LTC6268-10/LTC6269-10
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626810f
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OPERATION
The LTC6268-10/LTC6269-10 input signal range is speci-
fied from the negative supply to 0.5V below the positive
power supply, while the output can swing from rail-to-rail.
The schematic above depicts a simplified schematic of
the amplifier.
The input pins drive a CMOS buffer stage. The CMOS buffer
stage creates replicas of the input voltages to boot strap
the protection diodes. In turn, the buffer stage drives a
complementary input stage consisting of two differential
amplifiers, active over different ranges of input common
mode voltage. The main differential amplifier is active with
input common mode voltages from the negative power
supply to approximately 1.55V below the positive supply,
with the second amplifier active over the remaining range
to 0.5V below the positive supply rail. The buffer and
output bias stage uses a special compensation technique
ensuring stability of the op amp. The common emitter
topology of output transistors Q1/Q2 enables the output
to swing from rail-to-rail.
APPLICATIONS INFORMATION
Figure 1. Simplified TIA Schematic
voltage noise (eN) consists of flicker noise (or 1/f noise),
which dominates at lower frequencies, and thermal noise
which dominates at higher frequencies. For LTC6268-10,
the 1/f corner, or transition between 1/f and thermal noise,
is at 40kHz. The iN and RF contributions to input referred
noise current at the minus input are relatively straight
forward, while the eN contribution is amplified by the noise
gain. Because there is no gain resistor, the noise gain is
calculated using feedback resistor(RF) in conjunction
with impedance of CIN as (1 + 2π RF • CIN • Freq), which
increases with frequency. All of the contributions will be
limited by the closed loop bandwidth. The equivalent input
current noise is shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3, where eN
represents contribution from input referred voltage noise
(eN), iN represents contribution from input referred current
noise (iN), and RF represents contribution from feedback
resistor (RF). TIA gain (RF) and capacitance at input (CIN)
are also shown on each figure. Comparing Figure 2 and
Figure 3, iN dominates at higher frequencies. At lower
frequencies, the RF contribution dominates. Since aver-
age wide band eN is 4.0nV/√Hz (see typical performance
characteristics), RF contribution will become a lesser factor
at lower frequencies if RF is less than 860Ω as indicated
by the following equation:
F
4kT /RF
–
+
CF
RF
CIN
GND
IN
OUT
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Noise
To minimize the LTC6268-10’s noise over a broad range
of applications, careful consideration has been placed on
input referred voltage noise (eN), input referred current
noise (iN) and input capacitance CIN.
For a transimpedance amplifier (TIA) application such as
shown in Figure 1, all three of these op amp parameters,
plus the value of feedback resistance RF, contribute to noise
behavior in different ways, and external components and
traces will add to CIN. It is important to understand the
impact of each parameter independently. Input referred