JAJU648A November 2018 – April 2022 TLV3601 , TLV3601-Q1 , TLV3603 , TLV3603-Q1
The goal for the OPA858 transimpedance amplifier design is to achieve greater than 200 MHz of bandwidth with a gain of 10 kΩ. The maximum achievable transimpedance bandwidth of a circuit is a function of the amplifier gain bandwidth, gain, input capacitance, and feedback capacitance. The NR-7500 photodiode chosen for this design has an input capacitance of approximately 1.1 pF with a reverse bias voltage of 5 V. The photodiode capacitance coupled with the input 800-fF input capacitance of the OPA858 and the expected parasitic capacitance from the PCB yields a total input capacitance of approximately 2 pF. Using the transimpedance design theory stated in the Transimpedance Considerations for High-Speed Amplifiers application report, a Butterworth response with a quality factor (Q) of 0.707 yields a required feedback capacitance of approximately 100 fF and a bandwidth of 205 MHz. In order to achieve a higher bandwidth, relax the Q value to 0.95 to change the feedback capacitance to 75 fF and the bandwidth to 260 MHz. The higher Q value does cause peaking in the frequency response and overshoot in the pulse response, but with the edge-triggered nature of the TDC7201 measurement, the tradeoff of some overshoot allows a faster edge rate from the amplifier.