TL/H/7758
LM108/LM208/LM308 Operational Amplifiers
December 1994
LM108/LM208/LM308 Operational Amplifiers
General Description
The LM108 series are precision operational amplifiers having specifications a factor of ten better than FET amplifiers
over a
b
55§Ctoa125§C temperature range.
The devices operate with supply voltages fromg2V to
g
20V and have sufficient supply rejection to use unregulated supplies. Although the circuit is interchangeable with and
uses the same compensation as the LM101A, an alternate
compensation scheme can be used to make it particularly
insensitive to power supply noise and to make supply bypass capacitors unnecessary.
The low current error of the LM108 series makes possible
many designs that are not practical with conventional amplifiers. In fact, it operates from 10 MX source resistances,
introducing less error than devices like the 709 with 10 kX
sources. Integrators with drifts less than 500 mV/sec and
analog time delays in excess of one hour can be made using capacitors no larger than 1 mF.
The LM108 is guaranteed from
b
55§Ctoa125§C, the
LM208 from
b
25§Ctoa85§C, and the LM308 from 0§Cto
a
70§C.
Features
Y
Maximum input bias current of 3.0 nA over temperature
Y
Offset current less than 400 pA over temperature
Y
Supply current of only 300 mA, even in saturation
Y
Guaranteed drift characteristics
Compensation Circuits
Standard Compensation Circuit
C
f
t
R1 C
O
R1aR2
C
O
e
30 pF
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**Bandwidth and slew rate are proportional to 1/C
f
Alternate* Frequency Compensation
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*Improves rejection of power supply noise by a factor of ten.
**Bandwidth and slew rate are proportional to 1/C
s
Feedforward Compensation
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C
1995 National Semiconductor Corporation RRD-B30M115/Printed in U. S. A.