PRECISION_PEAK_VOLTAGE_DETECTOR_WITH_A_LONG_MEMORY_TIME

Published:2009/6/25 22:29:00 Author:Jessie | From:SeekIC

Circuit Notes The circuit has negative feedback only for positive signals. The inverting input can only get some feedback when diode Dl is forward biased and only occurs when the input is posi-tive. With a positive input signal, the output of the op amp rises until the inverting input signal reaches the same potential. In so doing, the capacitor C is also charged to this potential.When the input goes negative, the diode Dl becomes reverse biased, the voltage on the capacitor remains, being slowly discharged by the op amp input bias current of 10 pico amps.Thus the discharge of the capacitor is domin-antly controlled by the resistor R, giving a time constant of 10 seconds. Thus, the circuit de-tects the most positive peak voltage and remembers it.



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