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Common Mode Input Range - Using Ocean

coco009
coco009 over 16 years ago

This is relatively straight forward design question, so thanks to anyone who can help me.

 

I am trying to calculate the CMIR for an op amp. At present, I have set up a testbench, where I use the op amp as a unity gain buffer and then I sweep the V+ input from 0V -> Vdd. Because I have a unity gain buffer, I am calculating the common mode input range as the range of V+ values, resulting in unity gain on the output, i.e where V+ = V-. 

 

My question is ... is there a standard way of actually taking the measurement, where I can measure the CMIR (Vcmin, Vcmax)automatically, with an ocean command say. At the moment, I am plotting V+ and V- and estimating the CMIR values when V- deviates from a gain of 1. This is not really a very consistant method, so if anyone has any more "mainstream" methods of calculating these values, I would be very grateful.  

 

Thanks in advance

 

coco009

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