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John Larkin 14 years ago

Hi, Phil,

Did you ever get the NE3509 to stop screaming? I measured its gate capacitance at about half a pF.

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Phil Hobbs 14 years ago

I'll try that next. Its pinout is different, so it isn't as easy to use in this amp.

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Phil

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Joerg 14 years ago

1/f is nearly always horrid with RF parts. If it's true wideband amplification you are after the only way is probably to diplex in a decent LF amp for the stuff under 20MHz. Of course that may not be helping much with phase noise in the GHz range.

I have done such splits before in FO gear but I had the luxury of a "dead band" (the client didn't need any signals from inseide there) from a few hundred kHz to a couple MHz or so. Meaning my diplexing could be rather crude.

Regards, Joerg http://www.analogconsultants.com/

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John Larkin 14 years ago

We run into that same issue. The superfast parts, like distributed amps, are inherently AC coupled, so we have to split the signal path and squirt the DC part back in at the very end, with a wideband inductor. If there are multiple places in the fast path that are AC coupled, the DC path gets messy, and it's hard to get flat step response.

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Phil Hobbs 14 years ago

Actually, it's okay for fast bootstraps and some TIAs--the differentiating action of the input capacitance gets rid of most of the low frequency schmutz. It's pretty good medicine for the 1 nA/100 MHz problem, which actually looks like it might be doable.

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Phil Hobbs

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