Re: What's your favorite rail-rail op amp?

Tim Wescott <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

> Clearly I'm designing a circuit. I'm kind of in Rip-van-winkle land
> as far as current parts, since I've been doing software and algorithms
> for the last few years. So I'm current on lots of nifty through-hole
> parts, but choosing nice stuff out of the oceans of newer parts could
> drag me down considerably.
>
> What's your favorite rail-rail op amp? It doesn't have to have
> spectacular performance -- It's basically for a unity-gain follower on
> a signal that's been AC coupled then run through a 5kHz lowpass filter
> anyway.
>
> It may well have input voltages that exceed the power supply rails, so
> something that's vice-free in that regard would be nice. Beyond that,
> it doesn't have to be a terribly hot performer.


I like AD8655. Don't know about it's behaviour when overdriven though.

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John Devereux