[sdiy] Discrete buffer distortion

[Aaron Lanterman]

On Sep 26, 2009, at 11:47 AM, Jerry Gray-Eskue wrote:

>
> It sounds like you are operating the transistor in the Small Signal  
> region,
> in this area of operation the output is non linear, once you hit the  
> large
> signal area the buffer should act in a close to linear fashion.
>
> This small signal area is used in the expo converters, sine wave  
> shapers and
> several distortion effects to name a few of the applications.
>
> Diodes also have a similar small signal region and can be used in a  
> very
> similar manner.

Uhm, isn't it the other way around? Behavior is assumed linear for  
small signals, but gets nonlinear for larger ones?

- Aaron