LMC6482
SNOS674D –NOVEMBER 1997–REVISED MARCH 2013
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APPLICATION INFORMATION
AMPLIFIER TOPOLOGY
The LMC6482 incorporates specially designed wide-compliance range current mirrors and the body effect to
extend input common mode range to each supply rail. Complementary paralleled differential input stages, like the
type used in other CMOS and bipolar rail-to-rail input amplifiers, were not used because of their inherent
accuracy problems due to CMRR, cross-over distortion, and open-loop gain variation.
The LMC6482's input stage design is complemented by an output stage capable of rail-to-rail output swing even
when driving a large load. Rail-to-rail output swing is obtained by taking the output directly from the internal
integrator instead of an output buffer stage.
INPUT COMMON-MODE VOLTAGE RANGE
Unlike Bi-FET amplifier designs, the LMC6482 does not exhibit phase inversion when an input voltage exceeds
the negative supply voltage. Figure 56 shows an input voltage exceeding both supplies with no resulting phase
inversion on the output.
An input voltage signal exceeds the lmc6482 power supply voltages with no output phase inversion.
Figure 56. Input Voltage
The absolute maximum input voltage is 300mV beyond either supply rail at room temperature. Voltages greatly
exceeding this absolute maximum rating, as in Figure 57, can cause excessive current to flow in or out of the
input pins possibly affecting reliability.
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