SBOS710D October 2014 – February 2018 LMH5401
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The LMH5401 has on-chip series output resistors to facilitate board layout. These resistors provide the LMH5401 extra phase margin in most applications. When the amplifier is used to drive a terminated transmission line or a controlled impedance filter, extra resistance is required to match the transmission line of the filter. In these applications, there is a 6 dB loss of gain. When the LMH5401 is used to drive loads that are not back-terminated there is a loss in gain resulting from the on-chip resistors. Figure 76 shows that loss for different load conditions. In most cases the loads are between 50 Ω and 200 Ω, where the on-chip resistor losses are 1.6 dB and 0.42 dB, respectively. Figure 77 shows the net gain realized by the amplifier for a large range of load resistances when the LMH5401 is configured for 16-dB gain.