SBOS382H may 2008 – june 2023 OPA2673
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One of the most demanding and yet very common load conditions for an op amp is capacitive loading. The capacitive load is often the input of an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), including additional external capacitance that can be recommended to improve the ADC linearity. A high-speed, high-open-loop gain amplifier, such as the OPA2673, can be very susceptible to decreased stability and closed-loop response peaking when a capacitive load is placed directly on the output pin. When the amplifier open-loop output resistance is considered, this capacitive load introduces an additional pole in the signal path that can decrease the phase margin.
When the primary considerations are frequency-response flatness, pulse-response fidelity, and distortion, the simplest and most effective solution is to isolate the capacitive load (CL) from the feedback loop by inserting a series isolation resistor (RISO) between the amplifier output and the capacitive load. Figure 8-6 shows this configuration. This approach does not eliminate the pole from the loop response, but rather shifts the pole and adds a zero at a higher frequency. The additional zero acts to cancel the phase lag from the capacitive load pole, thus increasing the phase margin and improving stability. Figure 8-7 shows the Recommended RISO vs CL, and Figure 8-8 shows the resulting frequency response with the optimized RISO value.