Tag: OPAMP

Michael Dunn@ edn.com discuss about current sense on the high side of power source. At their heart, the majority of DC current sense circuits start with a resistance in a supply line (though magnetic field sensing is a good alternative, especially in higher-current scenarios). One...

A new 3 MHz BiCMOS Die Shot from zeptobars.com ST TS951 - 3 MHz BiCMOS R2R OPAMP -...

LUX Meter project has been design to measure the illumination. Illumination is luminous flux falling on surface area of photo diode. This illumination converted to corresponding voltage using Op-Amp circuit. Specifications Supply 9 VDC PP3 Battery @ 20 mA Onboard Photo...

Maurizio tipped us about his latest article. In this article he talks about the different ways of transmitting video signal over large distances. He writes: Traditionally, the physical environment for transmitting video signals over long distances has been the shielded coax cable....

Ken Shirriff's blog looks inside the famous 741 OPMAP and discuss how it's made and how it's working: The 741 op amp is one of the most famous and popular ICs[1] with hundreds of millions sold since its invention in 1968 by famous IC designer Dave Fullagar. In this article, I look at...

Operational amplifiers (OPAMPs) are high performance differential amplifiers in integrated form that can be used in many different ways. A typical OPAMP has a non-inverting input, an inverting input, two dc power pins, one output pin and a few other fine-tuning pins. On the following...

The infrared (IR) is invisible radiant energy, electromagnetic radiation that we cannot see with our eyes, but we can sometimes feel on our skin as heat. The infrared light falls just outside the visible spectrum, beyond the edge of what we can see as red. Most of the thermal...

by Lyle Russell Williams: You can use three discrete transistors to build an operational amplifier with an open-loop gain greater than 1 million (Figure 1). You bias the output at approximately one-half the supply voltage using the combined voltage drops across zener diode D1, the...