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UNIVERSITI TEKNIKAL MALAYSIA MELAKA

FAKULTI KEJURUTERAAN ELEKTRONIK DAN

KEJURUTERAAN KOMPUTER

DENE 2353
ELEKTRONIK GUNAAN

LAB SESSION 4
INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER

Prepared by:
Diploma Studies Department, FKEKK
(Revised 2018)
Learning Outcome

At the end of experiment, the students should be able to;

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Learning Outcome

At the end of this session , student should be able to :

1. Understand and explain the operation of an instrumentation amplifier,

2. Identify the effect of RG to change the total gain in an instrumentation amplifier

List of Equipment and Component

No Item Quantity
1 Breadboard 1
100K (R1,
2
R2)
10K (R3, R4,
4
R5, R6)
10k 1
2 Resistors 5k 1
2K 1
1K 1
500 1
200 1
100 1
3 Op-amp IC LM741 1
4 Oscilloscope 1
5 Function generator 1
6 Digital multimeter 1

Introduction

An instrumentation (or instrumentational) amplifier is a type of differential amplifier that

has been outfitted with input buffer amplifiers, which eliminate the need for input impedance
matching and thus make the amplifier particularly suitable for use in measurement and test
equipment. Additional characteristics include very low DC offset, low drift, low noise, very high
open-loop gain, very high common-mode rejection ratio, and very high input impedances.
Instrumentation amplifiers are used where great accuracy and stability of the circuit both short and
long-term are required.

Although the instrumentation amplifier is usually shown schematically identical to a

standard operational amplifier (op-amp), the electronic instrumentation amp is almost always
internally composed of 3 op-amps. These are arranged so that there is one op-amp to buffer each
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input (+,−), and one to produce the desired output with adequate impedance matching for the
function.

Procedure

Vout1

RG vout

Vout2

Figure 1 – An Instrumentation Amplifier

1. Construct circuit as shown in Figure 1. Supplies for op-amp are ± 15V.

2. Set vin1 =5mV, vin2 =10mV and vcm =225mV at 50kHz
3. Set RG = 100 and observe and record vout1, vout2 and vout.
4. Calculate total voltage gain of the circuit, Acl.
5. Repeat step 3 and 4 using RG = 200, 500, 1k, 2k, 5k and 10k.
6. Plot graphs vout1, vout2 and vout and Acl vs RG.
7. Explain your finding in discussion

Discussion
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