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How to BW Limit INA163 ?

Other Parts Discussed in Thread: INA163, TINA-TI

Hello, I am building an analog signal conditioning board for which the front end is the INA163, I am trying to create a "shelf-filter" type of response with a 22 nF in series with a 680 Ohm resistor, with a 2.2 nF in parallel again, in each feedback loop of the INA163 (between pins 1 to 3 and pins 14 to 12). However, this produces a very unstable, distorted and noisy (high frequency hash) output from the INA163. Even just trying to put a single 22nF cap in each feedback loop to cause a first order roll-off at ~ 2.4 kHz (22 nF in parallel with a 3000 Ohm) results in the same noisy output, although not as bad as the first case mentioned.

My signal characteristics are such that low frequency signals (1 Hz to 500 Hz) are ~ 5 times smaller than high frequency signals (5 kHz to 20 kHz), so I would like to use more gain at low frequency, and less at high, if possible.

Does anyone know the correct way to bandwidth limit the gain response of the INA163 ?

Thank you very much,

David

  • Hi David,

    What are the desired gains for the two shelves (1-500Hz and 5kHz-20kHz)?  I'm not sure if this is something that can be done with the INA163, but I'm interested in the possibility.  On a side note, I will be out of the office until Monday.

    I did start working on this in TINA-TI...please see attached.  Note that I have a few different feedback networks to test.  To set a cutoff frequency of 500Hz you would need a 0.1uF capacitor in the feedback.

    /cfs-file/__key/communityserver-discussions-components-files/14/ina163shelf.TSC

    One observation of the original schematic is that the second shelf is quite small, if you will.  This is because the two capacitors are only 1 decade apart.