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Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier

From Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu>
Newsgroups sci.electronics.design
Subject Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier
Date 2016-11-03 10:58 -0700
Organization Rowland Institute
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George Herold wrote...
> Spehro Pefhany wrote:
>> On Thu, 03 Nov 16, the renowned val <a@aa> wrote:
>> 
>>> I have a basic instrumentation amplifier made with
>>> three MAX 44245 op amps.  >My problem is that I have
>>> too much noise in the 50 to 100 kHz bandwidth ...
>> 
>> If you look at the datasheet, that op-amp has a strong
>> peak of noise around 40kHz (130nV/rtHz) vs. less than
>> 50nV/rtHz at 1kHz (still pretty noisy).  ...
> 
> 50 nV/rtHz, Yuck!  And they call it a low noise opamp.

 Did y'all notice it's an auto-zero amplifier, to get
 its 7.5uV Vos max spec?  That means it has input
 switches running, with charge injection, etc.


-- 
 Thanks,
    - Win

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noise in instrumentation amplifier val <a@aa> - 2016-11-03 12:26 +0000
  Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> - 2016-11-03 09:21 -0400
    Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2016-11-03 07:21 -0700
      Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier val <a@aa> - 2016-11-03 16:25 +0000
        Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2016-11-03 10:41 -0700
      Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Winfield Hill <hill@rowland.harvard.edu> - 2016-11-03 10:58 -0700
        Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2016-11-03 15:36 -0700
          Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier val <a@aa> - 2016-11-04 10:34 +0000
            Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2016-11-04 06:14 -0700
            Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier bill.sloman@ieee.org - 2016-11-04 20:39 -0700
            Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier val <a@aa> - 2016-11-06 16:16 +0000
        Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> - 2016-11-03 21:30 -0400
    Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Kevin Glover <kevinfglover@yahoo.com> - 2016-11-04 10:23 -0700
      Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2016-11-04 10:40 -0700
      Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Spehro Pefhany <speffSNIP@interlogDOTyou.knowwhat> - 2016-11-04 18:16 -0400
        Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier George Herold <gherold@teachspin.com> - 2016-11-04 16:10 -0700
      Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2016-11-04 20:43 -0700
      Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier val <a@aa> - 2016-11-05 10:54 +0000
        Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 05:37 -0700
          Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier John S <Sophi.2@invalid.org> - 2016-11-05 09:00 -0500
            Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Phil Allison <pallison49@gmail.com> - 2016-11-05 18:23 -0700
          Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier val <a@aa> - 2016-11-06 16:11 +0000
        Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2016-11-07 20:32 -0800
  Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier gravpoet <tciacciarelli@gmail.com> - 2016-11-03 06:26 -0700
    Re: noise in instrumentation amplifier John Larkin <jjlarkin@highlandtechnology.com> - 2016-11-03 09:08 -0700

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