RB9005 Instrumentation Amplifier
[Reference Manual]


Detailed Description

Purpose

Provide programmable amplifiers and filters to form a data-acquisition system with the high speed 12-bit ADC RB8905.

Description

Module RB9005 is a 4-channel programmable amplifier-filter module.

The module's front-panel looks as follows.

    +----------------------+
    |     Programable      |
    |  Differential Amp.   |
    |   +input1   input3   |
    |     (o)       (o)    |
    |                      |
    |   -input1   input4   |
    |     (o)       (o)    |
    |                      |
    |   +input2    ouput   |
    |     (o)       (o)    |
    |              clock   |
    |   -input2   in o1 o2 |
    |     (o)    (o)(o)(o) |
    |                      |
    |  RULBUS              |
    +----------------------+
   

It has two differential programmable amplifiers followed by a programmable filter, two unbalanced input (single-ended) programmable amplifiers and an ouput multiplexer to present one, two, three or all four inputs in sequence.

            1-1-1-1   ·   2-1-2-1   ·   3-2-1-3   ·   4-3-2-1
   

Further the module has a clock input and two clock outputs that can be programmed to duplicate the clock input or to follow an alternating sequence so that out1 presents a clock signal for the odd channels and out2 presents a clock signal for the even channels in the selected channel sequence. (Apparently this is not very useful for the 3-2-1-3 sequence where channel 3 appears at odd and even positions in the sequence.)

             Amplifiers       Low Pass Filters        Multiplexer

             _                                       .------------.
   in1+ o---| = _               .------.             |            |
            |G1 _>--------------| LPF1 |-------------| Ch1        |
   in1- o---|_=                 `------'             |            |
              |                     |                |            |
              |   _                 |                |            |
   in2+ o--------| = _              | .------.       |            |
              |  |G2 _>---------------| LPF2 |-------| Ch2        |---o output
   in2- o--------|_=                | `------'       |            |
              |    |                |    |           |            |
              |    |   _            |    |           |            |
              |    |  | = _         |    |           |            |
   in3+ o-------------|G3 _>-------------------------| Ch3        |
              |    |  |_=           |    |           |       .----|     Clock
              |    |    |           |    |           |       |    |
              |    |    |   _       |    |           |       |    |-<-o input
              |    |    |  | = _    |    |           |       |    |
   in4+ o------------------|G4 _>--------------------| Ch4   |    |->-o out1
              |    |    |  |_=      |    |           |-------'    |
              |    |    |    |      |    |           |            |->-o out2
              |    |    |    |      |    |           `------------'
              |    |    |    |      |    |              |   |   |
              ^    ^    ^    ^      ^    ^              ^   |   ^
              G1   G2   G3   G4     F1   F2       Channel   ^   doClockSequence
                                                   doChannnelsequence
             \_________________ software control ______________________/
   

The following table shows the module's gain and low-pass filter characteristics.

   Channel |  Gain                   F-LowPass [kHz] programmable
   --------+------------------------------------------------------
     1, 2  |    10, 20, 40, 80           >= 1000     (no filter)
           |   100, 200, 400, 800            100         yes
           |  1000, 2000, 4000, 8000          10         yes
           | 10000, 20000, 40000, 80000        1         yes
           |                                   0.1       yes
           |
     3, 4  |     1                          3000         no
           |    10                            :          no
           |   100                            :          no
           |  1000                           312         no
   


Classes

class  RB9005_amplifier
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