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I am only using one of the two opamps and the unused opamp I shorted the inputs to ground instead of putting it into a voltage follower config.
Am I putting my design at risk by not changing the design of the unused output.
I did lift pin 6 and shorted it to pin 7 and it had no affect on the output (pin 1) of the opamp that is being used.
I am very close to releasing the design to production, that is my hesitation in not correcting the layout.
Thanks for your time.
Unused op amp channels should always be configured in such a way so that the input and output voltages stay within the specified voltage range - see below:
Shorting the inputs to ground will result in the output being trioded at one of the rails (depending on polarity of internal offset voltage) - a non-linear operation. However, LMC6462 has CMOS output stage and thus this condition should not cause reliability issue in the other (used) channel.