Amplifiers
Amplifiers
BASIC AMPLIFIER CONCEPTS
Ideally, an amplifier produces an output signal with identical waveshape as the input signal, but with a larger amplitude.
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Inverting Amplifiers
Inverting amplifiers have negative voltage gain, and the output waveform is an inverted version of the input waveform.
Non-inverting Amplifiers
Non-inverting amplifiers have positive voltage gain amplify the input signals.
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1. Ideal Op-Amp and its analysis2. Practical Op-Amp and its limitations3. Application of Op-Amp
IDEAL OPERATIONAL AMPLIFIERS
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Characteristics of Ideal Op Amp
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OP-AMP IMPERFECTIONS IN THE LINEAR RANGEOF OPERATION
Real op amps have several categories of imperfections compared to ideal op amps.
Real op amps have finite input impedance, nonzero output impedance and finite open loop gain
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Bandwidth
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Idea op-amp, the bandwidth is infinity, so that signal at anyfrequency can be amplified by the amplifier.
Practical op-amp, the bandwidth is limited. That is, the gainis not uniform.
The gain at frequency higher than the fBOL is diminished graduallyat a -20dB rate of decline. The unit bandwidth product is to define how good is the frequency response of the amplifier, i. e, how wide is it bandwidth.Unity bandwidth product = Avo*fBOL
LINEAR WAVEFORM DISTORTION
If the gain of an amplifier has a different magnitude for the various frequency components of the input signal, a form of distortion known as amplitude distortion occurs. Due to bandwidth limitation.
Phase Distortion
If the phase shift of an amplifier is not proportional to frequency, phase distortion occurs.
NONLINEAR LIMITATIONS
The output voltage of a real op amp is limited to the range between certain limits that depend on the internal design of the op amp. When the output voltage tries to exceed these limits, clipping occurs.
Slew-Rate Limitation
Another nonlinear limitation of actual op-amp is that the magnitude of the rate of change of the output voltage is limited.
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