AN7 OP-Amp Video Amplifier
AN7 OP-Amp Video Amplifier
AN7 OP-Amp Video Amplifier
Keywords: op amp, video line driver, wide bandwidth, high speed, buffer amplifier, op amps, opamps, video amplifier APPLICATION NOTE 7
Figure 1. This composite amplifier, based on a dual video-amplifier IC, provides a 40dB gain and 10MHz bandwidth while driving a 150 load. The approach taken in Figure 1 minimizes output distortion. The first amplifier, operating with no (DC)
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load, provides it's maximum voltage gain of about 660V/V. The second amplifier, drivng a 150 load, has a voltage gain of about 65. Total open-loopgain for the composite amplifiers is thus 66065, or about 92dB. In the absence of phase-compensation componenets R 1 and C 3 , however, the circuit will oscillate. With the 150 load, output swing is typically 3.3V and linearity (between -2V and 2V) is about 0.5%. R 1 and C 3 adjust the -3dB frequency to 10MHz, giving a gain-bandwidth product of 1GHz. The amplifier provides a 2V output swing with only 3% peaking near the 10MHz rolloff frequency. For comparison, a BB3554 or AD3554 operating at 40dB with no phase compensation (for maximum bandwidth) has a -3dB bandwidth of only 7MHz. Table 1. Input and output voltages. (Offset voltage not adjusted) VIN +30.000mV +20.000mV +10.000mV 0.000mV -10.000mV -20.000mV -30.000mV VOUT +2.968V +1.963V +0.960V -0.046V -1.060V -2.070V -3.059V
The table in Figure 1 gives DC performance for the closed-loop amplifier. Gain resistors R 2 and R 3 measured 99.78 and 9965, giving a theoretical gain of R 2 + R 3 / R 3 = 1000.870V/Vwhich is very close to the value of 100.825 measured for range -2V to 2V.
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