Electronics For Scientists – Daniel F Santavicca

(Note that here we’ve drawn the non-inverting input on the top! Sometimes, as is the case here, doing so makes the diagram prettier.) How does this work? Remember that the output must change so as to keep the input it’s connected to (the inverting input in this case) equal in voltage to the other input, when there’s negative feedback at work, as is the case here. Let’s say the non-inverting input is at 1 V.

What voltage does the output have to get to such that the voltage at the inverting input is also 1 V? There’s a voltage divider present, with the output at the top, the inverting input at the middle, and ground at the bottom. So, the output must get to 3 V such that there’s 1 V present at the inverting input, thus the gain of the amplifier is 3. Whatever voltage is present at the non-inverting input (positive or negative!), the output voltage will be 3 times larger.

In general, the gain is 1 + R2/R1. Note that in the limit that R2 is 0 Ω (a wire) and R1 is infinity Ω (open), we have gain of 1, so we recover the simple emitter- follower buffer from above. The input impedance is very large, which is a great thing, since it goes directly into an op-amp input.

But, there’s no way to get a gain less than 1, or a negative (inverting) Op-amps gain. And the common mode voltage (average of the two inputs) varies far from 0, leading to possible distortion. Inverting Amplifier The inverting op-amp configuration, shown in the following figure, solves these issues. The tradeoffis that input impedance is now small, equal to R1, and it always inverts the signal. The non-inverting input is grounded. So the op-amp must adjust the output so that the invert- ing input is also at 0 V.

The inverting input is called a virtual ground in this case. It’s not really a ground, but the voltage there will be kept at 0 V by the op-amp (or at least it will try to keep it at 0 V). There is again a voltage divider, with the output at the top, the inverting input in the middle, and the input signal at the bottom. For the case shown in the following figure, if the input signal from the signal generator is at 1 V, the output would need to be at −3 V to make the voltage at the inverting input 0 V.

Thus, both inputs are always very near ground, so the common mode voltage is very small, thus there’s very little risk of distortion.

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