Op amps are one of the most versatile ICs in electronics. A purely analog device, they can be used for amplification, summing, integration, and a whole host of other circuits. AN-31 from Texas Instruments is 32 pages of op amp circuits. (Note: this document was created before TI acquired National Semiconductor.)
Even more amazing is that the author is Bob Pease. If you never heard of Mr. Pease, please spend a few minutes right now reading this TI page dedicated to him. His contributions to electronics are nearly immeasurable. (Sadly, he was involved in a car accident after attending the funeral of his equally famous engineering friend, Jim Williams.)
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Regarding Op Amps, circuits found in this application note include:
- Inverting Amp
- Non-Inverting Amp
- Difference Amp
- Inverting Summing Amp
- Non-Inverting Summing amp (with High Input Impedance)
- Fast Inverting Amp with high input impedance
- Non-inverting AC Amplifier
- Practical Differentiator
- Integrator
- Fast Integrator
- Current to Voltage Converter
- Threshold Detector for Photodiodes
- Double-Ended Limit Detector
- Multiple Aperture Window Discriminator
- Offset voltage adjustment op-amp based amplifer types
- Sine Wave Generators
- Free-running multivibrator (eat that 555!)
- Wein Bridge Size Wave Oscillator
- Function Generator (Square and Triangle Wave Outputs)
- Pulse Width Modulator (forget anlaogWrite()!)
- Bilateral Current Source
- Positive voltage reference (Use it with as a Zener “Regulator”)
- Negative voltage reference
- Precision Current Sink
- Precision Current Source
- Instrument Amplifiers
- Precision Clamp
- Fast Half Wave Rectifier
- Precision AC to DC Converter
- Low Drift Peak Detector
- Sample and Hold
- Tunable Notch Filter
- Variable Capacitance Multiplier
- Simulated Inductor (what?!)
- High and Low Pass Filters
- Current Monitor
- Power Booster
- Analog Multiplier
- Fast Zero Crossing Detector
- Piezoelectric Transducer Amplifer
- Temperature Probe
- Photodiode Amplifier
- Temperature compensated logarithmic converter
- Root Extractor
- Cube Generator
- Anti-log generator
- … and more
I skipped some of the repeats and variants. But seriously. Can you believe how many different circuits that be built from the humble operational amplifier? To be perfectly honest, I don’t even recognize some of those circuits. But. Seeing them in this application note makes me want to go and build them.
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