Re: Operational Amplifier Design

From: Jim Thompson (thegreatone_at_example.com)
Date: 11/09/04 

Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 17:29:40 -0700

On 8 Nov 2004 15:57:30 -0800, Winfield Hill
<whill_a@t_rowland-dotties-harvard-dot.s-edu> wrote:

>Jim Thompson wrote...
>>
>> But I don't know of a single commercial amplifier that isn't set
>> up that way.
>
> Doesn't adding a modest series resistor (along with an ESD network
> after the resistor) give one a chance to both stabilize the loop,
> and avoid ESD failure?

Actually, most compensation caps _do_ have a series resistor (to
introduce a zero).

                                        ...Jim Thompson 

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