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本帖最后由 ch639827608 于 2012-3-7 17:31 编辑
Negative feedback is good at reducing all forms of distortion, linear and nonlinear. As a
concept, it's pretty straight-forward: You create one of more gain stages in series in order to
get enough gain to equal the final gain figure you want plus the amount of feedback you think
you want to use.
As the feedback figure exceeds 20 dB or so, you find that all the measurements will improve
by the amount of additional feedback. If the open loop distortion of the amplifier is 5%, then
60 dB of feedback should make it about .005%. It's relatively easy to construct additional
stages or to milk existing stages for more open loop gain, so why not 80 dB for .0005%?
Sounds like something for nothing, doesn't it?
Not quite. I think it's a bit more like a credit card – convenient if used wisely, but carrying
interest payments and penalties when it's not.
Negative Feedback and Higher Order Harmonics
Years ago Peter Baxandall pointed out that while negative feedback reduces distortion, it
creates additional higher order harmonics in the process. Others have confirmed this
phenomenon experimentally and in computer simulations. I found Figure 10 on the internet,
attributed to John Linsley-Hood:
Here we see that as low feedback figures are applied to a single gain stage the 2nd harmonic
declines linearly with feedback, but increased amounts of higher order harmonics are created.
As feedback increases above about 15 dB or so, all these forms of distortion declining in
proportion to increased feedback.
Negative loop feedback creates higher order distortion harmonics, and there seems to be an
implication that you might want to use lots of feedback if you plan on using any at all. Some
designers look at it this way, others to use feedback sparingly, and some refuse to use it at all. |
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