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Design an 5mA npn current sink

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Art of Electronics 3rd ed. Exercise 2.11

You have +5V and +15V regulated supplies available in a circuit. Design a 5mA npn current sink using the +5V to bias the base. What is the output compliance?

Ic=5mA
Ve≈Vb-0.6≈4.4V
Re=Ve/Ic=4.4/0.005=880Ω

Compliance voltage:

Vc≳ Ve + 0.1V for the transistor to be in the linear region
Vc≳4.4+0.1=4.5V
Vcompliance= 15-4.5≈10.5V

This means that when Vc drops below the compilance voltage the current sink cannot work as expected.

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