However, op amps can also be used as comparators, which causes them to operate non-linearly. The inputs are driven hard and the output voltage slams to the power supply rail. As we will see, this may ...

Sponsored by: Texas Instruments. Generally speaking, an op amp doesn’t make for a good comparator. To achieve optimal performance and avoid additional debugging, an IC comparator is the best bet.

Now some 50years later having used both op amps and comparators, I have good understanding of these devices and wish to pass some practical information along. Perhaps the most popular operational ...

The very basics of operational amplifiers. Learn comparator, inverting, and non-inverting op-amp configurations. An operational amplifier, or op amp, is a dc-coupled high-gain electronic ...

particularly if you want to use the circuit as a comparator as we are here. Other practical problems arise because the op amp isn’t really perfect. A real op amp would not hit the 15V rail exactly.

In addition to comparators, there’s a flip flop, a few oscillators, and a PWM audio over optical transmitter and receiver. If you want to test your understanding of op amps, you can try to ...

Providing critical circuit functions in virtually all electronic circuit designs, the low-voltage op-amps and comparators specifically target the rapidly expanding low-voltage product segment ...

Study: Quantum dot cellular automata using a one-bit comparator for QCA gates. Image Credit: Untitled Title/Shutterstock.com In an article recently published in the journal Materials Today: ...

TI claims to have produced the industry’s smallest op amp and low-power comparators at 0.64 mm2. As the first amplifiers in the X2SON package, the TLV9061 op amp and TLV7011 family of comparators ...