SBOS110C May 1998 – March 2023 OPA2227 , OPA2228 , OPA227 , OPA228 , OPA4227 , OPA4228
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A variety of compensation techniques have been evaluated specifically for use with the OPA228. The recommended configuration consists of an additional capacitor (CF) in parallel with the feedback resistance, as shown in Figure 8-2 and Figure 8-3. This feedback capacitor serves two purposes in compensating the circuit. The operational amplifier’s input capacitance and the feedback resistors interact to cause phase shift that can result in instability. CF compensates the input capacitance, minimizing peaking. Additionally, at high frequencies, the closed-loop gain of the amplifier is strongly influenced by the ratio of the input capacitance and the feedback capacitor. Thus, CF can be selected to yield good stability while maintaining high-speed.
Without external compensation, the noise specification of the OPA228 is the same as that for the OPA227 in gains of 5 or greater. With the additional external compensation, the output noise of the OPA228 is higher. The amount of noise increase is directly related to the increase in high-frequency closed-loop gain established by the CIN/CF ratio.
Figure 8-2 and Figure 8-3 show the recommended circuit for gains of 2 and –2, respectively. The figures suggest approximate values for CF. Because compensation highly depends on circuit design, board layout, and load conditions, optimize CF experimentally for best results. Figure 8-4 and Figure 8-6 show the large- and small-signal step responses for the G = 2 configuration with 100-pF load capacitance.Figure 8-5 and Figure 8-7 show the large- and small-signal step responses for the G = –2 configuration with 100-pF load capacitance.