National Semiconductor
Application Note 2095
Hooman Hashemi
LMH730316 SOT23-5 /
SOT23-6 High Performance
Amplifier Evaluation Board
November 1, 2010
Several components are mounted on the board bottom, while
the DUT is installed on the top layer, for best performance.
Here is a list of these components:
General Description
The LMH730316 evaluation board is designed to aid in the
characterization of National Semiconductor’s high speed
and / or low distortion Operational Amplifiers and is sold with-
out any components installed for easy application adoption.
This 4 layer board is designed to improve speed and reduce
harmonic distortion by careful placement and routing of com-
ponents and traces.
Rf, RGa, C4, and RGND.
For SOT23-6 devices with schematic pin 5 used for the dis-
able function, resistor RTdis can be used (normally 50Ω)
while an input at J4 can act as a disable signal. For a SOT23-5
device, schematic pin 5 is non-existent and the said compo-
nents are thus “don’t care”.
Use the evaluation board as a guide for high frequency layout
and as a tool to aid in device testing and characterization.
All board components are the SMT 0603 type, except the fol-
lowing listed in Table 1
Basic Operation
TABLE 1. Board Components which are not "0603" type
This evaluation board supports both inverting and non-invert-
ing configurations. For component locations refer to the
schematic in Figure 1 . Note that the pin numbers correspond
to the SOT23-6 package. For the SOT23-5 package,
schematic pin 6 (VCC) is normally called pin 5 and schematic
pin 5 does not exist (open).
Reference Designator
Description
Schottky diode,
1N5859, 40V (or
equivalent)
D1
Shorting jumper
(single supply
operation only)
The board uses end mounted SMA connectors. On the +IN
input, resistor RINa provides input termination. The resistors
RTp and RINb are normally open and short, respectively, and
are included for added flexibility (e.g. filtering, divider / atten-
uation, etc.) in configuring the amplifier. When using the
evaluation board for non-inverting applications, load resistor
RGa only (RGb and RTn left open). The resistors RGb and
RTn are for use in the inverting configuration. When using this
board for inverting applications, do not load RGa; instead load
RGb and an appropriate value of RTn. Ro and RTo resistors
comprise the output connection network which is usually con-
figured for 50Ω operation (Ro= 50Ω , RTo= open).
RGND
Diode D1 (optional) is meant as protection to clamp the sup-
plies in case VCC and VEE are accidentally reversed. For
single-supply operation (VCC), short RGND to connect VEE
to GND and do not power VEE pins on J5. When using a sin-
gle supply it is important to pay attention to DC bias voltages.
This board consists of four layers. All four layers are detailed
in Figure 2 through Figure 5.
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