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- From: kolstad@cae.wisc.edu (Joel Kolstad)
- Newsgroups: sci.electronics
- Subject: Re: Op amp configuration question
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.012546.17925@doug.cae.wisc.edu>
- Date: 5 Nov 92 07:25:46 GMT
- Article-I.D.: doug.1992Nov5.012546.17925
- References: <1d9kjtINNna1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <1992Nov05.043724.130701@zeus.calpoly.edu>
- Organization: U of Wisconsin-Madison College of Engineering
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- Hi Mike,
-
- In article <1992Nov05.043724.130701@zeus.calpoly.edu> mruddick@joule.elee.calpoly.edu (Michael Ruddick) writes:
- >Be careful...you should only have to use one op-amp for what you are doing.
- >It sounds like you want the op-amp to amplify your signal as much as
- >it can, then pass it to another one that does the same thing. Op-amps
- >don't work like that...just use a standard non-inverting op-amp configuration
- >and set your gain...if you set it too high, then the output will just switch
- >back and forth between the two supply voltage rails --> high amounts of
- >distortion!
-
- I'm not sure what the original poster's question/problem was, so I'm not
- going to comment too much on your response.
-
- However, I did want to point out that there's a very good reason (in general)
- for using two cascaded op amps (providing *x*y gain=*xy gain) rather than
- using just one (providing *xy) -- the gain bandwidth product. You can
- show mathematically, in not too long of a time, that the closed loop
- gain bandwidth product of two cascaded op amps is greater than that of
- a single one for the same gain conditions. This is one of the reasons
- that trying to make, say, x1000 amplifiers out of one op amp is a very
- difficult proposition.
-
- Maybe someone will find this useful...
-
- ---Joel Kolstad
- kolstad@cae.wisc.edu
-