The LMH™6574 is a high performance analog multiplexer
optimized for professional grade video and other high fidelity
high bandwidth analog applications. The output amplifier
selects any one of four buffered input signals based on the
state of the two address bits. The LMH6574 provides a 400
MHz bandwidth at 2 V
high definition television (HDTV) applications can benefit
from the LMH6574’s 0.1 dB bandwidth of 150 MHz and its
2200 V/µs slew rate.
The LMH6574 supports composite video applications with its
0.02% and 0.05˚ differential gain and phase errors for NTSC
and PAL video signals while driving a single, back terminated
75Ω load. An 80 mA linear output current is available for
driving multiple video load applications.
The LMH6574 gain is set by external feedback and gain set
resistors for maximum flexibility.
The LMH6574 is available in the 14 pin SOIC package.
output signal levels. Multimedia and
PP
Connection Diagram
14-Pin SOIC
Features
n 500 MHz, 500 mV −3 dB bandwidth, AV=2
n 400 MHz, 2V
n 8 ns channel switching time
n 70 dB channel to channel isolation
n 0.02%, 0.05˚ diff. gain, phase
n 0.1 dB gain flatness to 150 MHz
n 2200 V/µs slew rate
n Wide supply voltage range: 6V (
n −68 dB HD2
n −84 dB HD3
−3 dB bandwidth, AV=2
PP
@
5 MHz
@
5 MHz
@
10 MHz
±
3V) to 12V (±6V)
Applications
n Video router
n Multi input video monitor
n Instrumentation / Test equipment
n Receiver IF diversity switch
n Multi Channel A/D Driver
n Picture in Picture video switch
Note 1: Absolute Maximum Ratings indicate limits beyond which damage to the device may occur. Operating Ratings indicate conditions for which the device is
intended to be functional, but specific performance is not guaranteed. For guaranteed specifications, see the Electrical Characteristics tables.
Note 2: Electrical Table values apply only for factory testing conditions at the temperature indicated. Factory testing conditions result in very limited self-heating of
the device such that T
See Applications Section for information on temperature de-rating of this device. Min/Max ratings are based on product testing, characterization and simulation.
Individual parameters are tested as noted.
Note 3: The maximum output current (I
150˚C). See the Power Dissipation section of the Application Section for more details. A short circuit condition should be limited to 5 seconds or less.
Note 4: Human Body model, 1.5kΩ in series with 100pF. Machine model, 0Ω In series with 200pF
Note 5: Parameters guaranteed by electrical testing at 25˚C.
Note 6: Parameters guaranteed by design.
Note 7: Positive Value is current into device.
. No guarantee of parametric performance is indicated in the electrical tables under conditions of internal self heating where T
J=TA
) is determined by the device power dissipation limitations (The junction temperature cannot be allowed to exceed
The LMH6574 is a high-speed 4:1 analog multiplexer, optimized for very high speed and low distortion. With selectable
gain and excellent AC performance, the LMH6574 is ideally
suited for switching high resolution, presentation grade video
signals. The LMH6574 has no internal ground reference.
Single or split supply configurations are both possible. The
LMH6574 features very high speed channel switching and
disable times. When disabled the LMH6574 output is high
impedance making MUX expansion possible by combining
multiple devices. See “Multiplexer Expansion” section below.
VIDEO PERFORMANCE
The LMH6574 has been designed to provide excellent performance with production quality video signals in a wide
variety of formats such as HDTV and High Resolution VGA.
Best performance will be obtained with back-terminated
loads. The back termination reduces reflections from the
transmission line and effectively masks transmission line
and other parasitic capacitances from the amplifier output
stage. Figure 1 shows a typical configuration for driving a
75Ω. Cable. The output buffer is configured for a gain of 2,
so using back terminated loads will give a net gain of 1.
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FEEDBACK RESISTOR SELECTION
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FIGURE 2. Suggested RFvs. Gain
The LMH6574 has a current feedback output buffer with gain
determined by external feedback (R
) and gain set (RG)
F
resistors. With current feedback amplifiers, the closed loop
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Application Notes (Continued)
frequency response is a function of R
the recommended value of R
the chart “Suggested R
F
vs Gain”. Generally, lowering R
F
from the recommended value will peak the frequency response and extend the bandwidth while increasing the value
will cause the frequency response to roll off faster.
of R
F
Reducing the value of R
too far below the recommended
F
value will cause overshoot, ringing and, eventually, oscillation.
Since all applications are slightly different it is worth some
experimentation to find the optimal R
more information see Application Note OA-13 which describes the relationship between R
quency response for current feedback operational amplifiers.
The impedance looking into pin 12 is approximately 20Ω.
This allows for good bandwidth at gains up to 10 V/V. When
used with gains over 10 V/V, the LMH6574 will exhibit a “gain
bandwidth product” similar to a typical voltage feedback
amplifier. For gains of over 10 V/V consider selecting a high
performance video amplifier like the LMH6720 to provide
additional gain.
SD vs. EN
The LMH6574 has both shutdown and disable capability.
The shutdown feature affects the entire chip, whereas the
disable function only affects the output buffer. When in shutdown mode, minimal power is consumed. The shutdown
function is very fast, but causes a very brief spike of about
400 mV to appear on the output. When in shutdown mode
the LMH6574 consumes only 1.8 mA of supply current. For
maximum input to output isolation use the shutdown function.
The EN pin only disables the output buffer which results in a
substantially reduced output glitch of only 50 mV. While
disabled the chip consumes 4.7 mA, considerably more than
when shutdown. This is because the input buffers are still
active. For minimal output glitch use the EN pin. Also, care
should be taken to ensure that, while in the disabled state,
the voltage differential between the active input buffer (the
one selected by pins A0 and A1) and the output pin stays
less than 2V. As the voltage differential increases, input to
output isolation decreases. Normally this is not an issue. See
the section on MULTIPLEXER EXPANSION for further details.
To reduce the output glitch when using the SD pin, switch the
EN pin at least 10 ns before switching the SD pin. This can
be accomplished by using an RC delay circuit between the
two pins if only one control signal is available.
EVALUATION BOARDS
National Semiconductor provides the following evaluation
boards as a guide for high frequency layout and as an aid in
device testing and characterization. Many of the data sheet
plots were measured with this board.
. For a gain of 2 V/V,
F
is 575Ω. For other gains see
for a given circuit. For
F
and closed-loop fre-
F
DevicePackageEvaluation Board
LMH6574SOICLMH730276
F
An evaluation board can be shipped when a sample request
is placed with National Semiconductor. Samples can be
ordered on the National web page. (www.national.com)
MULTIPLEXER EXPANSION
With the SHUTDOWN pin putting the output stage into a
high impedance state, several LMH6574’s can be tied together to form a larger input MUX. However, there is a
loading effect on the active output caused by the unselected
devices. The circuit in Figure 3 shows how to compensate
for this effect. For the 16:1 MUX function shown in Figure 3
below the gain error would be about −0.8 dB, or about 9%. In
the circuit in Figure 3, resistor ratios have been adjusted to
compensate for this gain error. By adjusting the gain of each
multiplexer circuit the error can be reduced to the tolerance
of the resistors used (1% in this example).
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FIGURE 3. Multiplexer Gain Compensation
Disabling of the LMH6574 using the EN pin is not recommended for use when doing multiplexer expansion. While
disabled, If the voltage between the selected input and the
chip output exceeds approximately 2V the device will begin
to enter a soft breakdown state. This will show up as reduced
input to output isolation. The signal on the non-inverting
input of the output driver amplifier will leak through to the
inverting input, and then to the output through the feedback
resistor. The worst case is a gain of 1 configuration where
the non inverting input follows the active input buffer and
(through the feedback resistor) the inverting input follows the
voltage driving the output stage. The solution for this is to
use shutdown mode for multiplexer expansion.
BUILDING an 8:1 MULITPLEXER
Figure 4 shows an 8:1 MUX using two LMH6574’s.
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LMH6574
FIGURE 4. 8:1 MUX USING TWO LMH6574’s
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FIGURE 5. Delay Circuit Implementation
If it is important in the end application to make sure that no
two inputs are presented to the output at the same time, an
optional delay block can be added, to drive the SHUTDOWN
pin of each device, as shown. Figure 5 shows one possible
approach to this delay circuit. The delay circuit shown will
delay SHUTDOWN’s H to L transitions (R
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1
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but won’t delay its L to H transition. R
compared to R
in order to not reduce the SHUTDOWN
1
should be kept small
2
voltage and to produce little or no delay to SHUTDOWN.
Other Applications
The LMH6574 could support a multi antenna receiver with
up to four separate antennas. Monitoring the signal strength
of all 4 antennas and connecting the strongest signal to the
final IF stage would provide effective spacial diversity.
For direction finding, the LMH6574 could be used to provide
high speed sampling of four separate antennas to a single
DSP which would use the information to calculate the direction of the received signal.
DRIVING CAPACITIVE LOADS
Capacitive output loading applications will benefit from the
use of a series output resistor R
of a series output resistor, R
. Figure 6 shows the use
OUT
, to stabilize the amplifier
OUT
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output under capacitive loading. Capacitive loads of
5 to 120 pF are the most critical, causing ringing, frequency
response peaking and possible oscillation. The chart “Suggested R
selecting a series output resistor for mitigating capacitive
loads. The values suggested in the charts are selected for
0.5 dB or less of peaking in the frequency response. This
gives a good compromise between settling time and bandwidth. For applications where maximum frequency response
is needed and some peaking is tolerable, the value of R
can be reduced slightly from the recommended values.
vs. Cap Load” gives a recommended value for
OUT
OUT
LMH6574
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FIGURE 8. Frequency Response vs. Capacitive Load
FIGURE 6. Decoupling Capacitive Loads
FIGURE 7. Suggested R
vs. Capacitive Load
OUT
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LAYOUT CONSIDERATIONS
Whenever questions about layout arise, use the evaluation
board as a guide. The LMH730276 is the evaluation board
supplied with samples of the LMH6574. To reduce parasitic
capacitances, ground and power planes should be removed
near the input and output pins. For long signal paths controlled impedance lines should be used, along with impedance matching elements at both ends. Bypass capacitors
should be placed as close to the device as possible. Bypass
capacitors from each rail to ground are applied in pairs. The
larger electrolytic bypass capacitors can be located farther
from the device, the smaller ceramic capacitors should be
placed as close to the device as possible. In Figure 1, the
capacitor between V
+
and V−is optional, but is recommended for best second harmonic distortion. Another way to
enhance performance is to use pairs of 0.01µF and 0.1µF
ceramic capacitors for each supply bypass.
POWER DISSIPATION
The LMH6574 is optimized for maximum speed and performance in the small form factor of the standard SOIC package. To ensure maximum output drive and highest performance, thermal shutdown is not provided. Therefore, it is of
utmost importance to make sure that the T
JMAX
is never
exceeded due to the overall power dissipation.
Follow these steps to determine the Maximum power dissi-
pation for the LMH6574:
1. Calculate the quiescent (no-load) power: P
), where VS=V+-V−.
(V
S
AMP=ICC
2. Calculate the RMS power dissipated in the output stage:
(rms) = rms ((VS-V
P
D
are the voltage across and the current through the
I
OUT
external load and V
S
3. Calculate the total RMS power: P
)*I
OUT
), where V
OUT
is the total supply voltage.
T=PAMP+PD
OUT
and
.
The maximum power that the LMH6574 package can dissipate at a given temperature can be derived with the following
equation:
= (150˚ – T
P
MAX
ture (˚C) and θ
)/ θJA, where T
AMB
= Thermal resistance, from junction to
JA
= Ambient tempera-
AMB
ambient, for a given package (˚C/W). For the SOIC package
is 130 ˚C/W.
θ
JA
*
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ESD PROTECTION
LMH6574
The LMH6574 is protected against electrostatic discharge
(ESD) on all pins. The LMH6574 will survive 2000V Human
Body model and 200V Machine model events. Under normal
operation the ESD diodes have no effect on circuit performance. There are occasions, however, when the ESD di-
odes will be evident. If the LMH6574 is driven by a large
signal while the device is powered down the ESD diodes will
conduct . The current that flows through the ESD diodes will
either exit the chip through the supply pins or will flow
through the device, hence it is possible to power up a chip
with a large signal applied to the input pins. Using the
shutdown mode is one way to conserve power and still
prevent unexpected operation.
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