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Input resistance of an instrumentation amplifier [closed]

I have a following problem: Calculate the input resistance of an instrumentation amplifier in the circuit given below I also need to change the circuit so that the differential output signal becomes ...
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Output-Z (electret) higher than Input-Z (preamp)

What happens if an electret microphone capsule (JFET in catridge) is connected to a preamp with considerably lower input impedance than the capsule's output impedance itself? ECM output Z: 2.2K Preamp ...
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NE5532 as a Guitar Pedal Buffer

I’ve been trying to better understand the NE5532 and wanted to try designing some circuits with it. I wanted to do a dual-supply non-inverting guitar pedal buffer, but I’m concerned about the input ...
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Complex Input Impedance of Autotransformer with Complex Load

I am interested in the input impedance Zin of an autotransformer with coupling k and complex load Z1 as shown in the picture. Does anyone know how this can be calculated? This is what I tried so far. ...
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RF amplifier class A

I have simulated a class A RF amplifier. When I simulated the output impedance, it is around 50 Ω for the frequency range that is of interest (50 kHz to 100 MHz), now at the input impedance is around ...
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What is the standard form for writing the second order transfer function for Input impedance?

When writing the transfer function for a system, the Characteristic equation in the denominator which carries information about the poles of the system is equated with the standard second order ...
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What is the resistance of this equivalent-circuit?

In order to cofigure an ADC, I need to know the input resistance to the ADC Pin of a uC, designated as R_source in the following equivalent circuit: From ...
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Computing input resistance of two common-base configurations

When computing the input resistance of this common base configuration, the collector current \$I_C\$ is approximated as equal to the emitter current \$I_E\$: simulate this circuit – Schematic ...
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Does high pin impedance affect the need for resistors?

I'm designing a brushless motor controller as a hobby project. I'm using the MP6538 gate driver (datasheet here: 1), and I have some questions about pin impedance and whether or not resistors are ...
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Can I pull down with 5V logic a not-level shifted (which is at 2.8V logic pulled-up) input? How to pull it up to 2.8V again, with no level-shifters?

I have a Distance sensor which has an enable pin (XSHUT pin in the diagram) which is pulled high in its own PCB module at 2.8V, to enable it to work. My Attiny85 MCU, which controls the sensor, is at ...
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How to derive transistor input impedance?

Given the following circuit, When Ro is not infinite, from the book, ZB is given as, However, when it's infinite, the input impedance is easily obtained as the parallel combination of RB and β(re+RE)...
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Transistor Re Model Input/Output Analysis

I have been trying to derive Av , Ai , Zi , Zo from a two port system model of a transistor. I know that the input voltage must be the voltage at the base to ground, and the output is from collector ...
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Weired result of Ltspice Zin measurement, Phase shift of -104°

I am trying to measure the input impedance of this amplifier to design a matching network for it. But the input impedance I get has a phase of -104° at the frequency of interest. I thought that Phase ...
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Input resistance of an inverter op-amp circuit

I need to find the input resistance of this circuit. There are two parts of this exercise: The first one is to find the input resistance of the circuit without the capacitor. The second is to the ...
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Input resistance of an op-amp circuit

I need to find the input resistance of this circuit. There are two parts of this exercise: The first one is to find the input resistance of the circuit without the capacitor. The second is to the ...
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What is the difference between these two input impedance equations?

I'm currently solving some university E&M homework problems and to solve input impedance, we were given this formula (from Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics 6th Ed): But when I browse ...
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How to buffer (high input impedance required) a differential signal

I'm wanting a to increase the input impedance to a differential ADC. The ADC spec states that it can't handle a negative voltage lower than -100mV the ADC's supply can handle ~5V (this is a ATtiny1617)...
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How can I get the input impedance of this multistage amplifier?

I was trying to figure out the input impedance of this multistage amplifier. The input impedance of the other stages can be simplified to \$R_{i2}\$. I tried to replace T1 with the hirbid model but ...
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Why do LDMOS RF power transistors have a low real resistance?

I've been looking through datasheets for RF LDMOS amplifiers for use in an RF power amplifier. They typically have an input impedance that has some small real part of the resistance (<10 Ω) with a ...
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Impedance of antenna and noise propagation

I would like to better understand how noise is radiated. Suppose the circuit under study is a circuit with a DC/DC converter (source of noise) and an analog circuit (receiver) which is very sensible ...
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Input impedance when an opto-isolator is in series

My circuit is detecting 24Vac/dc signals with an opto isolator at the input. HCPL354 is the opto isolator and I am adding 4.4Kohms resistance in series to limit the current. When I make the datasheet ...
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Measuring variable impedance

I was wondering how to design a measurement system that's able to correctly measure a load impedance that can vary over time and can possibly have very low as well as very high values (see figure ...
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When should an unmatched antenna be measured with a cable length in even multiples of a half-wavelength?

A few years ago someone told me that if you use a cable which has a length of an even half-wavelength multiple for the frequency being tested, then the impedance measured at the end of that cable will ...
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How to lower input resistance of buffer (unity-gain) op-amp?

A practical op-amp connected in a unity gain configuration will have a very high input resistance (mega-ohms or higher). How can I add an external resistor to modify the input resistance to the kilo-...
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ADC input impedance - DC682a with sensor

I need to read sensor position with 16 bit resolution, with this spec: I currently have in hand the DC682A ADC, but Im not sure if I can use it from datasheet LTC1859: "The input impedance is ...
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Input impedance of op-amp

How can I calculate the input impedance of this circuit?
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Understanding the discrepancy between the input impedance of a signal analyzer and the input noise

The manual of a signal analyzer I am working with states that the input impedance is \$ 1 \ {\rm{M\Omega}} + 50 \ {\rm{pF}} \$, the manual also states that the input noise is \$< 10 \ {\rm{nV_{rms}/...
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Not sure about input impedance of this PNP transistor circuit

I have to find the input impedance Zi of the following circuit: Using the small signal equivalent for the transistor, I get the following schematic: It is easy to see, that we need to write the ...
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How to measure the input impedance of a laser diode/LED using a VNA?

It would be nice to have some advice on an issue I'm having with a laser diode. I have a DFB laser diode that has no kind of series resistor connected to it in the package. I want to make a driver for ...
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Find input impedance in calculation and simulation [closed]

May I ask how to find the input impedance for the output of VG1 in the calculation and in simulation tests? Should I consider the op-amp as a resistor with the ideal input impedance when calculating? ...
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Common base amplifier's input impedance

simulate this circuit – Schematic created using CircuitLab In a BJT common base amplifier configuration the input impedance is ~\$r'\$ (emitter resistance), right? If I understand correctly, ...
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Cascoded op-amp: What practically limits CMRR and input impedance?

I am interested to better understand the practical limitations to input impedance and common-mode rejection ratio in cascoded op-amp structures. I already simulated quite a bit, but I am running into ...
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Are frontend amplifiers in RF transceivers impedance matched?

I think by now I get complex impedance, the Smith chart, and antenna matching, but I am wondering how in an RF transceiver, i.e. a radio, the amplifiers on the transmitting and the receiving end are ...
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How can I determine the input and output impedance in a common base amplifier?

I have been struggling with this simple problem for a week. I want to find the input and the output impedance. We were only taught two formulas in our course to find the impedance: $$Zin= \frac{Vin}{...
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How to practically measure an input impedance?

I would like to know how I could practically measure the input impedance of the following circuit: I update my post by adding the rest of the circuit. This is what my circuit looks like. The aim of ...
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Audio splitter without buffer possible?

The audio source is an active mixer with an output impedance of 100 ohm, 25 mA output current and 3 V-pp max. The inputs that would receive this source are (1) an ADC with an input impedance of 20 ...
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Frequency Counter Input Impedance

I have been looking at RF frequency counters and noticed that they all have one port that says up to 50 MHz with an input impedance of 1 megaohm. However the +50 MHz input says 50 Ohm impedance. If ...
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What's the relevance of differential (and common-mode) input impedance?

Short version: as stated in the subject: what's the relevance of these parameters when designing a "normal" op-amp circuit, for example for audio: a Sallen-Keys active filter, or an RIAA-...
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Would appreciate some tips on designing simple OpAmp circuit

I've recently posted this question regarding input impedance when working with DC signal on HCPL-7840 Isolation Amplifier. The answers were very clarifying and helpful, but I've come to realize I need ...
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OpAmp input impedance when working with DC signal

I'm using an HCPL-7840 (Isolation Amplifier) on a project. Its datasheet says its equivalent input impedance is 500 kΩ, but impedance is frequency dependent and I'm going to use it in a DC application....
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Input impedance for a difference amplifier OpAmp circuit

For the above circuit, I would like to find the input impedance for the input \$v_1\$. Assuming that \$R_1 = R_2\$ and \$ R_3 = R_4\$, then: $$v_0 = \frac{R_3}{R_1} (v_2 - v_1)$$ As far as I know, the ...
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solving purely resistive DC circuit using input output impedances and gain

I want to solve the following example circuit not using node analysis or other methods but calculating input impedance/output impedance and gain of the circuit. The circuit has no AC source and is ...
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S-Parameters Power amplifier impedance matching

I recently decided to conceive a 10W class 446MHz amplifier. I want to be able to amplify a 100mW signal into a 10W, for that i'm going for a two stages amplifier : SKY65162 to amplify the signal to ...
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Lossless quarter wavelength transmission lines

so my lecturer released a past paper with the answers and I have no idea how he got the answer to this question. Please could someone explain it to me? Thanks. The question is: A lossless quarter-...
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What is this circuit called, and what is it used for?

I analyzed this circuit and found that it's an inverting amplifier and that the impedance of the circuit goes to zero when the frequency of the input voltage goes to infinity. Does anyone know the ...
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Amplifier with bipolar transistor

What does input and output impedance (I/O) in electronics mean? This is in my book but I didn't understand it. Please explain it to me
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Define input impedance of a buck converter for ideal converter (efficiency 100%) & practical converter

What I know was -The input impedance by the closed-loop buck converter in CCM mode, Zi and, in turn, that presented impedance is dependent on Zo and the duty cycle used by the buck converter below is ...
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Explanation about op-amp bias resistor and bootstrapping

I am reading a book on op-amp and its applications in linear-integrated circuits and came across this topic of creating an op-amp circuit with very high input impedance. I believe that I understand ...
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What is the input impedance of the ADC the SAMD21 on the Arduino Zero?

I'm looking through the data sheet and I can't find the answer. Datasheet
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STM32G0 Seems to output 0.77 V on the input pin when set to high impedance and nothing else is connected to it, why does this happen?

Currently I have an a pin on an STM32 set to be an input and floating (high impedance). When the device it was measuring from was powered down and nothing was going on I was measure about 0.35 V on ...
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