Electronic – LM358 Datasheet and configuration

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I have a few questions about the LM358. The first is regard to the schematic below. I'd like to know why RB is there? (What purpose does it serve and how do you know?)

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The second is with regard to the figure below showing open-loop response. I don't quite understand why there is feedback (the cap and the 10M resistor). Could someone please explain why?

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My last is, how does one know what the maximum frequency that one can put into an op-amp is? For example, I think I read somewhere that tying a terminal to a square pulse generator is bad because the square pulse has an infinite bandwidth and putting something with infinite bandwidth into an op-amp is not good. How does one know how high a frequency an op-amp is rated for (without breaking it)?

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Here's what the application hints say about Rload

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I don't quite understand why there is feedback (the cap and the 10M resistor). Could someone please explain why?

Because the input offset voltage can be a few millivolt it's easy to apply a 10M feedback resistor to perfectly bias the op-amp DC wise so that ac measurements can be made. Becuase the input cap is 0.1uF and the feedback resistor is 10Mohm the circuit acts like a high pass filter at 0.159Hz so this is of no consequence when measuring ac gain. The real gain of the opamp can be inferred from the gain when using C and R.

how does one know what the maximum frequency that one can put into an op-amp is?

Here is an open loop gain (red) from an op-amp not disimilar to the LM358. Notice the blue line - this is the frequency response when negative feedback is applied. There is a constant 20 dB gain from DC to 1MHz (3dB down) and this would be the actual response with feedback. So if your square wave were 1kHz the square would be failry pure up to nearly the 1000th harmonic.

You can't break an op-amp with frequency - you can only break it with too much current or voltage.

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