Electric Circuits and Networks, Ist Edition by Pearson

The response of drain current to gate-source voltage decreases when the device is at the triode

region due to bunching of characteristic curves in that region. This leads to a gradual clipping

of the negative half-cycle of output waveform. In the limit, when the input signal goes to a very

large value, v

ds

across the device approaches zero and v

o

(t) approaches 12 V.

Thus, clean clipping takes place in the positive half-cycle of the output at 6 V and

rounded clipping takes place in the negative half-cycle of the output at 12 V. Therefore,

the maximum positive and negative peaks at output the terminal is 6 V and 12 V, respec-

tively. The maximum peak-to-peak ...