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Why is a stage biased away from mid-supply unable to deliver full output?

  • A.The load line becomes steeper and reduces the current available
  • B.One direction of swing reaches its limit first
  • C.The gain of the stage falls when the operating point moves
  • D.The device's dissipation rises and forces a reduction in drive

Answer: B

Whichever direction has less headroom clips first, so the undistorted output is set by the shorter of the two excursions. The gain hardly changes over a modest range of operating points, dissipation is a separate concern, and the load line's slope is fixed by the resistors. A limit set by the smaller of two quantities is always improved by balancing them, which is exactly what centring the operating point does. Checking the units of each quantity catches a wrong formula before the arithmetic begins.

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