LMV2011
High Precision, Rail-to-Rail Output Operational Amplifier
LMV2011 High Precision, Rail-to-Rail Output Operational Amplifier
April 2004
General Description
The LMV2011 is a new precision amplifier that offers unprecedented accuracy and stability at an affordable price and is
offered in miniature (SOT23-5) package and in 8 lead SOIC
package. This device utilizes patented techniques to measure and continually correct the input offset error voltage.
The result is an amplifier which is ultra stable over time and
temperature. It has excellent CMRR and PSRR ratings, and
does not exhibit the familiar 1/f voltage and current noise
increase that plagues traditional amplifiers. The combination
of the LMV2011 characteristics makes it a good choice for
transducer amplifiers, high gain configurations, ADC buffer
amplifiers, DAC I-V conversion, and any other 2.7V-5V application requiring precision and long term stability.
Other useful benefits of the LMV2011 are rail-to-rail output, a
low supply current of 930µA, and wide gain-bandwidth product of 3MHz. These extremely versatile features found in the
LMV2011 provide high performance and ease of use.
Connection Diagrams
5-Pin SOT238-Pin SOIC
Features
(For Vs = 5V, Typical unless otherwise noted)
n Low Guaranteed V
n Low Noise with no 1/f35nV/
n High CMRR130dB
n High PSRR120dB
n High A
n Wide gain-bandwidth product3MHz
n High slew rate4V/µs
n Low supply current930µA
n Rail-to-rail output30mV
n No external capacitors required
VOL
over temperature35µV
os
130dB
Applications
n Precision Instrumentation Amplifiers
n Thermocouple Amplifiers
n Strain Gauge Bridge Amplifier
If Military/Aerospace specified devices are required,
LMV2011
please contact the National Semiconductor Sales Office/
Distributors for availability and specifications.
ESD Tolerance
Human Body Model2000V
Machine Model200V
Supply Voltage5.5V
Common-Mode Input Voltage −0.3≤ V
Differential Input Voltage
Current At Input Pin30mA
≤ VCC+0.3V
CM
±
Supply Voltage
Current At Output Pin30mA
Current At Power Supply Pin50mA
Junction Temperature (T
)150˚C
J
Lead Temperature (soldering
10 sec.)+300˚C
Operating Ratings (Note 1)
Supply Voltage2.7V to 5.25V
Storage Temperature Range−65˚C to 150˚C
Operating Temperature Range0˚C to 70˚C
2.7V DC Electrical Characteristics Unless otherwise specified, all limits guaranteed for T
= 2.7V, V-= 0V, VCM= 1.35V, VO= 1.35V and R
>
1MΩ. Boldface limits apply at the temperature extremes.
L
= 25˚C, V
J
SymbolParameterConditionsMinTypMaxUnits
V
OS
Input Offset Voltage0.825
35
Offset Calibration Time0.510
12
TCV
Input Offset Voltage0.015µV/˚C
OS
Long-Term Offset Drift0.006µV/month
Lifetime V
I
IN
I
OS
R
IND
Input Current-3pA
Input Offset Current6pA
Input Differential Resistance9MΩ
CMRRCommon Mode Rejection
Ratio
PSRRPower Supply Rejection
Ratio
A
VOL
Open Loop Voltage GainRL= 10kΩ13095
Drift2.55µV
OS
−0.3 ≤ V
0 ≤ V
CM
2.7V ≤ V
≤ 0.9V
CM
≤ 0.9V
+
≤ 5V12095
13095
90
90
90
=2kΩ12490
R
L
85
V
O
Output SwingRL= 10kΩ to 1.35V
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
2.665
2.655
2.68
0.0330.060
0.075
R
=2kΩ to 1.35V
L
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
2.630
2.615
2.65
0.0610.085
0.105
I
O
R
OUT
I
S
Output CurrentSourcing, VO=0V
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
Sinking, V
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
O
=5V
Output Impedance0.05Ω
Supply Current0.9191.20
125
185
3
mA
3
mA
1.50
+
µV
ms
dB
dB
dB
V
V
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2.7V AC Electrical CharacteristicsT
>
1MΩ. Boldface limits apply at the temperature extremes.
= 25˚C, V+= 2.7V, V-= 0V, VCM= 1.35V, VO= 1.35V, and R
J
SymbolParameterConditionsMinTypMaxUnits
GBWGain-Bandwidth Product3MHz
SRSlew Rate4V/µs
θ
m
G
m
e
n
Phase Margin60Deg
Gain Margin−14dB
Input-Referred Voltage
35nV/
Noise
i
n
Input-Referred Current
150fA/
Noise
enp-pInput-Referred Voltage
RS= 100Ω, DC to 10Hz850nV
Noise
t
rec
Input Overload Recovery
50ms
Time
t
s
Output Settling TimeAV= −1, RL=2kΩ
1V Step
1%0.9µs
0.1%49
0.01%100
5V DC Electrical Characteristics Unless otherwise specified, all limits guaranteed for T
-
= 0V, VCM= 2.5V, VO= 2.5V and R
5V, V
>
1MΩ. Boldface limits apply at the temperature extremes.
L
= 25˚C, V+=
J
SymbolParameterConditionsMinTypMaxUnits
V
OS
Input Offset Voltage0.1225
µV
35
Offset Calibration Time0.510
ms
12
TCV
Input Offset Voltage0.015µV/˚C
OS
Long-Term Offset Drift0.006µV/month
Lifetime V
I
IN
I
OS
R
IND
Input Current-3pA
Input Offset Current6pA
Input Differential Resistance9MΩ
CMRRCommon Mode Rejection
Ratio
PSRRPower Supply Rejection
Ratio
A
VOL
Open Loop Voltage GainRL= 10kΩ130105
Drift2.55µV
OS
−0.3 ≤ V
0 ≤ V
CM
2.7V ≤ V
≤ 3.2
CM
≤ 3.2
+
≤ 5V12095
130100
90
90
100
RL=2kΩ13295
dB
dB
dB
90
V
O
Output SwingRL= 10kΩ to 2.5V
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
4.96
4.95
4.978
0.0400.070
V
0.085
R
=2kΩ to 2.5V
L
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
4.895
4.875
4.919
0.0910.115
V
0.140
I
O
Output CurrentSourcing, VO=0V
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
Sinking, V
(diff) =±0.5V
V
IN
O
=5V
158
178
6
mA
6
L
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5V DC Electrical Characteristics Unless otherwise specified, all limits guaranteed for T
-
= 0V, VCM= 2.5V, VO= 2.5V and R
5V, V
>
1MΩ. Boldface limits apply at the temperature extremes. (Continued)
L
= 25˚C, V+=
J
LMV2011
SymbolParameterConditionsMinTypMaxUnits
R
OUT
I
S
Output Impedance0.05Ω
Supply Current per Channel0.9301.20
1.50
mA
5V AC Electrical Characteristics T
= 25˚C, V+= 5V, V-= 0V, VCM= 2.5V, VO= 2.5V, and R
J
>
L
1MΩ. Boldface limits apply at the temperature extremes.
SymbolParameterConditionsMinTypMaxUnits
GBWGain-Bandwidth Product3MHz
SRSlew Rate4V/µs
θ
m
G
m
e
n
Phase Margin60deg
Gain Margin−15dB
Input-Referred Voltage
35nV/
Noise
i
n
Input-Referred Current
150fA/
Noise
enp-pInput-Referred Voltage
RS= 100Ω, DC to 10Hz850nV
Noise
t
rec
Input Overload Recovery
50ms
Time
t
s
Output Settling TimeAV= −1, RL=2kΩ
1V Step
1%0.8us
0.1%36
0.01%100
Note 1: Absolute Maximum Ratings indicate limits beyond which damage may occur. Operating Ratings indicate conditions for which the device is intended to be
functional, but specific performance is not guaranteed. For guaranteed specifications and test conditions, see the Electrical Characteristics.
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Typical Performance Characteristics
TA=25C, VS= 5V unless otherwise specified.
Supply Current vs. Supply VoltageOffset Voltage vs. Supply Voltage
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Offset Voltage vs. Common ModeOffset Voltage vs. Common Mode
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Voltage Noise vs. FrequencyInput Bias Current vs. Common Mode
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Typical Performance Characteristics (Continued)
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PSRR vs. FrequencyPSRR vs. Frequency
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Output Sourcing@2.7VOutput Sourcing@5V
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Output Sinking@2.7VOutput Sinking@5V
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Typical Performance Characteristics (Continued)
Max Output Swing vs. Supply VoltageMax Output Swing vs. Supply Voltage
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Min Output Swing vs. Supply VoltageMin Output Swing vs. Supply Voltage
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CMRR vs. FrequencyOpen Loop Gain and Phase vs. Supply Voltage
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Typical Performance Characteristics (Continued)
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Open Loop Gain and Phase vs. R
Open Loop Gain and Phase vs. C
@
2.7VOpen Loop Gain and Phase vs. R
L
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@
2.7VOpen Loop Gain and Phase vs. C
L
@
5V
L
@
5V
L
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Open Loop Gain and Phase vs. Temperature@2.7VOpen Loop Gain and Phase vs. Temperature@5V
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THD+N vs. AMPLTHD+N vs. Frequency
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0.1Hz − 10Hz Noise vs. Time
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Application Information
THE BENEFITS OF LMV2011
LMV2011
NO 1/f NOISE
Using patented methods, the LMV2011 eliminates the 1/f
noise present in other amplifiers. That noise, which increases as frequency decreases, is a major source of measurement error in all DC-coupled measurements. Lowfrequency noise appears as a constantly-changing signal in
series with any measurement being made. As a result, even
when the measurement is made rapidly, this constantlychanging noise signal will corrupt the result. The value of this
noise signal can be surprisingly large. For example: If a
conventional amplifier has a flat-band noise level of 10nV/
and a noise corner of 10Hz, the RMS noise at 0.001Hz
is 1µV/
error, in the frequency range 0.001 Hz to 1.0 Hz. In a circuit
with a gain of 1000, this produces a 0.50mV peak-to-peak
output error. This number of 0.001 Hz might appear unreasonably low, but when a data acquisition system is operating
for 17 minutes, it has been on long enough to include this
error. In this same time, the LMV2011 will only have a
0.21mV output error. This is smaller by 2.4 x. Keep in mind
that this 1/f error gets even larger at lower frequencies. At the
extreme, many people try to reduce this error by integrating
or taking several samples of the same signal. This is also
doomed to failure because the 1/f nature of this noise means
that taking longer samples just moves the measurement into
lower frequencies where the noise level is even higher.
The LMV2011 eliminates this source of error. The noise level
is constant with frequency so that reducing the bandwidth
reduces the errors caused by noise.
Another source of error that is rarely mentioned is the error
voltage caused by the inadvertent thermocouples created
when the common "Kovar type" IC package lead materials
are soldered to a copper printed circuit board. These steelbased leadframe materials can produce over 35µV/˚C when
soldered onto a copper trace. This can result in thermocouple noise that is equal to the LMV2011 noise when there
is a temperature difference of only 0.0014˚C between the
lead and the board!
For this reason, the lead-frame of the LMV2011 is made of
copper. This results in equal and opposite junctions which
cancel this effect. The extremely small size of the SOT-23
package results in the leads being very close together. This
further reduces the probability of temperature differences
and hence decreases thermal noise.
OVERLOAD RECOVERY
The LMV2011 recovers from input overload much faster than
most chopper-stabilized opamps. Recovery from driving the
amplifier to 2X the full scale output, only requires about
40ms. Many chopper-stabilized amplifiers will take from
250ms to several seconds to recover from this same overload. This is because large capacitors are used to store the
unadjusted offset voltage.
. This is equivalent to a 0.50µV peak-to-peak
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FIGURE 1.
The wide bandwidth of the LMV2011 enhances performance
when it is used as an amplifier to drive loads that inject
transients back into the output. ADCs (Analog-to-Digital Converters) and multiplexers are examples of this type of load.
To simulate this type of load, a pulse generator producing a
1V peak square wave was connected to the output through a
10pF capacitor. (Figure 1) The typical time for the output to
recover to 1% of the applied pulse is 80ns. To recover to
0.1% requires 860ns. This rapid recovery is due to the wide
bandwidth of the output stage and large total GBW.
NO EXTERNAL CAPACITORS REQUIRED
The LMV2011 does not need external capacitors. This eliminates the problems caused by capacitor leakage and dielectric absorption, which can cause delays of several seconds
from turn-on until the amplifier’s error has settled.
MORE BENEFITS
The LMV2011 offers the benefits mentioned above and
more. It has a rail-to-rail output and consumes only 950µA of
supply current while providing excellent DC and AC electrical
performance. In DC performance, the LMC2001 achieves
130dB of CMRR, 120dB of PSRR and 130dB of open loop
gain. In AC performance, the LMV2011 provides 3MHz of
gain-bandwidth product and 4V/µs of slew rate.
HOW THE LMV2011 WORKS
The LMV2011 uses new, patented techniques to achieve the
high DC accuracy traditionally associated with chopperstabilized amplifiers without the major drawbacks produced
by chopping. The LMV2011 continuously monitors the input
offset and corrects this error. The conventional chopping
process produces many mixing products, both sums and
differences, between the chopping frequency and the incoming signal frequency. This mixing causes large amounts of
distortion, particularly when the signal frequency approaches
the chopping frequency. Even without an incoming signal,
the chopper harmonics mix with each other to produce even
more trash. If this sounds unlikely or difficult to understand,
look at the plot (Figure 2), of the output of a typical (MAX432)
chopper-stabilized opamp. This is the output when there is
no incoming signal, just the amplifier in a gain of -10 with the
input grounded. The chopper is operating at about 150Hz;
the rest is mixing products. Add an input signal and the noise
gets much worse. Compare this plot with Figure 3 of the
LMV2011. This data was taken under the exact same conditions. The auto-zero action is visible at about 30kHz but
note the absence of mixing products at other frequencies. As
a result, the LMV2011 has very low distortion of 0.02% and
very low mixing products.
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FIGURE 2.
LMV2011
PRECISION STRAIN-GAUGE AMPLIFIER
This Strain-Gauge amplifier (Figure 4) provides high gain
(1006 or~60 dB) with very low offset and drift. Using the
resistors’ tolerances as shown, the worst case CMRR will be
greater than 108 dB. The CMRR is directly related to the
resistor mismatch. The rejection of common-mode error, at
the output, is independent of the differential gain, which is
set by R3. The CMRR is further improved, if the resistor ratio
matching is improved, by specifying tighter-tolerance resistors, or by trimming.
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FIGURE 3.
INPUT CURRENTS
The LMV2011’s input currents are different than standard
bipolar or CMOS input currents in that it appears as a current
flowing in one input and out the other. Under most operating
conditions, these currents are in the picoamp level and will
have little or no effect in most circuits. These currents tend to
increase slightly when the common-mode voltage is near the
minus supply. (See the typical curves.) At high temperatures
such as 85˚C, the input currents become larger, 0.5nA typical, and are both positive except when the V
is near V−.If
CM
operation is expected at low common-mode voltages and
high temperature, do not add resistance in series with the
inputs to balance the impedances. Doing this can cause an
increase in offset voltage. A small resistance such as 1kΩ
can provide some protection against very large transients or
overloads, and will not increase the offset significantly.
FIGURE 4.
Extending Supply Voltages and Output Swing by Using
a Composite Amplifier Configuration:
In cases where substantially higher output swing is required
with higher supply voltages, arrangements like the ones
shown in Figure 5 and Figure 6 could be used. These
configurations utilize the excellent DC performance of the
LMV2011 while at the same time allow the superior voltage
and frequency capabilities of the LM6171 to set the dynamic
performance of the overall amplifier. For example, it is pos-
±
sible to achieve
GBW (A
due to V
V
OS
12V output swing with 300MHz of overall
= 100) while keeping the worst case output shift
less than 4mV. The LMV2011 output voltage is
kept at about mid-point of its overall supply voltage, and its
input common mode voltage range allows the V- terminal to
be grounded in one case (Figure 5, inverting operation) and
tied to a small non-critical negative bias in another (Figure 6,
non-inverting operation). Higher closed-loop gains are also
possible with a corresponding reduction in realizable bandwidth. Table 1 shows some other closed loop gain possibilities along with the measured performance in each case.
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FIGURE 5.
TABLE 1. Composite Amplifier Measured Performance
AVR1
R2ΩC2pFBW
Ω
MHzSR(V/µs)
en p-p
(mV
PP
)
5020010k83.317837
10010010k102.517470
1001k100k0.673.117070
500200100k1.751.496250
1000100100k2.20.9864400
In terms of the measured output peak-to-peak noise, the
following relationship holds between output noise voltage, e
p-p, for different closed-loop gain, AV, settings, where −3dB
Bandwidth is BW:
FIGURE 6.
It should be kept in mind that in order to minimize the output
noise voltage for a given closed-loop gain setting, one could
minimize the overall bandwidth. As can be seen from Equation 1 above, the output noise has a square-root relationship
to the Bandwidth.
In the case of the inverting configuration, it is also possible to
increase the input impedance of the overall amplifier, by
raising the value of R1, without having to increase the feedback resistor, R2, to impractical values, by utilizing a "Tee"
network as feedback. See the LMC6442 data sheet (Application Notes section) for more details on this.
n
FIGURE 7.
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LMV2011 AS ADC INPUT AMPLIFIER
The LMV2011 is a great choice for an amplifier stage immediately before the input of an ADC (Analog-to-Digital Converter), whether AC or DC coupled. See Figure 7 and Figure
8. This is because of the following important characteristics:
A) Very low offset voltage and offset voltage drift over time
and temperature allow a high closed-loop gain setting
without introducing any short-term or long-term errors.
For example, when set to a closed-loop gain of 100 as
the analog input amplifier for a 12-bit A/D converter, the
overall conversion error over full operation temperature
and 30 years life of the part (operating at 50˚C) would be
less than 5 LSBs.
B) Fast large-signal settling time to 0.01% of final value
(1.4µs) allows 12 bit accuracy at 100KH
pling rate.
C) No flicker (1/f) noise means unsurpassed data accuracy
over any measurement period of time, no matter how
long. Consider the following opamp performance, based
on a typical low-noise, high-performance commerciallyavailable device, for comparison:
Opamp flatband noise = 8nV/
or more sam-
Z
1/f corner frequency = 100Hz
= 2000
A
V
Measurement time = 100 sec
Bandwidth = 2Hz
This example will result in about 2.2 mV
(1.9 LSB) of
PP
output noise contribution due to the opamp alone, compared to about 594µV
(less than 0.5 LSB) when that
PP
opamp is replaced with the LMV2011 which has no 1/f
contribution. If the measurement time is increased from
100 seconds to 1 hour, the improvement realized by
using the LMV2011 would be a factor of about 4.8 times
(2.86mV
compared to 596µV when LMV2011 is used)
PP
mainly because the LMV2011 accuracy is not compromised by increasing the observation time.
D) Copper leadframe construction minimizes any thermo-
couple effects which would degrade low level/high gain
data conversion application accuracy (see discussion
under "The Benefits of the LMV2011" section above).
E) Rail-to-Rail output swing maximizes the ADC dynamic
range in 5-Volt single-supply converter applications. Below are some typical block diagrams showing the
LMV2011 used as an ADC amplifier (Figure 7 and Figure
LMV2011 High Precision, Rail-to-Rail Output Operational Amplifier
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