Analysis of First- and Second-Order
Transient Circuits
< Chapter-7 >
Jongsik Kim
High-Speed Integrated Circuits and Systems Lab.
Department of Wireless Communications Engineering
Kwangwoon University
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Outline
• First- and Second-Order Circuits
• Charge and Discharge Time
• General Form of the Response Equations
• Examples
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1st- and 2nd- Order Circuits
• First-order circuit : single storage element
First-order differential equation
• Circuit’s time constant – Transient analysis
How fast the circuit will respond to changes
• Second-order circuit : an inductor and a capacitor are present
simultaneously
• Laplace transform
• PSPICE
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Charge and Discharge Time
ex : flash circuit in a camera
free-body diagram
KCL
dC (t ) C (t )
C
dt
R
0 C (t ) V0et RC
dC (t ) 1 Decaying exponentially
C (t ) 0
dt RC with function of RC
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General Form of the Response Equations (1/4)
• Solution of the first-order circuits
First-order differential equation
dx(t )
ax(t ) f (t )
dt
If x(t)=xp(t) and x(t)=xc(t)
dx(t ) xp(t) : particular integral solution
ax(t ) 0, x(t ) x p (t ) xc (t ) xc(t) : complementary solution, natural response
dt
f(t)=A, constant
dx p (t ) dxc (t )
ax p (t ) A, axc (t ) 0
dt dt
Since A is constant, xp(t) must also be a constant
A
x p (t ) K1 , K1
a
dxc (t ) dt d
a, ln xc (t ) a
xc (t ) dt
ln xc (t ) at c
xc (t ) K 2e at
Hence,
x(t ) x p (t ) xc (t )
A
K 2e at
a
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General Form of the Response Equations (2/4)
• General form of the solution of first-order transient circuits
x(t ) K1 K2et
K1 : steady-state solution for t infinite
: time constant
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General Form of the Response Equations (3/4)
d (t ) (t ) VS L
di (t )
Ri (t ) VS For time t>0
C 0 dt
dt R
R
d (t ) (t ) VS VS t
For time t>0 i (t ) K 2e L Using same manner
dt RC RC R
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General Form of the Response Equations (4/4)
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Example 7.1 (1/2)
• Calculate i(t) for t>0
At t = 0-
*Capacitor is open for DC
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Example 7.1 (2/2)
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Example 7.2 (1/2)
• Find the output voltage v0(t) for t>0 *Circuit modification to Thevenin equvalent
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Example 7.2 (2/2)
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