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matching resistor to a cable and a 75Ω load to ground at the
end of the cable provide a 150Ω DC load. But output
capacitive coupling opens this DC path so an extra pulldown
resistor on the amplifier output to ground is required.
Figure 4 shows a 250Ω resistor. Capacitively coupling the
output will require that we shift the output offset voltage
higher than in the direct coupled case. Using RA = 43k and
RB = 4.7k will make the quiescent output offset voltage
about 1V. The output dynamic range will be 0.6V to 3V.
Input capacitive coupling will increase the needed dynamic
range of the amplifier. The standard NTSC video signal is 1V
peak to peak plus 143mV for the color AC peak. The video
signal is made up of the -286mV sync pulse plus the 714mV
picture signal which may very from 0V to 714mV. The video
signal average value for a black picture is about 28mV
(Figure 2) and with a white picture level is about 583mV
(Figure 3). This gives a maximum change in average value
of about 555mV. A direct coupled amplifier with an standard
NTSC video signal needs a dynamic range of 1.143V. But
with input capacitance coupling the dynamic range
requirements are the sum of the 1.143V video plus the
average picture value change of 0.555V or 1.698VP-P. At a
gain of two this doubles to 3.394V. These amplifiers do not
have this much dynamic range so a gain of less than 2 must
be used to avoid waveform compression under all
conditions.
Capacitively coupling the input and output is worse than a
capacitor only on the input. Without any special
compromises you can only take a gain of one. But if the
backmatch resistor is reduced to 36Ω, reducing the output
VIN
+ Video
– 1V
0.1µF 0.32VB 68K
CB
4.7K
RB
RA
+
0.64VB
V AMP 75
VOUT
1V
AMP
-
RO
1K
RF
+ V1
– 5V
FIGURE 1.
0.714V
0.0V
-0.286V
0.6
0.867
Ý10µs
53µs
0.583V
1.3µs
3.8µs
5.1µs
FIGURE 2. WHITE LEVEL VIDEO
0.714V
0.0V
-0.286V
53mV
Average BL
+45mV
0.686V +28mV
Average Picture Value Change — 555mV
FIGURE 3. BLACK LEVEL VIDEO
Gain = 2
1.428
1.166
1.8V offset
Amp
OutVolts
2.062
1.8
0
-0.572
+0.348
+0.062
Gain = 2
1.8V offset
Amp Out
Volts
+3.172
+56mV
+1.8
+1.172
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