BJT & FET Current Mirror

crutschow

Joined Mar 14, 2008
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Functionally it's more difficult to do accurate FET current mirrors because of the normal large manufacturing variation in their Vth voltages. The Vbe of a BJT is generally a much closer match between transistors.
 

#12

Joined Nov 30, 2010
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In addition, bjt current mirrors work well enough on a monolithic chip, but discrete transistors generally need resistors in the emitter side to get them to match better, and getting them to track with temperature change is yet another consideration.
 
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