Eon Engineering

Engineers: Sharmari Romney

Colin Tomaselli-Greenslade
Hisham Hafez

This experiment is being conducted to design and construct a simple amplifier and its inverting partner
for Pooch LLC, a start-up company. The data will be used to estimate the gain theoretically, and to
measure the gain in a laboratory setting. The following report was prepared from the data gathered
from our team of Engineers.
Background Information
An operational amplifier is a DC-coupled high-gain electronic voltage amplifier with a differential input
and, usually, a single-ended output. An op-amp produces an output potential (relative to circuit ground)
that can be up to hundreds of thousands of times larger than the potential difference between its input
terminals.
Inverting Amplifiers:
By connecting a suitable resistor across the amplifier from the output terminal back to the inverting
input terminal, we can reduce and control the overall gain of an amplifier. This configuration produces
Negative Feedback.
Negative Feedback is the process of relaying a fraction of the output signal back to the input, but to
make the feedback negative, we must feed it to the inverting input terminal of the op-amp using an
external Feedback Resistor that is usually known as R. This feedback connection between the output
and the inverting input terminal forces the differential input voltage towards zero.
This negative feedback results in the inverting input terminal producing a different signal compared to
the actual input voltage. By summing of the input voltage with the negative feedback voltage a summing
point is created.
Our team constructed an Inverting Op-Amp Circuit with the use of a 5V input, 2 100 resistors, an LF
353 OP-amp, and a PB-505 breadboard. The circuit was connected to an Oscilloscope and a DC voltage
line was recorded to illustrate the amplification in voltage.

Figure 1. The circuit constructed used an LF 353 Op-Amp to produce an output of 15V from an input of
10V with a predicted gain of +10. The configuration produces a negative image of the input as reflected
in the -15V value of the output signal.

Figure 2. A graphical representation of an Inverting Amplifier, Vin = 5, Vout = -15V

Non-Inverting Amplifier:

The second basic configuration of an operational amplifier circuit is that of a Non-inverting Operational
Amplifier. In this configuration, the input voltage signal, (Vin) is applied directly to the non-inverting (+)
input terminal which means that the output gain of the amplifier becomes Positive in value in contrast
to the Inverting Amplifier previously explained, which has an output gain that is negative in value. The
result of this non-inverting amplifier is that the output signal is in-phase with the input signal.
Our team constructed a Non-Inverting Op-Amp Circuit with the use of a 5V input, 2 100 resistors, an LF
353 OP-amp, and a PB-505 breadboard. The circuit was connected to an Oscilloscope and a DC voltage
line was recorded to illustrate the amplification in voltage.

Figure 3. The circuit constructed used an LF 353 Op-Amp to produce an output of 15V from an input of
10V with a predicted gain of +10. The configuration produces a negative image of the input as reflected
in the -15V value of the output signal.

Figure 4. A graphical representation of an Inverting Amplifier, Vin = 5, Vout = +15V

Appendix A

Figure 5. Schematic representation of an Inverting Amplifier

Figure 6. Schematic representation of a Non-Inverting Amplifier

Theoretical Calculations

Inverting Op-Amp: two very important rules to remember about Inverting Amplifiers or any
operational amplifier for that matter and these are.

1. No Current Flows into the Input Terminals

2. The Differential Input Voltage is Zero as V1 = V2 = 0

Non-Inverting Op-Amp: