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SNOS851F – MAY 1999 – REVISED APRIL 2013

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Figure 18. Recommended Non-Inverting Gain Circuit

Figure 19. Recommended Inverting Gain Circuit

Slew Rate

Slew rate limiting is a nonlinear response which occurs in amplifiers when the output voltage swing approaches

hard, abrupt limits in the speed at which it can change. In most applications, this results in an easily identifiable

“slew rate” as well as a dramatic increase in distortion for large signal levels. The CLC404 has been designed to

provide enough slew rate to avoid slew rate limiting in almost all circuit configurations. The large signal

bandwidth of 165MHz, therefore, is nearly the same as the 175MHz small signal bandwidth. The result is a low-

distortion, linear system for both small signals and large signals.

Slew rate and large signal performance in the CLC404 can best be understood by first comparing the small and

large signal performance plots at a gain of +6. In the CLC404, there is almost no difference between large and

small signal performance at this gain. Large signal performance in the CLC404 at a gain of +6 is not slew rate

limited. (In an amplifier which is slew limiting, the large signal response rolloff has an abrupt break indicating the

onset of slew rate limitation.)

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