[sdiy] Discrete buffer distortion

[cheater cheater]

Isn't it both ways?

D.

On Sat, Sep 26, 2009 at 7:08 PM, Aaron Lanterman
<lanterma at ece.gatech.edu> wrote:
>
> 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
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