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Of course National Semiconductor had a chip for this, the LMC669 Auto-Zero. https://www.electronicsurplus.com/national-semiconductor-corp-lmc669cd-ic-auto-zero
by analog31 2y ago
Of course National Semiconductor had a chip for this, the LMC669 Auto-Zero.
https://www.electronicsurplus.com/national-semiconductor-corp-lmc669cd-ic-auto-zero-package-16-cdip-gold-face https://www.electronicsurplus.com/national-semiconductor-cor...
- kragen 2y agoThat's only rated good to 5 μV, according to the datasheet. You'd probably be better off with a non-auto-zero LM324B, whose worst-case Vos is rated at 3 μV IIRC. Of course it didn't exist at the time (01989) which is why National made the LMC669. But the potential advantage that building a chopper (or auto-zero) out of ordinary opamps would be that you don't need to source, order, and await specialized chips. A long-discontinued bolt-on auto-zero for a regular opamp has almost all the disadvantages of just buying an auto-zero opamp.