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Daniele Tampieri
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After a reading your question and having a quick look at the datasheets of the NCS333SN, I am sure that the problem is the heavy capacitive loading of the amplifier by the DMN1019. The two details motivate my belief

  1. The "Dynamic performance" parameter table at pagep. 6 states in each entry (apart from the slew rate SR entry) a value \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$ for the load capacitance. This suggests that it is not advisable to increase too much beyond that limit the load capacitance.
  2. When you have a look at the "Typical characteristics" section, looking at figure 1, p. 7, you notice that the nice phase margin at \$f=f_T\$ of the amplifier is a more than respectable \$\phi_M\simeq 60^\circ\$ but again when the load capacitance is \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$. And if look at figure 13, p. 9, you noticesee that the small signal overshoot is over \$60\%\$ when \$C_L=1000\mathrm{pF}\$.

Since the typical gate capacitance of the DMN1019 is \$C_\mathrm{G}>2500\mathrm{pF}\$, we'll surely find troubles if we connect the OpAmp output directly to it: and even using a series gate resistor may not giveget you any resultout of troubles, if this resistor is significantly lowlower respect to e.g. the standard load stated for the slew rate test, i.e. \$R_L=10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$, as you have noticed with your testtests.

What could you do?

  1. Since you use the MOSFET as a means for discharging a supercarsupercap when the voltage across isit starts to rise above the safe \$2.5\mathrm{V}\$ level, you do not need to be particularly fast in turning it on. Therefore you could try to put a  \$10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$ gate resistor and see if the amplifier remains stable.
  2. Otherwise, if you desire to have nevertheless a quick response, you should try to find an optimal value for the gate resistor  \$R_\mathrm{G}\$, by starting from \$R_\mathrm{G}=1000\Omega\$ and rising it until the circuit is stable for all desired resistor loads.

Final note

Following mkeith's comment above, I think is a very good idea to find a low voltage comparator and use it instead of the NCS333: despite their topologicalcircuit topology can be (also very) similar, OpAmps and comparators cannot be useused interchangeably without any care. Just to give some examples, devices like TLV3691 or NCS2200 could be a nice choice.

After a reading your question and having a quick look at the datasheets of the NCS333SN I am sure that the problem is the heavy capacitive loading of the amplifier by the DMN1019. The two details motivate my belief

  1. The "Dynamic performance" parameter table at page 6 states in each entry (apart from the slew rate SR entry) a value \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$ for the load capacitance. This suggests that it is not advisable to increase too much beyond that limit the load capacitance.
  2. When you have a look at the "Typical characteristics" section, looking at figure 1, p. 7, you notice that the nice phase margin at \$f=f_T\$ of the amplifier is a more than respectable \$\phi_M\simeq 60^\circ\$ but again when the load capacitance is \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$. And if look at figure 13, p. 9, you notice that the small signal overshoot is over \$60\%\$ when \$C_L=1000\mathrm{pF}\$.

Since the typical gate capacitance of the DMN1019 is \$C_\mathrm{G}>2500\mathrm{pF}\$, we'll surely find troubles if we connect the OpAmp output directly to it: and even using a series gate resistor may not give you any result, if this resistor is significantly low respect to e.g. the standard load stated for the slew rate test, i.e. \$R_L=10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$, as you have noticed with your test.

What could you do?

  1. Since you use the MOSFET as a means for discharging a supercar when the voltage across is starts to rise above the safe \$2.5\mathrm{V}\$ level, you do not need to be particularly fast in turning it on. Therefore you could try to put a  \$10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$ gate resistor and see if the amplifier remains stable.
  2. Otherwise, if you desire to have nevertheless a quick response, you should try to find an optimal value for the gate resistor  \$R_\mathrm{G}\$, starting from \$R_\mathrm{G}=1000\Omega\$ and rising it until the circuit is stable for all desired resistor loads.

Final note

Following mkeith's comment above, I think is a very good idea to find a low voltage comparator and use it instead of the NCS333: despite their topological can be (also very) similar, OpAmps and comparators cannot be use interchangeably.

After a reading your question and having a quick look at the datasheets of the NCS333SN, I am sure that the problem is the heavy capacitive loading of the amplifier by the DMN1019. The two details motivate my belief

  1. The "Dynamic performance" parameter table at p. 6 states in each entry (apart from the slew rate SR entry) a value \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$ for the load capacitance. This suggests that it is not advisable to increase too much beyond that limit the load capacitance.
  2. When you have a look at the "Typical characteristics" section, looking at figure 1, p. 7, you notice that the nice phase margin at \$f=f_T\$ of the amplifier is a more than respectable \$\phi_M\simeq 60^\circ\$ but again when the load capacitance is \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$. And if look at figure 13, p. 9, you see that the small signal overshoot is over \$60\%\$ when \$C_L=1000\mathrm{pF}\$.

Since the typical gate capacitance of the DMN1019 is \$C_\mathrm{G}>2500\mathrm{pF}\$, we'll surely find troubles if we connect the OpAmp output directly to it: and even using a series gate resistor may not get you out of troubles, if this resistor is significantly lower respect to e.g. the standard load stated for the slew rate test, i.e. \$R_L=10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$, as you have noticed with your tests.

What could you do?

  1. Since you use the MOSFET as a means for discharging a supercap when the voltage across it starts to rise above the safe \$2.5\mathrm{V}\$ level, you do not need to be particularly fast in turning it on. Therefore you could try to put a \$10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$ gate resistor and see if the amplifier remains stable.
  2. Otherwise, if you desire to have nevertheless a quick response, you should try to find an optimal value for the gate resistor \$R_\mathrm{G}\$, by starting from \$R_\mathrm{G}=1000\Omega\$ and rising it until the circuit is stable for all desired resistor loads.

Final note

Following mkeith's comment above, I think is a very good idea to find a low voltage comparator and use it instead of the NCS333: despite their circuit topology can be (also very) similar, OpAmps and comparators cannot be used interchangeably without any care. Just to give some examples, devices like TLV3691 or NCS2200 could be a nice choice.

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Daniele Tampieri
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After a reading your question and having a quick look at the datasheets of the NCS333SN I am sure that the problem is the heavy capacitive loading of the amplifier by the DMN1019. The two details motivate my belief

  1. The "Dynamic performance" parameter table at page 6 states in each entry (apart from the slew rate SR entry) a value \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$ for the load capacitance. This suggests that it is not advisable to increase too much beyond that limit the load capacitance.
  2. When you have a look at the "Typical characteristics" section, looking at figure 1, p. 7, you notice that the nice phase margin at \$f=f_T\$ of the amplifier is a more than respectable \$\phi_M\simeq 60^\circ\$ but again when the load capacitance is \$C_L=100\mathrm{pF}\$. And if look at figure 13, p. 9, you notice that the small signal overshoot is over \$60\%\$ when \$C_L=1000\mathrm{pF}\$.

Since the typical gate capacitance of the DMN1019 is \$C_\mathrm{G}>2500\mathrm{pF}\$, we'll surely find troubles if we connect the OpAmp output directly to it: and even using a series gate resistor may not give you any result, if this resistor is significantly low respect to e.g. the standard load stated for the slew rate test, i.e. \$R_L=10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$, as you have noticed with your test.

What could you do?

  1. Since you use the MOSFET as a means for discharging a supercar when the voltage across is starts to rise above the safe \$2.5\mathrm{V}\$ level, you do not need to be particularly fast in turning it on. Therefore you could try to put a \$10\mathrm{k\Omega}\$ gate resistor and see if the amplifier remains stable.
  2. Otherwise, if you desire to have nevertheless a quick response, you should try to find an optimal value for the gate resistor \$R_\mathrm{G}\$, starting from \$R_\mathrm{G}=1000\Omega\$ and rising it until the circuit is stable for all desired resistor loads.

Final note

Following mkeith's comment above, I think is a very good idea to find a low voltage comparator and use it instead of the NCS333: despite their topological can be (also very) similar, OpAmps and comparators cannot be use interchangeably.