Communication Dept. MATLAB Lect.

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Applications Examples
Transistor Analysis

1) Write  a  MATLAB  function  M‐file  to  calculate  the  IC,  IB,  IE,  VCE,  and  the
opera on region of the circuit shown in Fig(1):

VCC

RC

RB

VBB

Fig (1) 

Solution: 

0 0 , 0, 0,

, , 1 ,

, , ,

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Program (trans.m) 
function [IB,IC,IE,VCE]=trans(Vcc,VBB,RC,RB,VBE,B,VCEsat)
IB=(VBB-VBE)/RB;
ICsat=(Vcc-VCEsat)/RC;
if IB <= 0
IB=0
IC=0
IE=0
VCE=Vcc
disp('cut off region')
elseif (B*IB)>= ICsat
IB
IC=ICsat
IE=ICsat
VCE=VCEsat
disp('saturation region')
else
IB
IC=B*IB
IE=(B+1)*IB
VCE=Vcc-(IC*RC)
disp('Active region')
end
Run results 
>> trans(20,5,1e3,10e3,0.7,100,0)
IB =
4.3000e-004
IC =
0.0200
IE =
0.0200
VCE =
0
saturation region
>> trans(20,2,1e3,10e3,0.7,100,0)
IB =
1.3000e-004
IC =
0.0130
IE =
0.0131
VCE =
7.0000
Active region
>> trans(20,0.5,1e3,10e3,0.7,100,0)
IB =
0
IC =
0
IE =
0
VCE =
20
cut off region

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Output Characteristics

2) Write a MATLAB commands to plot the Output Characteristics of the circuit
shown in Fig (1).

Solution: 

The  trans.m  function  written  in  previous  example  will  be  implemented  in  this 
program to plot the Output Characteristics when 

0.7 , 1 Ω , 500 Ω , 0.2 , 100

1 5 1  

0 1.9 0.1

Program  
clc
clear
RB=500e3;VCEsat=0.2;B=100;VBE=0.7;RC=1e3;
for VBB=1:5
Vcc=0;
for i=1:20
[IB,IC(i),IE,VCE(i)]=trans(Vcc,VBB,RC,RB,VBE,B,VCEsat);
Vcc=Vcc+0.1
end
plot(VCE,IC)
hold on
xlabel('VCE (V)')
ylabel('IC (A)')
title('Output Characteristics','FontSize',12)
axis([0 2 0 10e-4])
end
Run results 
-3
x 10 Output Characteristics
1

0.9

0.8

0.7

0.6
IC (A)

0.5

0.4

0.3

0.2

0.1

0
0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1 1.2 1.4 1.6 1.8 2
VCE (V)

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Load line and Q-point

3) Write a MATLAB commands to plot the Load line and Q-point of the circuit shown in
Fig  (1)  when 20 , 1.7 , 0.7 , 0 ,
10 Ω, C 1 Ω, 100 .

Solution: 

The  trans.m  function  written  in  previous  example  will  be  implemented  in  this 
program to plot the load line. 

Program  
clc
clear
Vcc=20;VBB=1.7;RB=10e3;B=100;RC=1e3,VCEsat=0;VBE=0.7;
VCE(1)=0;
IC(1)=(Vcc-VCEsat)/RC;
[IB,IC(2),IE,VCE(2)]=trans(Vcc,VBB,RC,RB,VBE,B,VCEsat);
IC(3)=0;
VCE(3)=Vcc;
plot(VCE,IC,'*-')
xlabel('VCE (V)')
ylabel('IC (A)')
title('Load Line','FontSize',12)
text(VCE(2),IC(2),'{\it Q-point}')
Run results 
Load Line
0.02

0.018

0.016

0.014

0.012
IC (A)

0.01 Q-point

0.008

0.006

0.004

0.002

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 20
VCE (V)

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Diode analysis

4) Write a MATLAB commands to plot the Diode Characteristics .

Solution: 

11600
1 , 300, 10  
2

0.5 0.75 

Program  
clc
clear
Is=10e-6;K=11600/2;T=300;V=-0.5;
for i=1:120
Vd(i)=V;
Id(i)=Is*(exp(K*Vd(i)/T)-1);
V=V+0.01;
end
plot(Vd,Id)
xlabel('Vd (V)')
ylabel('Id (A)')
title('Diode Characteristics','FontSize',12)
Run results 
Diode Characteristics
7

4
Id (A)

-1
-0.6 -0.4 -0.2 0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8
Vd (V)