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| Specifications | One of your high-speed triple amplifiers is oscillating. What\220s wrong with it? Rarely Asked Questions \Capaciticectomy? Sounds Awfully Painful!\ Rarely Asked Questions, RAQs, amplifiers, John Ardizzoni Analog Devices |
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| Specifications | One of your high-speed triple amplifiers is oscillating. What\220s wrong with it? Rarely Asked Questions \Capaciticectomy? Sounds Awfully Painful!\ Rarely Asked Questions, RAQs, amplifiers, John Ardizzoni Analog Devices |
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| Content | SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION DESIGN NEWS 00.00.00 [www.designnews.com] 23 Have a question involving a perplexing or unusual analog problem? Submit your question to: raq@reedbusiness.com For Analog Devices’ Technical Support, Call 800-AnalogD SPONSORED BY Contributing Writer John Ardizzoni is an Application Engineer at Analog Devices in the High Speed Ampli- fier Group. John has been with Analog Devices for 4 years, he received his BSEE from Merrimack College in 1988 and has over 27 years experience in the electronics industry. A. Well there are a variety of things that could be wrong with the “circuits,” but most likely there nothing intrinsically wrong with the amplifier. With many high- performance amplifiers, however, you do need to pay close attention to layout and bypassing. If ignored, you and your circuit could feel a little ill. With wideband devices, you need to be careful and pay attention to the small details. In this case, it turned out that the oscillation experienced by the customer wasn’t caused by the amplifier itself, but by poor layout. To be specific, the problem was parasitic capacitance at the inverting input of the amplifier to ground. Capacitance at the inverting input introduces a pole in the amplifier’s loop response, lowering the amplifier’s phase margin and causing insta- bility, peaking, and ringing. It doesn’t take much capacitance1 to cause an oscillation, and you can easily accumulate 2 to 3 pF of capacitance at the summing node (invert- ing input) if you’re not paying attention to layout. I always advise customers to bread- board the circuit if possible, and to test the heck out it in the lab. A high-performance simulated design can be rendered useless if proper layout guidelines are not followed. The solution is a capaciticectomy (not really a word) — although it’s quite difficult to remove parasitic capacitance after it has infiltrated your board. Therefore, in these cases, prevention is the best medicine. The capacitance is formed by the small mount- ing pads of the amplifier, gain setting and feedback resistor pads, board dielectric and the ground plane. We always recommend removing the ground plane from beneath the amplifier mounting pads and around the summing node where the feedback and gain set resistor pads are located. Doing so effectively removes the bot- tom plate of the parasitic capacitor and therefore eliminates the capacitance. This applies equally to the output, as parasitic capacitance at the output can also cause similar problems. As with humans, a little preventative medi- cine goes a long way. Paying attention to board layout issues at the onset of your design, will keep you and your circuit in tip- top shape! Keep an eye out for our New and Improved webinar this October, “A Practical Guide to High-Speed Printed-Circuit-Board Layout.” 1 Some customers ask how much capacitance is enough to cause a circuit to oscillate. I sometimes tell them a 1000pF is enough. Confused looks abound and I explain to them that if 1pF = a puff, then a 1000pF = 1 nF, then it stands to reason 1 nF = a nuff and a nuff is enough! A Capaciticectomy? Sounds Awfully Painful! To Learn More About Board Layout Go to: http://rbi.ims.ca/5713-100 Q. One of your high-speed triple amplifiers is oscillating. What’s wrong with it? Rarely Asked Questions RAQ’s DESIGN NEWS 06.02.08 [www.designnews.com] ## Have a question involving a perplexing or unusual analog problem? Submit your question to: raq@reedbusiness.com For Analog Devices’ Technical Support, Call 800-AnalogD SPONSORED BY Contributing Writer John Ardizzoni is an Application Engineer at Analog Devices in the High Speed Linear group. John has been with Analog Devices since 2002, he received his BSEE from Merri- mack College in N. An- dover, MA and has over 28 years experience in the electronics industry. SPECIAL ADVERTISING SECTION |
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