Chapter 11

Other Applications

11.1 Introduction

This chapter discusses some other common and interesting op amp applications. Three applications will be discussed: interfacing digital-to-analog converters (DACs) to loads, oscillators, and power boosters. None of these is a complex enough topic to warrant its own chapter, but combined here they should round out your designer’s toolkit and make a complete chapter.

11.2 Interfacing Digital-to-Analog Converters to Loads

The techniques of Chapter 3 are applicable to transducer to op amp circuitry to analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), and now this chapter will introduce the reverse process: interfacing a DAC to a load. The design techniques are similar, but with the difference that these devices use ...

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