Technical Documentation

Application Notes (6)

AN-671: Reducing RFI Rectification Errors in In-Amp Circuits (pdf, 208 kB)
AN-589: Ways to Optimize the Performance of a Difference Amplifier (pdf, 115 kB)
This Application Note presents several ways to build and optimize the performance of a discrete difference amplifier. It also recommends amplifiers that will make the overall solution cost/performance competitive with monolithic instrument amplifiers.
AN-282: Fundamentals of Sampled Data Systems (pdf, 2131 kB)
AN-245: Instrumentation Amplifiers Solve Unusual Design Problems (pdf, 543 kB)
Traditionally Considered Only for Transducer-Conditioning Applications, Instrumentation Amplifiers Bring Unique Performance Benefits to a Range of Other Applications as Well.
AN-244: A User's Guide to I.C. Instrumentation Amplifiers (pdf, 522 kB)
AN-214: Ground Rules for High Speed Circuits (pdf, 356 kB)
Layout and Wiring Are Critical in Video Converter Circuits.

Technical Articles (5)

Auto-Zero Amplifiers (doc, 75 kB)
A wide variety of electronic applications, especially those involving very small input signals, require signal paths with very low offset voltage and offset voltage drift over time and temperature.
High-performance Adder Uses Instrumentation Amplifiers
Make an adder circuit using instrumentation amplifiers to increase input impedance.
(EDN, 9/3/2009)
Input Filter Prevents Instrumentation-amp RF-Rectification Errors
by Charles Kitchin, Lew Counts, and Moshe Gerstenhaber, Analog Devices, Inc. (EDN, 11/13/2003)
Low-Power, Low-Voltage IC Choices for ECG System Requirements
(Analog Dialogue, Vol. 29, No. 3, 1995)
The AD8221 - Setting a New Industry Standard for Instrumentation Amplifiers (pdf, 582 kB)