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Paralleling Amplifiers Improves Signal-to-Noise Performance

Kevin B. Scott - Senior Strategic Marketing Engineer Jul 9th 2015
Dealing with low amplitude signals can be challenging.  In order to differentiate between the low level signal and the noise contributed by surrounding circuitry, we typically use gain to amplify the signal above the noise floor.  However, a standard amplifier configuration multiplies the input signal, the input noise, ...

Micropower Op Amp Drives 8-Channel 18-Bit Simultaneous Sampling ADC without Compromising Accuracy or Breaking the Power Budget

Guy Hoover - Applications Engineer Jun 23rd 2015
Design Note 541: Introduction The op amps used to drive 18-bit analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) typically draw as much supply current as the ADC itself, often with a maximum offset spec that is well above that of the ADC. If multiple ADC channels are required, the power dissipation from these drivers quickly rises to unacceptable ...

Paralleling Amplifiers Increases Output Drive

Apr 1st 2015
There are several circuit techniques that increase the output drive capability of an amplifier. One method uses external bipolar transistors as a push-pull circuit to provide additional drive. Another method uses two different amplifiers in a composite amplfier configuration as detailed in Application Note 21 to leverage ...

Increase Amplifier Output Drive Using a Push-Pull Amplifier Stage

Feb 17th 2015
Many portable circuits require precision measurement capability along with low power operation to minimize current and battery drain. When searching for an amplifer with these requirements, it may be relatively easy to meet the low power and precision requirements, but the drive current may not be adequate for these low power ...

Precision Op Amp Enables Fast Multiplexing at Low Power

Kris Lokere - Strategic Applications Manager Jan 23rd 2015
Introduction If you are designing a system that measures a number of analog voltages, but not all at the same time, you can reduce downstream circuitry by multiplexing the measurements into a single output signal, then serially process and digitize the original voltage levels using shared components. The benefit is that the ...