Chapter 12. Negative Feedback

It is difficult to convince people that this frequency is of no relevance whatsoever to the speed of amplifiers and that it does not affect the slew rate. Nonetheless, it is so, and any first-year electronics textbook will confirm this. High-gain op-amps with sub-1-Hz bandwidths and blindingly fast slewing are as common as the grass (if somewhat less expensive) and if that does not demonstrate the point beyond doubt then I really do not know what will.

Limited open-loop bandwidth prevents the feedback signal from immediately following the system input, so the utility of this delayed feedback is limited. No linear circuit can introduce a pure time delay; the output must begin to respond at once, even if it takes ...

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