Circuits & Schematics Amplifiers

Intrinsically capacitive transducers and other high-impedance signal sources usually require ac coupling and a buffer amplifier to condition the signal for further processing. Buffers take many forms, but most of them compromise signal quality ...

Figure 1 shows a chopped amplifier that requires only 5.5 µA supply current. Offset Voltage is 5 µV, with 0.05 µV/ C drift. A gain exceeding 10 8 affords high accuracy, even at large closed-loop gains. Figure 1. 0.05 µV/ C ...

Digitally controlled gain is an everyday analog-design element. You frequently find this element in an op-amp-based, transimpedance current-to-voltage converter. When you design digital gain control into such a converter, the usual scheme is to ...

A good manually adjusted audio gain stage is characterized by: Low noise and low distortion, A 20 kHz bandwidth, A wide gain adjustment range (e.g. 90 dB), and Logarithmic (at least pseudo-logarithmic) control characteristic to Efficiently span ...

The need for conditioning low-level ac signals in the presence of both common-mode noise and differential dc voltage prevails in many applications. In such situations, ac-coupling to instrumentation and difference amplifiers is mandatory to extract ...

Self-powered isolation amplifiers, which need no external isolated power supply, provide versatile and convenient interfaces in many applications that require galvanic isolation of the signal source. Examples of such applications include circuits ...

The advent of instrumentation amplifiers with digital gain switching offers obvious advantages, such as board-space saving, higher reliability because of fewer solder joints, and lower total cost. These valuable features stem from the fact that the ...

Piezoelectric transducers find use in NDE (nondestructive-evaluation) applications. The PVDF (polyvinylidene-fluoride) transducer has many advantages, including a wide bandwidth and high sensitivity. These transducers require high-voltage and ...

Amplification of sub-picoamp signal currents is always a design challenge, especially when gain adjustment is required that spans multiple decades. A straightforward approach to the design task would normally involve potentiometers and teraohm ...

Autozero amplifiers have almost zero drift and input-offset values of 1 to 20 µV. You can compensate for the initial voltage offset of an auto-zero amp in sensitive circuits, such as dc amplifiers and integrators, requiring the processing of ...