Amplifier First-Stage Criteria for Avoiding Slew-Rate Limiting

Garde P. Amplifier First-Stage Criteria for Avoiding Slew-Rate Limiting. J Audio Eng Soc. 1986;34(5):349-353. Available from: https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=5269

@article{Garde1986_5269,
  author = {Garde, Peter},
  title = {{Amplifier First-Stage Criteria for Avoiding Slew-Rate Limiting}},
  journal = {Journal of the Audio Engineering Society},
  volume = {34},
  number = {5},
  pages = {349--353},
  year = {1986},
  month = may,
  publisher = {Audio Engineering Society},
  url = {https://aes.org/publications/elibrary-page/?id=5269}
}

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AB  - The interrelationships which affect the design of the first stage of a feedback amplifier are examined. A simple but accurate first-stage criterion for avoiding slew-rate limiting in an audio amplifier is derived. This is compared with a pulse-amplifier design criterion, and also a bound on first-stage degeneration due to W. M. Leach. It is shown that Leach's bound is a simpler form of the pulse-amplifier criterion and is therefore useful in the design of pulse amplifiers. It is also shown that the audio-amplifier criterion gives the least stringent design requirement and demands the least first-stage degeneration, affording performance advantages in audio applications.
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