design, there are two common "junk" buffers. The junkiest (sp?) is going up a PNP and down a NPN. No feedback. You live with the vbe mismatch. Next up the food chain is the long tail pair (diff amp) with emitter follower. With one gain stage, it is reasonable stable. 

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From: "John Miles" <jmiles at pop.net>
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Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2013 01:30:24 
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> Are 4 and 5 regulated? Or is the zener picked to compensate for the VBE
> drops?
> 
> Any of these circuits where the output transistor is in an emitter
> follower configuration will have its noise effected by the load current,
> since that current directly effects the output transistor
transconductance.

The load in all cases was a couple hundred mA worth of resistance at the
voltage in question, as I recall.  It's been a few years since I captured
these plots.

The Zeners were just whatever parts came to hand, 1N474x parts basically.  I
didn't care about the 1.4V drop across the Darlington, just the resulting
noise.

-- john
Miles Design LLC



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