Re: Second Stage of Op-Am (Current to Voltage)

From: John Popelish (jpopelish_at_rica.net)
Date: 12/28/04 

Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2004 14:14:31 -0500

Monty Hall wrote:
(snip)
> I was looking to understand the op-amp analytically - not plug and chug root
> finding in SPICE. I want an articulation
> as to why it works - not "it just does" or "what else could it be...",
> "where else could it come from" - heard those a million times. Simply
> put... please prove it - analytically.
(snip)

I haven't been following the details of this thread very well, so I
hope this is useful. Have you read through the National semiconductor
opamp tutorial, yet?

http://www.national.com/an/AN/AN-A.pdf

It goes through a generic but simplified opamp, pretty thoroughly. 

-- 
John Popelish
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