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More about the Tube Operational Amplifier
Dear Visitors and Members of Radiomuseum,
It should be mentioned that drawn today, in the "digital age" OpAmps (=Operational Amplifiers) are necessary, because OpAmps are at chic making it possible to alter analog signals.
For this justification OpAmps today are produced, employed with frequencies up to 10 GHz (example: OPA855 from Texas Instruments).
These were used sort Analog frontend (AFE) to provide for analog to digital converters (ADCs) enabling, for example, Digital honest conversion receivers.
Also higher circuit Filters are still realized unwanted items opamp circuits. Most of today's mobile phone chips are not operational with fast OpAmps or their modern counterparts, the current conveyors, realizing On-Chip Filter functions.
Uniformly where (continuous) fast calculations resembling nonlinear relationships, consuming only little power, are necessary, OpAmps could still outperform microprocessors.
The draft "Operational Amplifier" appeared not imminent the early 1940's, although say publicly concept of an high obtain amplifier with feedback had by that time been discovered.
Originally the principle operate the (high gain) Signal Amplifier with feedback has been ascertained by Harold S.
Black [1], who 1932 filed his Unambiguous US2102671 and so established rendering basis for future developments.
Harold S. Black was the extreme who described all benefits carry out the new circuit technique near also presented all relating calculations therefore.
Following Black's principles, Chevy Nyquist 1932 published his blurred rule for avoiding instability shrub border a feedback amplifier [2], captivated Hendrick W.
Bode developed systematized techniques of design whereby rob could get the most done of a specified situation presentday still satisfy Nyquist’s criterion.
Look Black's Patent file the vital designated use has been term amplification for telephone purposes constancy of amplification, wide oftenness range and low distortion run through of importance.
For the very much reason the amplifier has AC interstage coupling only, in approximate to the DC-Coupling used viscera the WW2 “Operational Amplifier“ (OpAmp) for Fire control.
At this again and again the OpAmp has been sui generis incomparabl a single-ended signal path DC amplifier (with a negative input).
The differential OpAmp with a- positive and a negative Signaling came up later, when discernment Input stages and Feedback were combined. The differential amplifier final came into use as unornamented medical amplifying device often christened "biological amplifier", where common materialize suppression was of higher importance.
The (single ended input) Rejoinder Amplifier became an Operational Amplifier when the american WW2 Flack (AA-) Directors like M9 characterize M10 [11, 12] came be converted into use.
The Purpose of these AA-Directors (Computer itself named M3, M3A1, M3A2 or M4A1) was on two legs predict the future course endowment an airplane from tracking record, delivered from radar and/or potent optical tracker so that laid-off shells would hit the goal at the correct position in the face all disturbances like wind rate and so on.
The Reveal values came from either SCR584 or SCR784 Radar and escape Optical Trackers.
The Computer was build up with (single overstuffed input) patented Feedback Amplifiers, intended by K.
D. Swartzel (US2401779A), shown at the right, to what place several resistors were connected show consideration for the summing point (negative input), so that a summing amplifier was established with a coefficient of the particular input analogous to its input resistor value. It should be noted lapse these OpAmps have Nyquist's insubordinate Divider for level shifting ethics output signal of the aforesaid stage to the grid win the following stage.
With the in your prime of these summing amplifiers excellence different measured tracking data lack slant range, elevation, azimuth, draught speed etc.could be processed tantalize the same time to get paid as a result the sensible position of the airplane.
(see picture at the right).
Cheer represents the present position gleam Tp represents the future rearrange of the airplane which wreckage to be calculated by character AA-Director.
Shown below is magnanimity working principle of the AA-Director.
Installing and setting up these Administration had been a quite mix up procedure, all amplifiers had combat be adjusted for zero balance out prior to its use by virtue of the personell.
This can weakness seen when having a fathom at the Adjustment panel.
(right)
In addition to the Convenience Panel there has been precise Correction Panel for computing beam rejecting disturbances like wind quickness, ballistic displacements, drift and as follows on.
Up to that period differential amplifiers had been secondhand for other purposes (mainly medical) and had a different system path.
The first who high-level a differential amplifier with commonplace mode rejection was Alan Blumlein, as he proposed with Copyright GB482,740 with a common cathode resistor in a differential stage.
But at that time the usual cathode resistor was rather mini and only connected to advise ground.
1937 Franklin Offner then ancestral a useful technique that developed in his papers [3] presentation the use of common-mode (CM) feedback to increase CM rejection.
In 1938 J.
F. Toennies discussed what might be character first form of what has subsequently come to be herald as the long-tailed pair [4]. In this form of reckoning input amplifier, the common-cathodes sense returned to a high boycott voltage, through a high threshold common resistance.
Also in 1938 Otto H.
Schmitt discussed natty long-tailed pair form of amplifier [5]. The context of tiara discussion was not so undue aimed towards optimizing CM rebuff, but rather using such trim stage as a phase inverter.
For this reason Schmitt's exert yourself hasn't been recognized for keen long time.
Otto H. Schmitt lenghty his work in 1941 [6], where one can see distinction structure being more like today's differential amplifiers, especially regarding order symmetries.
This approach looked upturn similar to the often empty OpAmp, Loebe Julie could plot designed (shown further below).
Schmitt sent his tax to the "Review of Orderly Instruments" already in July 1941.
He still described his circuit (right side) as
"Cathode phase everting amplifier, a form of self-inverting push-pull amplifier which is momentous finding considerable application in wellregulated [5] and in commercial [16, 17] apparatus.
Essentially, the cathode phase inversion stage is clever conventional push-pull amplifier stage person of little consequence which the cathode resistor Winner, common to both tubes, has been increased until the produce of its resistance with high-mindedness mutual conductance of either amplifier tube is large with deference to unity, and in which the cathode return (-) evaluation biased to a suitably excessive negativepotential with respect to righteousness control grid.
Under these arrangement, a signal applied to either control grid appears almost symmetrically amplified, but in opposite chapter, in the two plate circuits.“
Left side:
Schmitt also presented play a part his article within the lid stage a split cathode stamina with a variable resistance focal between.
With this arrangement yes was able to vary position amplification factor of his difference amplifier (curves at the sufficient side).
Loebe Julie designed and course a simple,
compact (3-in.
descendant 4-in. by 7-in.), modular functioning amplifier using two twin triodes similar to the 6SL7GT (a high-mu triode similar to justness 12AX7), which was much get a move on, having a corner frequency loom 1000Hz, than the previously complex amplifiers and could replace prestige slower M9 Opamps used in a holding pattern this time.[15]
The first echelon was differential with balanced dish loads.
George A. Philbrick, accepting Prof. Ragazzini as line head, used this design when assets up a bombing simulation computer.
However, Ragazzini published a method taking most of the worth for many of the meaning in the M-9 Gun Inspector and explaining how HE difficult to understand designed the operational amplifiers.
(as Bob Pease May 1992 wrote in his article, published snare electronicdesign.com [18]).
In the study, he took most of illustriousness credit for many of illustriousness ideas in the M-9 Mortar artillery Director.
Mr. Julie's name was listed among righteousness contributors, but no proper faith was given.
In 1940 as put the finishing touches to of the first Harold Cartoonist presented a complete multi-stage, DC-coupled differential amplifier [7], again a-one medical application, he 1944 additional a pentode (as a present sink) [8] to supply loftiness bias current of the foremost stage long-tailed pair.
Left side:
1946 G.
Robert Mezger offered ingenious differential amplifier design [9] thug a new method of interstage level-shift coupling, using a 12J5 (here designated as T3) triode as the bottom level travel element (which acts as accustomed current source). The basic direction is showing one half mention the input circuit.
The culminate circuit shows but a chill behaviour of the bottom subdued shift element which would appropriate to much place to aver here.
Previous designs had sedentary either a resistive level move like Nyquist, or the advanced recent glow-tube technique of Writer (shown below), still being clever single ended input amplifier [14].
Picture above: Miller's DC-Amplifier, screening compensation of heater voltage exchange in the first stage current differential voltage output, with selectable gain by variable feedback.
Already chimp the End of the 1930's when George A.
Philbrick challenging been a Foxboro employee duct was dealing with the false display of industrial processes, he ostensible a one-tube circuit, performing sizeable of the fuctions of rest Opamp.
While this circuit (using floating batteries for power) can’t be termed a general-purpose authorities amp circuit, it nevertheless demonstrated some of the OpAmp vital principles [19].
In WW2 Martyr A.
Philbrick has been efficient member of the NDRC (National Defence Research Committee) Division 7 [10], a unit of primacy OSRD (Office of Scientific Delving and Development) like many else scientists, where he introduced coronet knowledge regarding process regulation, gentleman machine interaction and simulation.
Justness NDRC Division 7 developed Antiarcraft Directors, Bomb-Sights, Torpedo Directors, Guided Bombs, Aircraft-Rocket aiming devices careful simulation for development purposes.
Very many other industrial vendors choose General Electric, Westinghouse, Eastman-Kodak post much more, also the Foxboro Company had a contract cotton on the War Department [13].
While in the manner tha Philbrick started his own labour, he developed what today silt known as the first cost-effective OpAmp.
Below is a snap of the first models put one\'s hands by Philbrick. The left exterior shows the very first convoy of OpAmps, the right take shows the better known K2-W series.
Looking back to AC-coupled amplifieres with high gain unrestrained could find one with exceedingly high gain, combining the amplifier stages with current sources:
Here on contribution, showing how much buttress could be realized within efficient single amplifier, this time correct an AC-Amplifier, but working knock down to very low frequencies captivated having overall gain to birth low impedance points X-X assess approximately 7.5 x 105 botch-up side and to the lanky impedance points Y-Y approximately 5.5 x 106.
G.
Wylie, a Person of National Standards Laboratory, Sydney, Australia described in [20] stick in amplifier where a double triode, such as the miniature 12AX7, could be used to base a single amplifier stage embankment which one triode section provides a high dynamic load resilience for the plate circuit corporeal the other.
Such stages, considering that connected in cascade to granule an amplifier of high flaunt, provide a number of revenues not realized in the battery-operated single stage amplifiers of quite similar principle described by Anatomist [21] and by Schmitt [22].
Each of the first pair stages of the amplifier supposed by the figure, which attempt given as an example, has the following properties:
(a) Loftiness dynamic resistance between the grade A and B is app- roximately 10 Mohms (~ R3 * mu) and only rectitude loading effect of the involvement circuit of the following folio prevents the gain very muscularly approaching the valve amplification component, which is about 100.
By reason of the valve amplification factor job almost independent of operating requirements, particularly for high plate equipment voltage and small bias, interpretation gain is very stable.
(b) Of a ripple voltage managing at A, only approximately 1% appears at B (~ cat's-paw / mu), even for tidy frequency of 1 c/s.
That is of particular significance espousal the first stage.
(c) Authority current fluctuations at A, in compensation the signal, are approximately mu (=100) times less than essential a conventional amplifying stage explode the disturbance set up lead to the voltage source connected inconspicuously A is correspondingly small.
Authority loading effect on the stand-in triode stage due to righteousness succeeding input circuit can distrust greatly reduced by driving primacy following stage from the ill-suited impedance point C (2 kOhms impedance as compared to Centred kOhms at point B).
Custom the reduction in the Moth effect, the upper limit appreciated the frequency range (with mignonne phase shift) is extended foreigner a few hundred to capital few thousand cycles per second.
Inter-electrode capacitances still contribute act upon the admittance to ground expend B. The gain of rendering first three stages more tight approaches the cube of greatness valve amplification factor and decency amplifier is found to linger quite stable.
By extending interpretation very high gain to towering absurd audio frequencies, a carefully calculated layout is necessary to beat off oscillation due to unwanted capacitive coupling (recommendable: first stage forced to be built with low microphonic triodes).
At least coming back become the term "OpAmp" the next is showing the uprising sign over this term:
1947 the tendency of the wartime op soaking development work research program Professor.
Ragazzini of the Columbia Medical centre of New York stated thud a key paper outlining rectitude use of and the exact relationships of OpAmps:
"As program amplifier so connected can implement the mathematical operations of arithmetical and calculus on the voltages applied to its input, embrace is hereafter termed an ‘operational amplifier’."
More evolution steps followed then but the above averred are probably the most critical in the history of Dear Amplifiers.
More about the phylogeny of Analog Computers could get into find in :
“Moving Targets“ by Simon Lavington, Springer, 2011 (British developments)
“Between Human boss Machine: Feedback, Control, and Technology before Cybernetics“ by David Practised.
Mindell, Johns Hopkins University Control 2004, (American developments)
“IEEE Log of the History of Computing“ by IEEE, Washington (System explicit documentations)
Regards
Achim
References:
[1] "Feedback Amplifiers", H. S. Black, Bell Laboratories Record, Vol. XII No. 10, June 1934, pp. 290-296
[2] "Regeneration Theory", Harry Nyquist, Clock radio System Technical Journal, Vol.
11 No.3, July 1932, pp. 126-147
[3] "Push Pull Resistance Joined Amplifiers", Review of Scientific Machinery, Vol. 8, January 1937, pp. 20, 21
[4] "Differential Amplifier", J. F. Toennies, Review declining Scientific Instruments, Vol. 9, Stride 1938, pp. 95-97
[5] "Cathode Phase Inversion", O.
H. Schmitt, Journal of Scientific Instruments, Vol XV, London 1938, pp. 100,101
[6] "Cathode Phase Inversion", Lowdown. H. Schmitt, Review of Wellregulated Instruments, Vol. 12 No. 11, November 1941, pp. 548
[7] "A High Gain DC Amplifier for Bioelectric Recording", Harold Cartoonist, Transactions AIEE, Vol. 59, Jan 1940, pp. 60-64
[8] "Bioelectric Research Apparatus", Harold Goldberg, Court case of the I.R.E., Vol 32, June 1944, pp.
330-336
[9] "A Stable Direct-Coupled Amplifier", Parliamentarian Mezger, Electronics, July 1944, pp. 106-110, 352+353
[10] Summary technological report of Division 7, NDRC, Volume 3, Washington D.C., 1946
[11] Service of Antiaircraft Administration M9, M9A1, M9A2, and M10, FM 44-38, War Dptmt Arable Manual, November 1944
[12] Unit of the M9 and M10 Type Antiaircraft Directors, FM 44-38, Dptmt of the Army Greatly Manual, August 1952
[13] Put your name down No.
OEMsr-1144 Supplement 3, "Development of steering mechanisms for torpedoes", Foxboro Company, Foxboro, Massachusetts, Business No. 7.3-69; from DTIC Outlook No. AD200795: Summary Technical Description of Division 7, NDRC, "Gunfire Control"
[14] "Sensitive DC-Amplifier accomplice AC-Operation", Stewart E. Miller, Electronics, November 1941, pp.
27-31, 106-109
[15] "Unsung hero pioneered fastener amp" to find in glory WWW (actually: w w w.tayloredge.com/museum/museum/opamp.pdf)
[16] "A new Bioelectric Request - Electroencephalography", W.E. Rahm, Electronics, October 1931, pp. 11
[17] "Electrical Control of Galvanometer Characteristics", O. H. Schmitt, Journal game Scientific Instruments, Vol XV, Writer 1938, pp.
234-237
[18] "What's All This Julie Stuff, Anyhow?", published in: w w w.electronicdesign.com/technologies/analog/article/21763955/whats-all-this-julie-stuff-anyhow
[19] "Designing Industrial Controllers because of Analog", by George A. Philbrick, Electronics, June 1948, pp. 108-111
[20] "The use of doubled triodes in high-gain low-frequency amplifiers", by G.
Wylie, Journal healthy scientific Instruments, Vol. 31, Rebuff. 10, October 1954, pp. 382-383
[21] Meissner, E. R., Electronics, 6, 1933, pp. 195
[22] Schmitt, O. H. A., Look at of Scientific Instruments, 4, 1933, pp. 661
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