THS4021, THS4022

350-MHz LOW-NOISE HIGH-SPEED AMPLIFIERS

SLOS265B – SEPTEMBER 1999 – REVISED FEBRUARY 2000

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POST OFFICE BOX 655303

APPLICATION INFORMATION

theory of operation

The THS402x is a high-speed, operational amplifier configured in a voltage feedback architecture. It is built

using a 30-V, dielectrically isolated, complementary bipolar process with NPN and PNP transistors possessing

slew rate, fast settling time, and low distortion. A simplified schematic is shown in Figure 30.

IN – (2)

IN + (3)

NULL (1)

NULL (8)

(6) OUT

(4) VCC –

(7) VCC +

Figure 30. THS4021 Simplified Schematic

noise calculations and noise figure

Noise can cause errors on very small signals. This is especially true when amplifying small signals, where

signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is very important. The noise model for the THS402x is shown in Figure 31. This

model includes all of the noise sources as follows: