Video Drivers, I admit I don't know much

uvcceet_at_juno.com
Date: 01/14/05 

Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 17:12:52 -0700

Hi,

I don't know all that much about video and buffering it but am always
willing, and hoping to learn.

I have two broadcast video feeds that I need to switch between, using an
analog switch. Assuming that all the gain and output loading requirements
of each feed are already dealt with behind the switch by the previous
designer, I think I just need a unity gain buffer on the output side of
the switch since the switch itself cannot drive any loads, and needs to be
protected from the outside world as well.

I admit that don't know the best way to configure the output buffer. I am
picking up an existing design and trying to learn my way through it, as it
should be obvious I am not all that learned in such things. I do search
web sites and app notes, but its possible that this one is just too simple
for them to bother with, or I am not looking in the right place.

I am figuring a EL2244 or equivalent. Does it require a feedback ckt, a
resistor between the output and the negative input, or just the output
tied back to the inverting input? (not very good at ascii art yet) Since I
seek unity gain, is it just a 750 ohm from output to inverting input, and
from there another 750 ohm to ground?

I am looking at one schematic where the output of such an analog switch is
an LT1361 (righteous bucks for that! <g>) and it is just video into the +,
and a 750 ohm feedback to the - input. Not knowing what is going on back
upstream, I can't guess exactly why that value was chosen, and if it is
needed, or just a designer's method that works as well as other
configurations.

I am doing is reading app notes, and looking at existing designs trying
to learn on the fly, and I am not seeing a lot of consistency in what is
done, so I gather there are many opinions, and they all work, but since I
don't know the designers, I can't ask them what they were thinking, and
why they chose what they did.

That leads me to this group, and hopefully its not too inane a question to
be asking.

I like to hear about web sites I can learn this from, so pointers would
be gratefully accepted as well as opinions on how to configure this
buffer.

Thanks for your consideration.

John

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