AD830
AC COUPLED LINE RECEIVER
The AD830 is configurable as an ac coupled differential ampli-
fier on a single or bipolar supply voltages. All that is needed is
inclusion of a few noncritical passive components as illustrated
below in Figure 42. A simple resistive network at the X GM
input establishes a common-mode bias. Here, the common
mode is centered at 6 volts, but in principle can be any voltage
within the common-mode limits of the AD830. The 10 kΩ re-
sistors to each input bias the X GM stage with sufficiently high
impedance to keep the input coupling corner frequency low, but
not too large so that residual bias current induced offset voltage
becomes troublesome. For dual supply operation, the 10 kΩ
resistors may go directly to ground. The output common is con-
veniently set by a Zener diode for a low impedance reference to
preserve the high frequency CMR. However, a simple resistive
divider will work fine and good high frequency CMR can be
maintained by placing a compensating resistor in series with the
+Y input. The excellent CMRR response of the circuit is shown
in Figure 43. A plot of the 0.1 dB flatness from 10 Hz is also
shown. With the use of 10 µF capacitors, the CMR is >90 dB
down to a few tens of hertz. This level of performance is almost
impossible to achieve with discrete solutions.
INPUT
SIGNAL
10µF
ZCM
RT
10µF
10kΩ 10kΩ
+VS
2kΩ*
10kΩ
1
GM
2
3
GM
4
10kΩ
*OPTIONAL TUNING FOR
IMPROVING VERY LOW
FREQUENCY CMR.
AD830
A=1
C
+12V
0.1µF
8
75Ω
COAX
VOUT 75Ω CABLE
7
1000µF
6
75Ω
5
+12V
4.7kΩ
1N4736
6.8V
Figure 42. AC Coupled Line Receiver
120
WITH CIRCUIT TRIMMED
USING EXTERNAL 2kΩ
POTENTIOMETER
100
80
WITHOUT EXTERNAL
2kΩ POTENTIOMETER
60
40
20
10
100
1k
10k 100k
1M
10M 100M
FREQUENCY – Hz
Figure 43. Common-Mode Rejection vs. Frequency for
Line Receiver
1
0
–0.1
–0.2
–0.3
–0.4
–0.5
–0.6
–0.7
–0.8
–0.9
10
100
1k
10k
100k
1M
10M
FREQUENCY – Hz
Figure 44. Amplitude Response vs. Frequency for Line
Receiver
REV. A
–15–