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Re: gEDA-user: High speed decoupling



On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 06:14:54PM -0700, John Doty wrote:
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> On Mar 12, 2006, at 3:59 AM, David Hart wrote:
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> >
> >I was particularly impressed in this webinar, and the subject of  
> >thermal
> >noise generated by resistors in an analog circuit. I'd forgotten that
> >resistors with higher values contribute more thermal noise.
> 
> Depends on whether noise voltage or current is the dominant effect in  
> that part of the circuit. Bipolar transistor current mirrors are  
> noisy, but adding large emitter resistors makes them quieter...

What if you block the BE junction with a capacitor instead? Does it
decrease the noise too?

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> John Doty              Noqsi Aerospace, Ltd.
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