SLOS823D December 2012 – March 2020 THS4531A
PRODUCTION DATA.
The THS4531A is designed for a nominal parasitic capacitive load of 2 pF (differentially). When driving capacitive loads greater than this, TI recommends using small resisters (RO) in series with the output as close to the device as possible. Without RO, capacitance on the output interacts with the output impedance of the amplifier causing phase shift in the loop gain of the amplifier that reduces the phase margin resulting in:
Inserting RO compensates the phase shift and restores the phase margin, but it also limits bandwidth. The circuit shown in Figure 71 is used to test for best RO versus capacitive loads, CL, with a capacitance placed differential across the VOUT+ and VOUT- along with 2-kΩ load resistor, and the output is measure with a differential probe. Figure 77 shows the suggested values of RO versus capacitive loads, CL, and Figure 78 shows the frequency response with various values. Performance is the same on both 2.7-V and 5-V supply.