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Differential Difference Amplifier
Oct 25th, 2013, 2:09am
 
Hi all,


I'm looking to design a closed loop differential-in, single-ended out unity gain amplifier. It needs to have very good CMRR. One way to design such a circuit is to use an instrumentation amplifier. However, an instrumentation amplifier drives resistive loads in the first stage, making it a little power hungry. I found such a circuit can also be designed using a differential difference amplifier with feedback.

Does anybody have any experience with this circuit? How does it compare to a normal op-amp in unity-gain feedback in terms of accuracy. Alternatively, does anybody know of other good options?

Any feedback is appreciated.


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Reply #1 - Oct 25th, 2013, 10:47am
 
Sure, I've designed one with a cascoded current mirror.  Just tack on another Diff pair.  Mine was fully diff'l so I spend a lot of time on CMFB amps.  You should get similar specs to any similar amp of the same technology.  Make sure the CM of input 1 is similar to CM of input 2.

Ref:  Sackinger

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Reply #2 - Oct 27th, 2013, 7:55am
 
Thanks for the reply.


Yeah I've read that paper. Its interesting. I've just got this feeling that I'm not going to get the same kind of performance as a typical opamp in feedback. I guess I need to do some analysis.


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Reply #3 - Nov 26th, 2013, 3:39am
 
aaron_do wrote on Oct 27th, 2013, 7:55am:
Thanks for the reply.


Yeah I've read that paper. Its interesting. I've just got this feeling that I'm not going to get the same kind of performance as a typical opamp in feedback. I guess I need to do some analysis.


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Aaron


For one of my designs, I need to design a Instrumentation amplifier using DDA approach. Can you pls throw some light on this?
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Reply #4 - Nov 27th, 2013, 12:25am
 
Hi,


do you have any specific questions? I referred to a paper in ieeexplore. Just search for Differential Difference Amplifier...


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Reply #5 - Nov 29th, 2013, 2:14am
 
Hi,

I, too, referred an IEEE paper. I am designing an Instrumentation amplifier using DDA approach. I tried to optimize the circuit to get desired results but phase margin is very bad. I have attached the circuit and plot.
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Reply #6 - Nov 29th, 2013, 2:24am
 
Hi shaikss_rf,


I suggest you attach the images directly to the post, instead of using a zip file.


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