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Hello
I want to amplify a small signal with a gain of +1V/V or +5V/V with OPA659. (alternative amplifier for me is use of OPA5657 with a gain of +2V/V or +10V/V)
as per page 17 of OPA659's datasheet (section 9.1.3.3) we should use Riso between the output and the load to drive a capacitive loads.
a coaxial cable such as RG174 or RG316 have the below spec:
R=0.28 Ohm/m L=200nH/m C=101pF/m
the standard solution to drive a coax cable is like it:
section 9.1.3.3 has mentioned we should check the Phase Margin to check the quality of the circuit.
the phase margin is 87.675' and it's larger than 60'. I think the system is a little slow like a first order system. (in aspect of Step response)
what should I do?
How much Riso should be?
OPA656 unity gain amplifier has a PM of 55' for my application. is it a good PM for data acquisition systems?
Regards
The OPA659 being a voltage feedback amplifier, higher the gain it is set to the lower will be the closed loop BW (which makes the system slower). This means the system become more stable with higher phase margin and less overshoot. One way to reduce the operating phase margin from 87.7' to 60' is by reducing the OPA659 gain from 5V/V to 2V/V. This effectively increases BW of the system thus reducing rise time of the pulse response (governed by the relationship trise/fall = 0.35/f-3dB for a first order system).
While driving a transmission line or coaxial cable, it is always recommended to match source and load impedance of the system to the characteristic impedance (Zo = sqrt(L/C)) of the transmission line for maximum power transfer at the load. For a 50-ohm system, I would recommend the Riso to be 50-ohms at the OPA659 output. It is important to note that setting the Riso to 50-ohms should have already decoupled the loop gain phase shift from the coaxial cable capacitance; thus setting the op amp phase margin solely on the closed loop gain of the op-amp set by Rf and Rg.
A PM of 55' with OPA656 unity gain amplifier should be good PM for data acquisition systems. You could see from below curves that 55' PM should result in not very high overshoot. However, I wanted to point out that the OPA656 has much lower slew rate (290V/us) as compared to the OPA659 slew rate (2550 V/us) because of the difference in large signal BW. Lower slew rate could affect the drive capability of the OPA656 for large signal swings while driving longer coaxial cables - something to consider for data acquisition system part selection.
Best Regards,
Rohit
Q vs Phase Margin:
Transient Response vs Q:
