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Sunday 26 May 2013

The Catches: Voltage follower that rings

In my first year doing circuit design – I was evaluating a circuit that contains a voltage follower op-amp – something that I didn’t quite happy with is the amount of overshoot on the step input. Digging through all the information – I found out that not op-amp are suitable for being a voltage follower. And in fact – for a voltage feedback op-amp to be used as voltage follower – it will state “unity gain stable” in the datasheet.
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Lesson learnt –
There are certain amp that are not meant to be unity gain stable – mainly for fast response – read the datasheet before using them.





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