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A linear integrated circuit (linear IC) is a solid-state analog device characterized by a theoretically infinite number of possible operating states. It operates over a continuous range of input levels. In contrast, a digital IC has a finite number of discrete input and output states.
Within a certain input range, the amplification curve of a linear IC is a straight line; the input and output voltages are directly proportional. The best known, and most common, linear IC is the operational amplifier or op amp , which consists of resistors, diodes, and transistors in a conventional analog circuit. There are two inputs, called inverting and non-inverting. A signal applied to the inverting input results in a signal of opposite phase at the output. A signal applied to the non-inverting input produces a signal of identical phase at the output. A connection, through a variable resistance , between the output and the inverting input is used to control the amplification factor .
Linear ICs are employed in audio amplifiers, A/D (analog-to-digital) converters, averaging amplifiers, differentiators, DC (direct-current) amplifiers, integrators, multivibrators, oscillators, audio filters, and sweep generators. Linear ICs are available in most large electronics stores. Some devices contain several amplifiers within a single housing.

Characteristics of Operational Amplifiers

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This integrated circuit has many characteristics that approach those that are considered to be ideal.

The Ideal Operational Amplifier

With the operational amp having such characteristics that are close to ideal, it is rather easy to design and build circuits using the IC op amp. Equally important is that the op-amp circuit components can perform at theoretical levels that have been predicted. This article will cover analyzing circuits containing op amps, how to use these op-amps to design amplifiers, and important nonideal characteristics of op amps.

 Supporting Information


The op-amp has three terminals: two input terminals and one output terminal. The figure below, Fig 1.1 illustrates the symbol used for the op-amp discussed in this article. The two terminals on the left-hand side of the op-amp, 1 and 2, are the two input terminals, and on the right side, terminal 3 is the output terminal. In order to operate an amplifier, it needs to be connected to a dc power supply. Generally speaking, most integrated circuit op-amps require not one, but two dc power supplies, as Fig 1.2 illustrates. These two terminals, 4 and 5, are connected to a positive voltage source Vcc and a negative voltage source Vee, respectively. Figure 1.2 (b) shows the dc power supplies as batteries, having a common ground source. The ground source that the two dc power supplies are connected to is actually just the common terminal of the two power supplies. It is interesting that this is so because not one terminal on the op-amp package is physically connected to the ground. For simplicity in this article, the op-amp power supplies will not be illustrated.


 
Fig 1.1 Op-amp symbol 

 
Fig 1.2 Op-amp connections to the dc power supplies

Besides the five terminals discussed thus far, an op-amp may have other terminals for specific purposes. Such purposes might be for frequency compensation and negative feedback or offset nulling, which reduces small DC offsets that can be amplified.

Introducing Characteristics of the Ideal Operational Amp

Looking at the actual functions of the circuit inside the op-amp, we see that it is designed to determine the difference between voltage signals that are applied directly to the two input terminals (the difference of  v2 - v1). Once this quantity is found, it is then multiplied by a number A, and in turn, the voltage results in the term A(v2-v1). From here on out, when the voltage is referred to at the terminal, it is meant to be the voltage between that individual terminal and the ground; hence v1 is the voltage applied between terminal 1 and the ground.
An ideal op-amp shouldn't be drawing any current for the inputs; meaning, the current into terminal 1 and signal into terminal 2 are both zero. This is to say that the input impedance of an ideal op-amp is supposed to be infinite.
Focusing on the output terminal now, it should act as though it is a terminal of an ideal voltage source. Simply put, the voltage across terminal 3 and ground will always equate to A(v2 - v1), and independent of the current that may or may not be drawn from the third terminal into a load impedance.
With all of this stated, a model can be illustrated for the op-amp shown in Fig 1.3. Looking at the model, one can see that the output terminal has the same sign as v2 but opposite sign of v1. With this in mind, the input terminal is called the inverting input terminal, being denoted by a "-" sign while the input terminal 2 is called the noninverting input terminal and is denoted by a "+" sign.
As stated before, the op-amp is designed to sense a difference between voltage signals and will ignore any given signal that is common to both inputs. What this means, is that if v1 = v2 = 1 V, then the output will accordingly (ideal) be zero. This phenomenon is also known as what's called common-mode rejection. This can also be stated as zero common-mode gain, or analogously, infinite common-mode rejection. For now, we can say that the op-amp is a differential input, single-ended output amplifier, with the latter term pertaining to the fact that this op amp's output lies between the ground and terminal 3.
 
   
Figure 1.3 Circuit model of ideal op-amp

The term A, is what is known as the differential gain. It is known to be this because it is the desired gain of the op-amp when various signals are applied to the two inputs, 1 and 2. Another name that can we associated with the term is open-loop gain. This gain can be obtained when there is no feedback used in the IC op-amp. Normally, the open-loop gain tends to have an exceptionally high value; an ideal op-amp actually has an infinite open-loop gain.
One characteristic worth noting of op-amps are dc amplifiers or direct-coupled, which stands for dc or direct current since it amplifies signals with frequencies close to zero. Considering that op-amps are direct-coupled ICs, they are much more versatile which allows us to use them in many more important applications. However, direct-coupling can cause some serious problems that will be discussed later on.
Moving over to bandwidth, an ideal op-amp has gain A that will remain constant to a frequency of zero and all the way to an infinite frequency. In other words, an ideal amp can amplify signals of any frequency with an equal gain which allows them to have infinite bandwidth. Thus far, all characteristics and properties of ideal op-amps have been discussed, except one: the gain, A, of an ideal op-amp should have a value that is large and infinite, ideally speaking. However, this brings a good question: if there is a gain of an infinite value, how can the op-amp be used in any application? This can be answered rather simply because the op-amp will not be used solely in an open-loop configuration in almost every application one could think of. In the following article, I will discuss how other components will come into play by applying a feedback to complete or close the loop around the op-amp.

Summary

As of now, we have discussed how an operational amplifier is so popular due to its versatility, as well as the characteristics and functions of the ideal op-amp. To summarize, the characteristics of an ideal op-amp are as follows:
  • Infinite bandwidth due to the ideal gain inside of the op-amp
  • Infinite open-loop gain A
  • Infinite or zero common-mode gain
  • Input impedance of an infinite value
  • Output impedance of zero
You should now know what an op-amp is used for as well as what to look for in an ideal op-amp. In a forthcoming article, we will pick up where we left off; we will introduce and explain the two different types of voltage gain as well as the inverting configuration of an op-amp that is used for inverting a signal input to have an inverted output gain. We will also go further into the closed-loop gain and how op-amps are not used alone rather with components.


 
          
 

     Q  .  I  Operational Amplifier Basics

As well as resistors and capacitors, Operational Amplifiers, or Op-amps as they are more commonly called, are one of the basic building blocks of Analogue Electronic Circuits.

Operational amplifiers are linear devices that have all the properties required for nearly ideal DC amplification and are therefore used extensively in signal conditioning, filtering or to perform mathematical operations such as add, subtract, integration and differentiation.
An Operational Amplifier, or op-amp for short, is fundamentally a voltage amplifying device designed to be used with external feedback components such as resistors and capacitors between its output and input terminals. These feedback components determine the resulting function or “operation” of the amplifier and by virtue of the different feedback configurations whether resistive, capacitive or both, the amplifier can perform a variety of different operations, giving rise to its name of “Operational Amplifier”.
An Operational Amplifier is basically a three-terminal device which consists of two high impedance inputs, one called the Inverting Input, marked with a negative or “minus” sign, (  ) and the other one called the Non-inverting Input, marked with a positive or “plus” sign ( + ).
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The third terminal represents the operational amplifiers output port which can both sink and source either a voltage or a current. In a linear operational amplifier, the output signal is the amplification factor, known as the amplifiers gain ( A ) multiplied by the value of the input signal and depending on the nature of these input and output signals, there can be four different classifications of operational amplifier gain.
  • Voltage  – Voltage “in” and Voltage “out”
  • Current  – Current “in” and Current “out”
  • Transconductance  – Voltage “in” and Current “out”
  • Transresistance  – Current “in” and Voltage “out”
Since most of the circuits dealing with operational amplifiers are voltage amplifiers, we will limit the tutorials in this section to voltage amplifiers only, (Vin and Vout).
The output voltage signal from an Operational Amplifier is the difference between the signals being applied to its two individual inputs. In other words, an op-amps output signal is the difference between the two input signals as the input stage of an Operational Amplifier is in fact a differential amplifier as shown below.

Differential Amplifier

The circuit below shows a generalized form of a differential amplifier with two inputs marked V1 and V2. The two identical transistors TR1 and TR2 are both biased at the same operating point with their emitters connected together and returned to the common rail, -Vee by way of resistor Re.
operational amplifier basics the differential input
Differential Amplifier
The circuit operates from a dual supply +Vcc and -Vee which ensures a constant supply. The voltage that appears at the output, Vout of the amplifier is the difference between the two input signals as the two base inputs are in anti-phase with each other.
So as the forward bias of transistor, TR1 is increased, the forward bias of transistor TR2 is reduced and vice versa. Then if the two transistors are perfectly matched, the current flowing through the common emitter resistor, Re will remain constant.
Like the input signal, the output signal is also balanced and since the collector voltages either swing in opposite directions (anti-phase) or in the same direction (in-phase) the output voltage signal, taken from between the two collectors is, assuming a perfectly balanced circuit the zero difference between the two collector voltages.
This is known as the Common Mode of Operation with the common mode gain of the amplifier being the output gain when the input is zero.
Operational Amplifiers also have one output (although there are ones with an additional differential output) of low impedance that is referenced to a common ground terminal and it should ignore any common mode signals that is, if an identical signal is applied to both the inverting and non-inverting inputs there should no change to the output.
However, in real amplifiers there is always some variation and the ratio of the change to the output voltage with regards to the change in the common mode input voltage is called the Common Mode Rejection Ratio or CMRR.
Operational Amplifiers on their own have a very high open loop DC gain and by applying some form of Negative Feedback we can produce an operational amplifier circuit that has a very precise gain characteristic that is dependant only on the feedback used. Note that the term “open loop” means that there are no feedback components used around the amplifier so the feedback path or loop is open.
An operational amplifier only responds to the difference between the voltages on its two input terminals, known commonly as the “Differential Input Voltage” and not to their common potential. Then if the same voltage potential is applied to both terminals the resultant output will be zero. An Operational Amplifiers gain is commonly known as the Open Loop Differential Gain, and is given the symbol (Ao).
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Equivalent Circuit of an Ideal Operational Amplifier

ideal operational amplifier

Op-amp Parameter and Idealised Characteristic

  • Open Loop Gain, (Avo)

    • Infinite – The main function of an operational amplifier is to amplify the input signal and the more open loop gain it has the better. Open-loop gain is the gain of the op-amp without positive or negative feedback and for such an amplifier the gain will be infinite but typical real values range from about 20,000 to 200,000.
  • Input impedance, (Zin)

    • Infinite – Input impedance is the ratio of input voltage to input current and is assumed to be infinite to prevent any current flowing from the source supply into the amplifiers input circuitry ( Iin = 0 ). Real op-amps have input leakage currents from a few pico-amps to a few milli-amps.
  • Output impedance, (Zout)

    • Zero – The output impedance of the ideal operational amplifier is assumed to be zero acting as a perfect internal voltage source with no internal resistance so that it can supply as much current as necessary to the load. This internal resistance is effectively in series with the load thereby reducing the output voltage available to the load. Real op-amps have output impedances in the 100-20kΩ range.
  • Bandwidth, (BW)

    • Infinite – An ideal operational amplifier has an infinite frequency response and can amplify any frequency signal from DC to the highest AC frequencies so it is therefore assumed to have an infinite bandwidth. With real op-amps, the bandwidth is limited by the Gain-Bandwidth product (GB), which is equal to the frequency where the amplifiers gain becomes unity.
  • Offset Voltage, (Vio)

    • Zero – The amplifiers output will be zero when the voltage difference between the inverting and the non-inverting inputs is zero, the same or when both inputs are grounded. Real op-amps have some amount of output offset voltage.
From these “idealized” characteristics above, we can see that the input resistance is infinite, so no current flows into either input terminal (the “current rule”) and that the differential input offset voltage is zero (the “voltage rule”). It is important to remember these two properties as they will help us understand the workings of the Operational Amplifier with regards to the analysis and design of op-amp circuits.
However, real Operational Amplifiers such as the commonly available uA741, for example do not have infinite gain or bandwidth but have a typical “Open Loop Gain” which is defined as the amplifiers output amplification without any external feedback signals connected to it and for a typical operational amplifier is about 100dB at DC (zero Hz). This output gain decreases linearly with frequency down to “Unity Gain” or 1, at about 1MHz and this is shown in the following open loop gain response curve.

Open-loop Frequency Response Curve

operational amplifier frequency response
From this frequency response curve we can see that the product of the gain against frequency is constant at any point along the curve. Also that the unity gain (0dB) frequency also determines the gain of the amplifier at any point along the curve. This constant is generally known as the Gain Bandwidth Product or GBP. Therefore:
GBP = Gain x Bandwidth = A x BW
For example, from the graph above the gain of the amplifier at 100kHz is given as 20dB or 10, then the gain bandwidth product is calculated as:
GBP = A x BW = 10 x 100,000Hz = 1,000,000.
Similarly, the operational amplifiers gain at 1kHz = 60dB or 1000, therefore the GBP is given as:
GBP = A x BW = 1,000 x 1,000Hz = 1,000,000. The same!.
The Voltage Gain (AV) of the operational amplifier can be found using the following formula:
op-amp voltage gain
and in Decibels or (dB) is given as:
op-amp gain in decibels, dB

An Operational Amplifiers Bandwidth

The operational amplifiers bandwidth is the frequency range over which the voltage gain of the amplifier is above 70.7% or -3dB (where 0dB is the maximum) of its maximum output value as shown below.
op-amp frequency response curve
Here we have used the 40dB line as an example. The -3dB or 70.7% of Vmax down point from the frequency response curve is given as 37dB. Taking a line across until it intersects with the main GBP curve gives us a frequency point just above the 10kHz line at about 12 to 15kHz. We can now calculate this more accurately as we already know the GBP of the amplifier, in this particular case 1MHz.

Operational Amplifier Example No1.

Using the formula 20 log (A), we can calculate the bandwidth of the amplifier as:
37 = 20 log A   therefore, A = anti-log (37 ÷ 20) = 70.8
GBP ÷ A = Bandwidth,  therefore, 1,000,000 ÷ 70.8 = 14,124Hz, or 14kHz
Then the bandwidth of the amplifier at a gain of 40dB is given as 14kHz as previously predicted from the graph.

Operational Amplifier Example No2.

If the gain of the operational amplifier was reduced by half to say 20dB in the above frequency response curve, the -3dB point would now be at 17dB. This would then give the operational amplifier an overall gain of 7.08, therefore A = 7.08.
If we use the same formula as above, this new gain would give us a bandwidth of approximately 141.2kHz, ten times more than the frequency given at the 40dB point. It can therefore be seen that by reducing the overall “open loop gain” of an operational amplifier its bandwidth is increased and visa versa.
In other words, an operational amplifiers bandwidth is inversely proportional to its gain, ( A 1/∝ BW ). Also, this -3dB corner frequency point is generally known as the “half power point”, as the output power of the amplifier is at half its maximum value as shown:
half power at corner frequency

Operational Amplifiers Summary

We know now that an Operational amplifiers is a very high gain DC differential amplifier that uses one or more external feedback networks to control its response and characteristics. We can connect external resistors or capacitors to the op-amp in a number of different ways to form basic “building Block” circuits such as, Inverting, Non-Inverting, Voltage Follower, Summing, Differential, Integrator and Differentiator type amplifiers.
operational amplifier symbol
Op-amp Symbol
An “ideal” or perfect operational amplifier is a device with certain special characteristics such as infinite open-loop gain Ao, infinite input resistance Rin, zero output resistance Rout, infinite bandwidth 0 to and zero offset (the output is exactly zero when the input is zero).
There are a very large number of operational amplifier IC’s available to suit every possible application from standard bipolar, precision, high-speed, low-noise, high-voltage, etc, in either standard configuration or with internal Junction FET transistors.
Operational amplifiers are available in IC packages of either single, dual or quad op-amps within one single device. The most commonly available and used of all operational amplifiers in basic electronic kits and projects is the industry standard μA-741.
741 operational amplifier
In the next tutorial about Operational Amplifiers, we will use negative feedback connected around the op-amp to produce a standard closed-loop amplifier circuit called an Inverting Amplifier circuit that produces an output signal which is 180o “out-of-phase” with the input.


                       

                                 Q  .  II  Inverting Operational Amplifier

We saw in the last tutorial that the Open Loop Gain, ( Avo ) of an operational amplifier can be very high, as much as 1,000,000 (120dB) or more.

However, this very high gain is of no real use to us as it makes the amplifier both unstable and hard to control as the smallest of input signals, just a few micro-volts, (μV) would be enough to cause the output voltage to saturate and swing towards one or the other of the voltage supply rails losing complete control of the output.
As the open loop DC gain of an operational amplifier is extremely high we can therefore afford to lose some of this high gain by connecting a suitable resistor across the amplifier from the output terminal back to the inverting input terminal to both reduce and control the overall gain of the amplifier. This then produces and effect known commonly as Negative Feedback, and thus produces a very stable Operational Amplifier based system.
Negative Feedback is the process of “feeding back” a fraction of the output signal back to the input, but to make the feedback negative, we must feed it back to the negative or “inverting input” terminal of the op-amp using an external Feedback Resistor called . This feedback connection between the output and the inverting input terminal forces the differential input voltage towards zero.
This effect produces a closed loop circuit to the amplifier resulting in the gain of the amplifier now being called its Closed-loop Gain. Then a closed-loop inverting amplifier uses negative feedback to accurately control the overall gain of the amplifier, but at a cost in the reduction of the amplifiers gain.
This negative feedback results in the inverting input terminal having a different signal on it than the actual input voltage as it will be the sum of the input voltage plus the negative feedback voltage giving it the label or term of a Summing Point. We must therefore separate the real input signal from the inverting input by using an Input Resistor, Rin.
As we are not using the positive non-inverting input this is connected to a common ground or zero voltage terminal as shown below, but the effect of this closed loop feedback circuit results in the voltage potential at the inverting input being equal to that at the non-inverting input producing a Virtual Earth summing point because it will be at the same potential as the grounded reference input. In other words, the op-amp becomes a “differential amplifier”.

Inverting Operational Amplifier Configuration

inverting operational amplifier
In this Inverting Amplifier circuit the operational amplifier is connected with feedback to produce a closed loop operation. When dealing with operational amplifiers there are two very important rules to remember about inverting amplifiers, these are: “No current flows into the input terminal” and that “V1 always equals V2”. However, in real world op-amp circuits both of these rules are slightly broken.
This is because the junction of the input and feedback signal ( X ) is at the same potential as the positive ( + ) input which is at zero volts or ground then, the junction is a “Virtual Earth”. Because of this virtual earth node the input resistance of the amplifier is equal to the value of the input resistor, Rin and the closed loop gain of the inverting amplifier can be set by the ratio of the two external resistors.
We said above that there are two very important rules to remember about Inverting Amplifiers or any operational amplifier for that matter and these are.
  • No Current Flows into the Input Terminals
  • The Differential Input Voltage is Zero as V1 = V2 = 0 (Virtual Earth)
Then by using these two rules we can derive the equation for calculating the closed-loop gain of an inverting amplifier, using first principles.
Current ( i ) flows through the resistor network as shown.
resistor feedback circuit
inverting op-amp gain formula
Then, the Closed-Loop Voltage Gain of an Inverting Amplifier is given as.
inverting operational amplifier gain equation
and this can be transposed to give Vout as:
inverting operational amplifier gain
op-amp linear output
Linear Output
The negative sign in the equation indicates an inversion of the output signal with respect to the input as it is 180o out of phase. This is due to the feedback being negative in value.
The equation for the output voltage Vout also shows that the circuit is linear in nature for a fixed amplifier gain as Vout = Vin x Gain. This property can be very useful for converting a smaller sensor signal to a much larger voltage.
Another useful application of an inverting amplifier is that of a “transresistance amplifier” circuit. A Transresistance Amplifier also known as a “transimpedance amplifier”, is basically a current-to-voltage converter (Current “in” and Voltage “out”). They can be used in low-power applications to convert a very small current generated by a photo-diode or photo-detecting device etc, into a usable output voltage which is proportional to the input current as shown.

Transresistance Amplifier Circuit

trans-resistance operational amplifier
The simple light-activated circuit above, converts a current generated by the photo-diode into a voltage. The feedback resistor sets the operating voltage point at the inverting input and controls the amount of output. The output voltage is given as Vout = Is x Rƒ. Therefore, the output voltage is proportional to the amount of input current generated by the photo-diode.

Inverting Op-amp Example No1

Find the closed loop gain of the following inverting amplifier circuit.
inverting op-amp circuit
Using the previously found formula for the gain of the circuit
inverting op-amp gain
we can now substitute the values of the resistors in the circuit as follows,
Rin = 10kΩ  and  Rƒ = 100kΩ.
and the gain of the circuit is calculated as: -Rƒ/Rin = 100k/10k = -10.
Therefore, the closed loop gain of the inverting amplifier circuit above is given -10 or 20dB (20log(10)).

Inverting Op-amp Example No2

The gain of the original circuit is to be increased to 40 (32dB), find the new values of the resistors required.
Assume that the input resistor is to remain at the same value of 10KΩ, then by re-arranging the closed loop voltage gain formula we can find the new value required for the feedback resistor .
   Gain = Rƒ/Rin
therefore,   Rƒ = Gain x Rin
  Rƒ = 40 x 10,000
  Rƒ = 400,000 or 400KΩ
The new values of resistors required for the circuit to have a gain of 40 would be,
 Rin = 10KΩ  and  Rƒ = 400KΩ.
The formula could also be rearranged to give a new value of Rin, keeping the same value of .
One final point to note about the Inverting Amplifier configuration for an operational amplifier, if the two resistors are of equal value, Rin = Rƒ  then the gain of the amplifier will be -1 producing a complementary form of the input voltage at its output as Vout = -Vin. This type of inverting amplifier configuration is generally called a Unity Gain Inverter of simply an Inverting Buffer.
In the next tutorial about Operational Amplifiers, we will analyse the complement of the Inverting Amplifier operational amplifier circuit called the Non-inverting Amplifier that produces an output signal which is “in-phase” with the input.


                           

                              Q  .  III  Non-inverting Operational Amplifier 

The second basic configuration of an operational amplifier circuit is that of a Non-inverting Operational Amplifier design.

In this configuration, the input voltage signal, ( Vin ) is applied directly to the non-inverting ( + ) input terminal which means that the output gain of the amplifier becomes “Positive” in value in contrast to the “Inverting Amplifier” circuit we saw in the last tutorial whose output gain is negative in value. The result of this is that the output signal is “in-phase” with the input signal.
Feedback control of the non-inverting operational amplifier is achieved by applying a small part of the output voltage signal back to the inverting (  ) input terminal via a Rƒ – R2 voltage divider network, again producing negative feedback. This closed-loop configuration produces a non-inverting amplifier circuit with very good stability, a very high input impedance, Rin approaching infinity, as no current flows into the positive input terminal, (ideal conditions) and a low output impedance, Rout as shown below.

Non-inverting Operational Amplifier Configuration

non-inverting operational amplifier
In the previous Inverting Amplifier tutorial, we said that for an ideal op-amp “No current flows into the input terminal” of the amplifier and that “V1 always equals V2”. This was because the junction of the input and feedback signal ( V1 ) are at the same potential.
In other words the junction is a “virtual earth” summing point. Because of this virtual earth node the resistors, and R2 form a simple potential divider network across the non-inverting amplifier with the voltage gain of the circuit being determined by the ratios of R2 and as shown below.

Equivalent Potential Divider Network

non-inverting amplifier potential divider
Then using the formula to calculate the output voltage of a potential divider network, we can calculate the closed-loop voltage gain ( A V ) of the Non-inverting Amplifier as follows:
non-inverting op-amp gain
Then the closed loop voltage gain of a Non-inverting Operational Amplifier will be given as:
non-inverting operational amplifier gain
We can see from the equation above, that the overall closed-loop gain of a non-inverting amplifier will always be greater but never less than one (unity), it is positive in nature and is determined by the ratio of the values of and R2.
If the value of the feedback resistor is zero, the gain of the amplifier will be exactly equal to one (unity). If resistor R2 is zero the gain will approach infinity, but in practice it will be limited to the operational amplifiers open-loop differential gain, ( Ao ).
We can easily convert an inverting operational amplifier configuration into a non-inverting amplifier configuration by simply changing the input connections as shown.
non-inverting op-amp configuration

Voltage Follower (Unity Gain Buffer)

If we made the feedback resistor, equal to zero, (Rƒ = 0), and resistor R2 equal to infinity, (R2 = ), then the circuit would have a fixed gain of “1” as all the output voltage would be present on the inverting input terminal (negative feedback). This would then produce a special type of the non-inverting amplifier circuit called a Voltage Follower or also called a “unity gain buffer”.
As the input signal is connected directly to the non-inverting input of the amplifier the output signal is not inverted resulting in the output voltage being equal to the input voltage, Vout = Vin. This then makes the voltage follower circuit ideal as a Unity Gain Buffer circuit because of its isolation properties.
The advantage of the unity gain voltage follower is that it can be used when impedance matching or circuit isolation is more important than amplification as it maintains the signal voltage. The input impedance of the voltage follower circuit is very high, typically above 1MΩ as it is equal to that of the operational amplifiers input resistance times its gain ( Rin x Ao ). Also its output impedance is very low since an ideal op-amp condition is assumed.

Non-inverting Voltage Follower

non-inverting voltage follower
In this non-inverting circuit configuration, the input impedance Rin has increased to infinity and the feedback impedance reduced to zero. The output is connected directly back to the negative inverting input so the feedback is 100% and Vin is exactly equal to Vout giving it a fixed gain of 1 or unity. As the input voltage Vin is applied to the non-inverting input the gain of the amplifier is given as:
unity gain buffer
Since no current flows into the non-inverting input terminal the input impedance is infinite (ideal op-amp) and also no current flows through the feedback loop so any value of resistance may be placed in the feedback loop without affecting the characteristics of the circuit as no voltage is dissipated across it, zero current flows, zero voltage drop, zero power loss.
Since the input current is zero giving zero input power, the voltage follower can provide a large power gain. However in most real unity gain buffer circuits a low value (typically 1kΩ) resistor is required to reduce any offset input leakage currents, and also if the operational amplifier is of a current feedback type.
The voltage follower or unity gain buffer is a special and very useful type of Non-inverting amplifier circuit that is commonly used in electronics to isolated circuits from each other especially in High-order state variable or Sallen-Key type active filters to separate one filter stage from the other. Typical digital buffer IC’s available are the 74LS125 Quad 3-state buffer or the more common 74LS244 Octal buffer.
One final thought, the closed loop voltage gain of a voltage follower circuit is “1” or Unity. The open loop voltage gain of an operational amplifier with no feedback is Infinite. Then by carefully selecting the feedback components we can control the amount of gain produced by a non-inverting operational amplifier anywhere from one to infinity.
Thus far we have analysed an inverting and non-inverting amplifier circuit that has just one input signal, Vin. In the next tutorial about Operational Amplifiers, we will examine the effect of the output voltage, Vout by connecting more inputs to the amplifier. This then produces another common type of operational amplifier circuit called a Summing Amplifier which can be used to “add” together the voltages present on its inputs. 


                                        Q  .  IIII  The Summing Amplifier

               

The Summing Amplifier is another type of operational amplifier circuit configuration that is used to combine the voltages present on two or more inputs into a single output voltage

We saw previously in the inverting operational amplifier that the inverting amplifier has a single input voltage, (Vin) applied to the inverting input terminal. If we add more input resistors to the input, each equal in value to the original input resistor, (Rin) we end up with another operational amplifier circuit called a Summing Amplifier, “summing inverter” or even a “voltage adder” circuit as shown below.

Summing Amplifier Circuit

summing amplifier
In this simple summing amplifier circuit, the output voltage, ( Vout ) now becomes proportional to the sum of the input voltages, V1, V2, V3, etc. Then we can modify the original equation for the inverting amplifier to take account of these new inputs thus:
summing amplifier formula
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However, if all the input impedances, ( Rin ) are equal in value, we can simplify the above equation to give an output voltage of:

Summing Amplifier Equation

summing amplifier equation
We now have an operational amplifier circuit that will amplify each individual input voltage and produce an output voltage signal that is proportional to the algebraic “SUM” of the three individual input voltages V1, V2 and V3. We can also add more inputs if required as each individual input “see’s” their respective resistance, Rin as the only input impedance.
This is because the input signals are effectively isolated from each other by the “virtual earth” node at the inverting input of the op-amp. A direct voltage addition can also be obtained when all the resistances are of equal value and is equal to Rin.
Note that when the summing point is connected to the inverting input of the op-amp the circuit will produce the negative sum of any number of input voltages. Likewise, when the summing point is connected to the non-inverting input of the op-amp, it will produce the positive sum of the input voltages.
A Scaling Summing Amplifier can be made if the individual input resistors are “NOT” equal. Then the equation would have to be modified to:
scaling summing amplifier equation
To make the math’s a little easier, we can rearrange the above formula to make the feedback resistor RF the subject of the equation giving the output voltage as:
summing amplifier feedback equation
This allows the output voltage to be easily calculated if more input resistors are connected to the amplifiers inverting input terminal. The input impedance of each individual channel is the value of their respective input resistors, ie, R1, R2, R3 … etc.
Sometimes we need a summing circuit to just add together two or more voltage signals without any amplification. By putting all of the resistances of the circuit above to the same value R, the op-amp will have a voltage gain of unity and an output voltage equal to the direct sum of all the input voltages as shown:
unity gain summing amplifier
The Summing Amplifier is a very flexible circuit indeed, enabling us to effectively “Add” or “Sum” (hence its name) together several individual input signals. If the inputs resistors, R1, R2, R3 etc, are all equal a “unity gain inverting adder” will be made. However, if the input resistors are of different values a “scaling summing amplifier” is produced which will output a weighted sum of the input signals.

Summing Amplifier Example No1

Find the output voltage of the following Summing Amplifier circuit.

Summing Amplifier

summing op-amp circuit
Using the previously found formula for the gain of the circuit
inverting op-amp gain
We can now substitute the values of the resistors in the circuit as follows,
summing amplifier input gain
We know that the output voltage is the sum of the two amplified input signals and is calculated as:
summing amplifier output voltage
Then the output voltage of the Summing Amplifier circuit above is given as -45 mV and is negative as its an inverting amplifier.

Summing Amplifier Applications

So what can we use summing amplifiers for?. If the input resistances of a summing amplifier are connected to potentiometers the individual input signals can be mixed together by varying amounts.
For example, measuring temperature, you could add a negative offset voltage to make the output voltage or display read “0” at the freezing point or produce an audio mixer for adding or mixing together individual waveforms (sounds) from different source channels (vocals, instruments, etc) before sending them combined to an audio amplifier.

Summing Amplifier Audio Mixer

summing amplifier audio mixer circuit
Another useful application of a Summing Amplifier is as a weighted sum digital-to-analogue converter. If the input resistors, Rin of the summing amplifier double in value for each input, for example, 1kΩ, 2kΩ, 4kΩ, 8kΩ, 16kΩ, etc, then a digital logical voltage, either a logic level “0” or a logic level “1” on these inputs will produce an output which is the weighted sum of the digital inputs. Consider the circuit below.

Digital to Analogue Converter

digital to analogue converter
Of course this is a simple example. In this DAC summing amplifier circuit, the number of individual bits that make up the input data word, and in this example 4-bits, will ultimately determine the output step voltage as a percentage of the full-scale analogue output voltage.
Also, the accuracy of this full-scale analogue output depends on voltage levels of the input bits being consistently 0V for “0” and consistently 5V for “1” as well as the accuracy of the resistance values used for the input resistors, Rin.
Fortunately to overcome these errors, at least on our part, commercially available Digital-to Analogue and Analogue-to Digital devices are readily available with highly accurate resistor ladder networks already built-in.
In the next tutorial about operational amplifiers, we will examine the effect of the output voltage, Vout when a signal voltage is connected to the inverting input and the non-inverting input at the same time to produce another common type of operational amplifier circuit called a Differential Amplifier which can be used to “subtract” the voltages present on its inputs. 

                                       Q  .  IIIII  The Differential Amplifier  

                          

Thus far we have used only one of the operational amplifiers inputs to connect to the amplifier, using either the “inverting” or the “non-inverting” input terminal to amplify a single input signal with the other input being connected to ground.

But as a standard operational amplifier has two inputs, inverting and no-inverting, we can also connect signals to both of these inputs at the same time producing another common type of operational amplifier circuit called a Differential Amplifier.
Basically, as we saw in the first tutorial about operational amplifiers, all op-amps are “Differential Amplifiers” due to their input configuration. But by connecting one voltage signal onto one input terminal and another voltage signal onto the other input terminal the resultant output voltage will be proportional to the “Difference” between the two input voltage signals of V1 and V2.
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Then differential amplifiers amplify the difference between two voltages making this type of operational amplifier circuit a Subtractor unlike a summing amplifier which adds or sums together the input voltages. This type of operational amplifier circuit is commonly known as a Differential Amplifier configuration and is shown below:

Differential Amplifier

differential amplifier circuit
By connecting each input in turn to 0v ground we can use superposition to solve for the output voltage Vout. Then the transfer function for a Differential Amplifier circuit is given as:
differential amplifier transfer function
When resistors, R1 = R2 and R3 = R4 the above transfer function for the differential amplifier can be simplified to the following expression:

Differential Amplifier Equation

differential amplifier equation
If all the resistors are all of the same ohmic value, that is: R1 = R2 = R3 = R4 then the circuit will become a Unity Gain Differential Amplifier and the voltage gain of the amplifier will be exactly one or unity. Then the output expression would simply be Vout = V2 – V1. Also note that if input V1 is higher than input V2 the output voltage sum will be negative, and if V2 is higher than V1, the output voltage sum will be positive.
The Differential Amplifier circuit is a very useful op-amp circuit and by adding more resistors in parallel with the input resistors R1 and R3, the resultant circuit can be made to either “Add” or “Subtract” the voltages applied to their respective inputs. One of the most common ways of doing this is to connect a “Resistive Bridge” commonly called a Wheatstone Bridge to the input of the amplifier as shown below.

Wheatstone Bridge Differential Amplifier

wheatstone bridge differential amplifier
The standard Differential Amplifier circuit now becomes a differential voltage comparator by “Comparing” one input voltage to the other. For example, by connecting one input to a fixed voltage reference set up on one leg of the resistive bridge network and the other to either a “Thermistor” or a “Light Dependant Resistor” the amplifier circuit can be used to detect either low or high levels of temperature or light as the output voltage becomes a linear function of the changes in the active leg of the resistive bridge and this is demonstrated below.

Light Activated Differential Amplifier

light activated differential amplifier
Here the circuit above acts as a light-activated switch which turns the output relay either “ON” or “OFF” as the light level detected by the LDR resistor exceeds or falls below some pre-set value. A fixed voltage reference is applied to the non-inverting input terminal of the op-amp via the R1 – R2 voltage divider network.
The voltage value at V1 sets the op-amps trip point with a feed back potentiometer, VR2 used to set the switching hysteresis. That is the difference between the light level for “ON” and the light level for “OFF”.
The second leg of the differential amplifier consists of a standard light dependant resistor, also known as a LDR, photoresistive sensor that changes its resistive value (hence its name) with the amount of light on its cell as their resistive value is a function of illumination.
The LDR can be any standard type of cadmium-sulphide (cdS) photoconductive cell such as the common NORP12 that has a resistive range of between about 500Ω in sunlight to about 20kΩ’s or more in the dark.
The NORP12 photoconductive cell has a spectral response similar to that of the human eye making it ideal for use in lighting control type applications. The photocell resistance is proportional to the light level and falls with increasing light intensity so therefore the voltage level at V2 will also change above or below the switching point which can be determined by the position of VR1.
Then by adjusting the light level trip or set position using potentiometer VR1 and the switching hysteresis using potentiometer, VR2 an precision light-sensitive switch can be made. Depending upon the application, the output from the op-amp can switch the load directly, or use a transistor switch to control a relay or the lamps themselves.
It is also possible to detect temperature using this type of simple circuit configuration by replacing the light dependant resistor with a thermistor. By interchanging the positions of VR1 and the LDR, the circuit can be used to detect either light or dark, or heat or cold using a thermistor.
One major limitation of this type of amplifier design is that its input impedances are lower compared to that of other operational amplifier configurations, for example, a non-inverting (single-ended input) amplifier.
Each input voltage source has to drive current through an input resistance, which has less overall impedance than that of the op-amps input alone. This may be good for a low impedance source such as the bridge circuit above, but not so good for a high impedance source.
One way to overcome this problem is to add a Unity Gain Buffer Amplifier such as the voltage follower seen in the previous tutorial to each input resistor. This then gives us a differential amplifier circuit with very high input impedance and low output impedance as it consists of two non-inverting buffers and one differential amplifier. This then forms the basis for most “Instrumentation Amplifiers”.

Instrumentation Amplifier

Instrumentation Amplifiers (in-amps) are very high gain differential amplifiers which have a high input impedance and a single ended output. Instrumentation amplifiers are mainly used to amplify very small differential signals from strain gauges, thermocouples or current sensing devices in motor control systems.
Unlike standard operational amplifiers in which their closed-loop gain is determined by an external resistive feedback connected between their output terminal and one input terminal, either positive or negative, “instrumentation amplifiers” have an internal feedback resistor that is effectively isolated from its input terminals as the input signal is applied across two differential inputs, V1 and V2.
The instrumentation amplifier also has a very good common mode rejection ratio, CMRR (zero output when V1 = V2) well in excess of 100dB at DC. A typical example of a three op-amp instrumentation amplifier with a high input impedance ( Zin ) is given below:

High Input Impedance Instrumentation Amplifier

instrumentation amplifier
The two non-inverting amplifiers form a differential input stage acting as buffer amplifiers with a gain of 1 + 2R2/R1 for differential input signals and unity gain for common mode input signals. Since amplifiers A1 and A2 are closed loop negative feedback amplifiers, we can expect the voltage at Va to be equal to the input voltage V1. Likewise, the voltage at Vb to be equal to the value at V2.
As the op-amps take no current at their input terminals (virtual earth), the same current must flow through the three resistor network of R2, R1 and R2 connected across the op-amp outputs. This means then that the voltage on the upper end of R1 will be equal to V1 and the voltage at the lower end of R1 to be equal to V2.
This produces a voltage drop across resistor R1 which is equal to the voltage difference between inputs V1 and V2, the differential input voltage, because the voltage at the summing junction of each amplifier, Va and Vb is equal to the voltage applied to its positive inputs.
However, if a common-mode voltage is applied to the amplifiers inputs, the voltages on each side of R1 will be equal, and no current will flow through this resistor. Since no current flows through R1 (nor, therefore, through both R2 resistors, amplifiers A1 and A2 will operate as unity-gain followers (buffers). Since the input voltage at the outputs of amplifiers A1 and A2 appears differentially across the three resistor network, the differential gain of the circuit can be varied by just changing the value of R1.
The voltage output from the differential op-amp A3 acting as a subtractor, is simply the difference between its two inputs ( V2V1 ) and which is amplified by the gain of A3 which may be one, unity, (assuming that R3 = R4). Then we have a general expression for overall voltage gain of the instrumentation amplifier circuit as:

Instrumentation Amplifier Equation

instrumentation amplifier equation
In the next tutorial about Operational Amplifiers, we will examine the effect of the output voltage, Vout when the feedback resistor is replaced with a frequency dependant reactance in the form of a capacitance. The addition of this feedback capacitance produces a non-linear operational amplifier circuit called an Integrating Amplifier  

                                            Q  .  IIIIIII  The Integrator Amplifier 

           

In the previous tutorials we have seen circuits which show how an operational amplifier can be used as part of a positive or negative feedback amplifier or as an adder or subtractor type circuit using just pure resistances in both the input and the feedback loop.

But what if we were to change the purely resistive (  ) feedback element of an inverting amplifier to that of a frequency dependant impedance, ( Z ) type complex element, such as a Capacitor, C. What would be the effect on the op-amps output voltage over its frequency range.
By replacing this feedback resistance with a capacitor we now have an RC Network connected across the operational amplifiers feedback path producing another type of operational amplifier circuit commonly called an Op-amp Integrator circuit as shown below.
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Op-amp Integrator Circuit

op-amp integrator amplifier circuit
As its name implies, the Op-amp Integrator is an operational amplifier circuit that performs the mathematical operation of Integration, that is we can cause the output to respond to changes in the input voltage over time as the op-amp integrator produces an output voltage which is proportional to the integral of the input voltage.
In other words the magnitude of the output signal is determined by the length of time a voltage is present at its input as the current through the feedback loop charges or discharges the capacitor as the required negative feedback occurs through the capacitor.
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When a step voltage, Vin is firstly applied to the input of an integrating amplifier, the uncharged capacitor C has very little resistance and acts a bit like a short circuit allowing maximum current to flow via the input resistor, Rin as potential difference exists between the two plates. No current flows into the amplifiers input and point X is a virtual earth resulting in zero output. As the impedance of the capacitor at this point is very low, the gain ratio of Xc/Rin is also very small giving an overall voltage gain of less than one, ( voltage follower circuit ).
As the feedback capacitor, C begins to charge up due to the influence of the input voltage, its impedance Xc slowly increase in proportion to its rate of charge. The capacitor charges up at a rate determined by the RC time constant, ( τ ) of the series RC network. Negative feedback forces the op-amp to produce an output voltage that maintains a virtual earth at the op-amp’s inverting input.
Since the capacitor is connected between the op-amp’s inverting input (which is at earth potential) and the op-amp’s output (which is negative), the potential voltage, Vc developed across the capacitor slowly increases causing the charging current to decrease as the impedance of the capacitor increases. This results in the ratio of Xc/Rin increasing producing a linearly increasing ramp output voltage that continues to increase until the capacitor is fully charged.
At this point the capacitor acts as an open circuit, blocking any more flow of DC current. The ratio of feedback capacitor to input resistor ( Xc/Rin ) is now infinite resulting in infinite gain. The result of this high gain (similar to the op-amps open-loop gain), is that the output of the amplifier goes into saturation as shown below. (Saturation occurs when the output voltage of the amplifier swings heavily to one voltage supply rail or the other with little or no control in between).
op-amp integrator output
The rate at which the output voltage increases (the rate of change) is determined by the value of the resistor and the capacitor, “RC time constant“. By changing this RC time constant value, either by changing the value of the Capacitor, C or the Resistor, R, the time in which it takes the output voltage to reach saturation can also be changed for example.
integrator output signal
If we apply a constantly changing input signal such as a square wave to the input of an Integrator Amplifier then the capacitor will charge and discharge in response to changes in the input signal. This results in the output signal being that of a sawtooth waveform whose output is affected by the RC time constant of the resistor/capacitor combination because at higher frequencies, the capacitor has less time to fully charge. This type of circuit is also known as a Ramp Generator and the transfer function is given below.

Op-amp Integrator Ramp Generator

sawtooth waveform
We know from first principals that the voltage on the plates of a capacitor is equal to the charge on the capacitor divided by its capacitance giving Q/C. Then the voltage across the capacitor is output Vout therefore: -Vout = Q/C. If the capacitor is charging and discharging, the rate of charge of voltage across the capacitor is given as:
voltage across a capacitor
But dQ/dt is electric current and since the node voltage of the integrating op-amp at its inverting input terminal is zero, X = 0, the input current I(in) flowing through the input resistor, Rin is given as:
op-amp integrator resistor current
The current flowing through the feedback capacitor C is given as:
integrator capacitor current
Assuming that the input impedance of the op-amp is infinite (ideal op-amp), no current flows into the op-amp terminal. Therefore, the nodal equation at the inverting input terminal is given as:
integrator equation
From which we derive an ideal voltage output for the Op-amp Integrator as:
op-amp integrator equation
To simplify the math’s a little, this can also be re-written as:
simplified integrator equation
Where ω = 2πƒ and the output voltage Vout is a constant 1/RC times the integral of the input voltage Vin with respect to time. The minus sign (  ) indicates a 180o phase shift because the input signal is connected directly to the inverting input terminal of the op-amp.

The AC or Continuous Op-amp Integrator

If we changed the above square wave input signal to that of a sine wave of varying frequency the Op-amp Integrator performs less like an integrator and begins to behave more like an active “Low Pass Filter”, passing low frequency signals while attenuating the high frequencies.
At 0Hz or DC, the capacitor acts like an open circuit blocking any feedback voltage resulting in very little negative feedback from the output back to the input of the amplifier. Then with just the feedback capacitor, C, the amplifier effectively is connected as a normal open-loop amplifier which has very high open-loop gain resulting in the output voltage saturating.
This circuit connects a high value resistance in parallel with a continuously charging and discharging capacitor. The addition of this feedback resistor, R2 across the capacitor, C gives the circuit the characteristics of an inverting amplifier with finite closed-loop gain of R2/R1. The result is at very low frequencies the circuit acts as an standard integrator, while at higher frequencies the capacitor shorts out the feedback resistor, R2 due to the effects of capacitive reactance reducing the amplifiers gain.

The AC Op-amp Integrator with DC Gain Control

AC Integrator amplifier
Unlike the DC integrator amplifier above whose output voltage at any instant will be the integral of a waveform so that when the input is a square wave, the output waveform will be triangular. For an AC integrator, a sinusoidal input waveform will produce another sine wave as its output which will be 90o out-of-phase with the input producing a cosine wave.
Further more, when the input is triangular, the output waveform is also sinusoidal. This then forms the basis of a Active Low Pass Filter as seen before in the filters section tutorials with a corner frequency given as.
op-amp integrator gain
In the next tutorial about Operational Amplifiers, we will look at another type of operational amplifier circuit which is the opposite or complement of the Op-amp Integrator circuit above called the Differentiator Amplifier. As its name implies, the differentiator amplifier produces an output signal which is the mathematical operation of differentiation, that is it produces a voltage output which is proportional to the input voltage’s rate-of-change and the current flowing through the input capacitor.

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