Re: What's the hi-side current sense chip du jour?

On Tue, 2 Jun 2009 00:12:32 -0700 (PDT), "miso@xxxxxxxxx"
<miso@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Jun 1, 6:23 pm, MooseFET <kensm...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On May 31, 1:00 pm, John Larkin<jjlar...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sun, 31 May 2009 12:22:30 -0700 (PDT), MooseFET

[... bugs in chips...]



(2) Early LT1028 datasheets cut off the noise graph before the ugly
rise to a peak that happens near 300KHz.

That's downright dishonest.

I think it was more like a blunder than anything.  They overlooked
what happens when the input pair runs out of steam.  I am fair certain
that if you look at the current data***, it is clearly shown.

One Hittite switch data *** states boldly that it works from DC to 4
GHz. Turns out their in-house definition of DC is 100 MHz.

I sometimes deal with AC at 0.001 Hz or lower.  I guess I should stay
away from that one.

[1]



THS3062 is great, as long as you don't ask it to amplify sine waves
anywhere near a third of its swing or slew rate specs. If you do, it
latches up and gets hot enough to put a hole in your finger. A little
time spent phoning tech support (six weeks in our case) will verify
that this is maybe true, in not so many words, and that it's really
your fault.

Another part not to use.  I drive op-amps up to their slew rate limits
fairly often

LM35 is a very sensitive latching pulse detector, as well as a
temperature sensor and general-purpose oscillator.

Mini-Circuits MMIC data sheets should state that "fab houses and gross
performance are subject to unannounced, random, radical change" and
"we don't actually know much about these parts." Optek lasers, ditto.

Don't even get me started on voltage regulator capacitive-load
stability.

That is LDOs.  References often has words like "with a xxxuF load" in
the data*** that you need to look for carefully.  Some references
hate large capacitors and others love them.

[1] Lately LTC uses the term "LF" instead of the often-dishonest "DC"

I never did an amp with 3 gain stages, but I can see the 1028 getting
funky at the high end. Still an impressive bit of silicon after all
these years. It's been bettered, but not by great margins.

Maxim introduced a MAX1028, then pulled it. There must be a story.

John


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