Electrical – Negative Power Supply for Op Amp

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I have a 12V (single ended)power supply available for and op amp circuit I am designing. I want it to be very precise around zero volts for an output. I already though about using a virtual ground, but I am putting the output into a Max 10 FPGA, so I do not think that I can accommodate for that. My question is, is it possible to use a second op amp and make the Vcc of it ground and the Vee of it as 12V and use it as an inverting op amp, to then use that as the power supply for the first op amp. The op amps that I have are LM358, but I do not think that it makes a difference for this scenario. I am shifting the input and scaling it with a circuit like the one below, I am just trying to improve its resolution at small outputs.

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Best Answer

Opamps don't produce voltage or current. They let more or less current pass from the powersupply to the output. To get a negative voltage out of an opamp, you have give it a powersupply with a negative voltage.

The output of an opamp is limited to what is available from the supply rails. If you have rails of 0 and 12V, then that's the limits of your output.