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Friday, December 27, 2013

Non Inverting Summing Amplifier

Here's the circuit:
Non Inverting Summing Amplifier, general case

We start by finding the equations for V+ and V:
V=VoutRgRg+Rf
The currents to the V+ node have the same subscripts as the voltages and resistances. We now have a bunch of equations:
V1V+=I1R1V2V+=I2R2
and so on to:
VnV+=InRn
We also have
I1+I2++In=0
So by arranging the equations in this form:
VnV+Rn=In
we get:
V1V+R1+V2V+R2++VnV+Rn=0
which can be simplified to:
V+=V1R1R2Rn/R1+V2R1R2Rn/R2++VnR1R2Rn/RnR1R2Rn/R1+R1R2Rn/R2+R1R2Rn/Rn
(Hope I got that notation right...)

Using the golden op amp rules we now set V+=V and get:
VoutRgRg+Rf=V1R1R2Rn/R1+V2R1R2Rn/R2++VnR1R2Rn/RnR1R2Rn/R1+R1R2Rn/R2+R1R2Rn/RnVout=Rg+RfRgV1R1R2Rn/R1+V2R1R2Rn/R2++VnR1R2Rn/RnR1R2Rn/R1+R1R2Rn/R2+R1R2Rn/Rn
If we want to, we can simplify this drastically by setting one or both of these equations:
R1=R2= =Rn=RRg=Rf
Will give us:
Vout=2V1+V2++Vnn
To get a unity gain summer we can set:
Rg+RfnRg=1Rf=Rg(n1)

That's it. By the way, the schematics I made using xcircuit. It was my first circuit using this tool, but it seems nice enough to try it some more...

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