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This is rrio, 8 MHz, 32 volts max supply.

It seems to be c-load stable at 1 uF and up, ceramic or tantalum, which means it can drive bypassed reference rails and low-current power rails.

It rails clean, so will work as a comparator, but above 20 volt supply the positive clamp gets a little strange.

40 cents each by the reel.
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45 nV typical 1-Hz noise, though, yikes!

A fave of mine in the low cost/good performance regime is the MC33078, whic h is a dual with vaguely similar specs. It doesn't work well below 10V tota l supply, and has a lot of input bias current, but its 1-Hz noise is an ord er of magnitude less and it's cheaper: under 30 cents for the 8-VSSOP in re els from Digikey.

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Noise doesn't matter much in the thing I'm doing now. 47 uF from the output to ground helps, too.

I'll regularly be using these from 3.3 to 24 volts. It's a faster, c-loadable, cheaper version of LM7301, which we have used 46,000 of so far. Threw away maybe $25K.

After I finish the design, maybe 34 sheets of schematic, we can review it and maybe replace some single SOT23's with cheap duals. Gotta consider pcb placement and pick-and-place feeders as well as the electricals. Using "universal" c-load high voltage single rrio's is easy.

Looks like the cheapest opamp that we have in stock is an LM358, 10 cents for the dual. Horrible amp.

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I'm a big fan of SOT-23 op-amps. It's too bad nobody ever adds that package for older dies.

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ISTM that the popular parts among old cheap designs are usually duals or qu ads, which took advantage of all the real estate DIP packages afford. (What 's the single version of the 324/358?)

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The cheapest single opamp that Mouser shows is 16 cents at 1K.

The cheapest dual is 10 cents!

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I've been using the MicroChip MCP629x (x=1-4), which comes in a SOT-23, SO-8, SO-14, and TSSOP-14. Good price, if you can use a million a year. ;-)

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Maybe my PDF reader is altering things, but I see only stability at 1nF load (in both data sheet and cover - feature list). Transient responses are shown with only ~25pF load. The voltage drift is rendering in uV/C, so the "micro" character seems ok. {This is with both xpdf and evince on a linux system).

Perhaps you have some information from a source other than your link?

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I experimented with one. It gets a little fuzzy with 10 nF loads, but stabilizes nicely with microfarads.

Opamps are fairly unpredictable as regards their c-load behavior. RRO parts are often capacitance tolerant, but it depends on how they do the internal rolloff. Data sheets used to have internal schematics, which is getting rare these days.

My ideal opamp is single SOT23, rrio, low noise, low offset, low bias current, fairly fast, c-load tolerant, 3 to 30 volt supply, and cheap.

OPA197 is a candidate, but I haven't tested it yet. It's 67 cents in reel quantity. The EMI filtering is nice. It works down to 4.5 volts and can output +-40 mA, so it might be worth another 30 cents.

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Ah, from testing. Seems similar to some of the TLx431 family loading zones.

Hopefully OnSemi won't change their process on you mid-production, continuing to meet their specs but not your expectations.

Sad. But as long as we buy the devices, the manufacturers will continue to do this (and probably continue making data sheets less comprehensive).

And low power consumption, and guaranteed availability for ____ time. Please let us all know when you find this part!

At least this data sheet shows more information regarding C-load behavior.

Thanks, Frank

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