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For a three stage cascade amplifier, calculate the overall noise figure when each stage has a gain of 12 DB and noise figure of 8dB. a. 12 b. 24 c. 13.55 d. 8

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c. 13.55 

As the signal passes through various stages of an amplifier, the output has the original signal and some noise that gets amplified at different stages of amplifiers. So the final noise figure of the cascaded amplifier is obtained by

FN = F1 + (F2 – 1)/ G1 + (F3 – 1)/ G1G2+……+(FN– 1)/ G1G2G3 GN 

F1, F2, F3 .. FN, G1,G2, G3…. GN are the noise figures and the gains respectively of the amplifiers at different stages. 

F1 = 12, F2 = 12, F3 = 12 

G1 = 8, G2 = 8, G3 = 8 

FN = 12 + (12- 1)/ 8+ (12- 1)/ 8 * 8 

= 12 + 11/8 + 11/64 

= 13.55



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