Questions tagged [differential]
Differential refers to any kind of signaling where the signal information is carried by two or more paths and both are required to properly reconstruct the signal. For example, USB D+ and D-
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Differential Opamp Strange Behavior
I have no answer for this strange opamp behavior. The circuit shown is from a typical nonisolated ,Non grid-tie inverter product (imagine H bridge Inverter). which has a common -ve high power circuit ...
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Differential to single ended - Design bluetooth for car stereo
I'm trying to install bluetooth to my car through cassette tape deck(aux already installed).
So I find board with CSR8675 which supports APTX-HD
https://www.aliexpress.com/item/-/32817838770.html
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LIN to RS485 and back to LIN
I am currently communicating between two microcontrollers using a single pin and the LIN protocol over a short distance of 0.2m. Now I would like to extend the distance up to 5m by differentially ...
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1st order differential circuit RL
Im trying to use KVL to solve the differential equation.
My Attempt so far is the following:
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Differential Clocking resistor and capacitor choices
I am working on generating a 2MHz differential clock signal for a DDS chip. I have been given a PCB with a design that I am unsure can work or what the thought was behind it. If anyone could help with ...
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Terminating Unidirectional Differential Signal
In a project I'm working on, I'm planning to use the SN75174 to send a signal through about 30m of twisted pair. This signal has a bitrate of around 1Mbps (it's a signal to drive WS2811 LEDs,) and ...
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Differential amplifier amplifier design [on hold]
I have a problem with the project of a differential amplifier that the teacher gives me. I have to do an amplifier with 3 stages: the first is a differential pair, the second is a common emitter and ...
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Does LVDS always need 100 ohm differential impedance?
LVDS pairs need 100 ohms differential impedance. However, I am having trouble achieving that in my design.
My design requires that the pairs travel over very thin flexible PCB, about 50mm total ...
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RS485 Waveform while Receiving Data
I was testing the RS485 Circuit, below is my circuit and I connect J5 to my PC using another RS485 to USB converter. In PC through Modscan software I was monitoring the polling and response, a twisted ...
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Virtual Short Concept in an Op-Amp
By virtue of the open-loop gain being infinity for an ideal op-amp, the two input terminals are said to be virtually shorted.
Yet, the virtual short concept is only applied to op-amps in negative ...
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How to measure a 100 ohm differential signal on a spectrum analyzer?
I have a pair of 1.5V PCML differential signals coming out of an Altera Cyclone V GX FPGA, terminated on the FPGA in 100 ohms with common mode voltage = 0.65V (also provided on the chip).
I need to ...
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Differential signal isolation
In differential signal circuits (specifically, RS-485), there is usually an isolation between the signal processing / generation stage (eg, microprocessor) and the line driver chip (something like a ...
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Differential to single ended audio signal
I'm working on an interface that will be connected instead of a speaker, input of my interface is differential, and output is single ended.
I'm using the following schematics :
R3 is the load to ...
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I need to find Vin max(Common Mode) and min(common mode) for given circuit.
please let me know how i can proceed with this circuit
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Via size on PCB to maintain impedance for differential signals? [duplicate]
I have a question regarding impedance control and vias. What should the via size be to maintain the 100 Ohm impedance for differential signals on a pcb?
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Why does LVDS (or any differential signaling for that matter) use a common mode voltage of 1.2V instead of 0V?
Why does LVDS (or any differential signaling for that matter) use a common mode voltage of 1.2V instead of 0V?
Is there an easy way to shift the common mode voltage to 0V?
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What is a good way to add a programable offset to a diffential signal?
I have an AC coupled, ~10 MHz to 1 GHz, differential signal, with a programmable gain, coming from a detector. The signal contain pulses, and the DC-balance is poor but constant (even if my hand ...
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Does Differential Amplifier Emitter behave as ground in AC-analysis?
I am trying to solve various differential-amplifier homework problems for which I have the solution to study.
For the simplicity of most problems we are able to neglect base-currents. Moreover, it ...
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Microstrip and CPWG transitions on PCB
I've been doing some simple RF boards as part of an internship in a lab, mainly to test particular ICs and prototyping, and mainly using coplanar waveguides.
I've now been tasked with designing a ...
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How do you model differential inductor in LTspice?
I wonder how I can model a differential inductor in LTspice?
I've an inductor that has half the turns on one side and the other half on the other side.
It's intended to be used in a bridge tied ...
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Need to convert unbalanced to differential input OPAMP
I have the following filter after the DAC chip (currently with unbalanced outputs) working very well, but I need now to change the DAC chip. The new source has differential outputs.
Is there a ...
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Differential impedance calculations for non symmetric dielectrics
So I'm able to calculate differential impedance on the top and bottom layers of a 12 layer rigid-flex design I'm working on, but I'm not confident about my calculation for a few internal differential ...
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LAN9512 differential wire routing on PCB
Using the Saturn PCB Tool (V7.05 - calculation method IPC-2152 - Etch Factor 1:1), in order to achieve a 90 ohm differential line with a single line impedance equal to 50 ohm for a design based on the ...
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OTA design, the Gm won't go down to zero
I'm trying to simulate a pseudo-differential OTA, but the the Gm vs Vin(differential) plot I obtain seems warped. The Gm won't go down to zero for large values of Vin.
attached is the circuit ...
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GPS L5C Differential? Max Update Rate(bits/s|Hz)?
The differential GPS chips use L1 and L2C to calculate the ionospheric interference.
With the new GPS satellites, the new band L5C is being deployed, and I am wondering about the following things:
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Differential amplifier and large signal analysis
Let's consider this circuit:
Razavi makes the large signal analysis in the ideal case, that is with an ideal current generator. He shows that Ic1, Ic2, Vout1, Vout2 and (Vout1 - Vout2) are function ...
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Differential amplifier and differential signals in small signal analyses
I'm studying the differential amplifier on different books (Razavi and Sedra-Smith).
I've understood how this circuit works, but I have some questions. When authors analyze this circuit (2 identical ...
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Differential amplifier circuit - output voltage
I have a homework problem.
We have a differential amplifier circuit with two supply sources: \$V_{CC}=-V_{EE}=5V\$, that has two identical NPN transistors and three identical resistors. T2's base ...
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SPI with differential signaling
Standard SPI uses single-ended signals. Is it possible that a communication uses SPI protocol but the signals are physically LVDS?
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Input filter on differential amplifier input
Hi, I need to determine the transfer function Vout/Vin. A traditional differential amplifier transfer function without the 2.2uF on the input side would be G1 = (Z2/Z1)*Vin, where Z2 = (2.2uF // ...
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Single ended to differential conversion with voltage divider
Let's assume I have an AD-converter that expects a differential signal with zero common mode voltage and I want to connect a single ended signal source.
If the AD has it's own isolated ground, couldn'...
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Differential amplifier circuit, problem with saturation
I have a homework problem regarding differential amplifier.
We have a differential amplifier with symmetric supply (i.e. \$V_{CC}=-V_{EE}\$).
Emitters are connected to a perfect current source \...
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Differential Amplifier constant output voltage
SE-Members,
The past few days i've been figuring out why my circuit does not work.
It is a simple differential amplifier with a gain of 2.
The OpAmp is the "TLE2027CDR".
My problem: The output voltage ...
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Finding Drain voltage of current mirror
Below I have a current mirror loaded differential amplifier. Can somebody please Just give me an idea of how to find the drain voltage, vd8. I am stuck because I don't see the relationships that can ...
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USB differential signal from single pin?
I'd like to make a device similar to the "Digispark", but what really bugs me about those (and most, if not all, V-USB designs, at least all I could find online), is the "waste" of a GPIO pin which is ...
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Differential amplifier - transfer characteristic question
I have a question regarding differential amplifier's transfer characteristic.
If we have a circuit like this (note that \$V_{1}=-V_{2}\$, hence \$V_{cm}=0V\$):
the transfer characteristic for \$V_{...
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Can one voltage output from OpAmp read with two ADC inputs?
this might be a little silly question, but please advise me. I am trying to use two photodiodes (one for the absorbance measurement and one for the source of the light as a reference) and the voltage ...
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Effects of increasing current on external noise and SNR for analog transmission
This is a conceptual question about long analog signal transmission exposed to capacitive coupling and EMI noise as shown in below figures:
simulate this circuit – Schematic created using ...
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Effect of large capacitor for differential channel in S-parameter simulation
I have created a differential channel with Transmission line and interconnects for simulation. In the real channel, there is 100nF capacitor in between 2 transmission lines. Now the problem is when I ...
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Gain problem of inverting opamp
I'm implementing the circuit in the schematic on the breadboard.
Difference of inputs V1 and V2 is about 5mV.
Differential opamp has gain of 17,4
Inverting opamp has gain of 26
First problem: I ...
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differential routing without GND
I have task that I need to make adapter board which transforms gigabit ethernet connector RJ45 to another connector (not RJ45). I also have power connector to carry power one side to other.
I need ...
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Finding a range for a common mode signal
I have the question below
Here is the figure they are talking about:
(Text and images from: "Microelectronic Circuits" book by Sedra/Smith, 7th edition, chapter 9)
Here are the answers to the ...
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Is there such a thing as a fully differential line driver?
I'm looking to find something similar to the TI drv134 (http://www.ti.com/lit/ds/symlink/drv134.pdf), but then with differential inputs instead of single ended.
Is there even such a thing? I can't ...
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What is the physical meaning of the voltage across an inductor in the Laplace domain?
In my Electrical Engineering degree I recently learned how to analyse circuits using Laplace transforms and I know that the Laplace transform of the voltage across an inductor is \$V_L(s) =s*L*I(s) - ...
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Solving the differential equation in control system engineering
While I am continuing my studies of the Norman S. Nise book about Control System Engineering, and while trying to solve exercises of chapter 1, I noticed that I am out of the scope of solving ...
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Classic transistor differential amplifier - problem with a single-ended output
I have a differential amplifier like at the pic below:
And I am not sure if I am doing everything right.
We know that the input signal is a triangle wave with \$ V_{pp}>100\text{mV}\$, no offset ...
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How can I bias this Differential amp. circuit at the best operating point?
I'm looking to find a way to bias this circuit:
I've written down a couple of equations for DC load line(and also DC half circuit):
and these two as AC Load line:
Rc is given by 1K and you can see ...
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Calculating Characteristic Impedance of Jumper Wire
I'm conducting a test of the LTC490 driver/receiver (http://www.analog.com/media/en/technical-documentation/data-sheets/490fb.pdf), using a small incremental encoder.
I'll make the connections using ...
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How is differential signalling AC?
My initial understanding was that each differential signal (such as those used for encoders, e.g. A and inverse of A) travels along its own line and is unconnected to its inverse, etc.
However, I've ...
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differential ADC with a potentiometer in the positive input and grounded negative input
i have a problem in reading values from ads1672(datasheet). i setup this circuit:
the Reference voltage is +3.V (REF5030-TI page)
when potentiometer is @ +1.6V (i measured this by multi-meter) this ...
