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AD8237 Recommended for New Designs
The AD8237 is a micropower, zero drift, rail-to-rail input and output instrumentation amplifier. The relative match of two resistors sets any gain from...
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The AD620 is a low cost, high accuracy instrumentation amplifier that requires only one external resistor to set gains of 1 to 10,000. Furthermore, the...
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The AD8421 is a low cost, low power, extremely low noise, ultralow bias current, high speed instrumentation amplifier that is ideally suited for a broad...
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  • Input Common Mode Voltage Range of In Amps
  • AD8221: FAQ
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Input Common Mode Voltage Range of In Amps

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My instrumentation amplifier works at lower gains, but it can't seem to reach the desired output value at higher gains.

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You are probably running into the input common mode voltage vs output voltage swing limitations of the part. Internal nodes can saturate in instrumentation amplifiers using a 3 op-amp structure, thus causing a limit on the output voltage. This is demonstrated by the hexagon plot of an in-amp. An example hexagon plot is given for the AD8226:


          

Note that maximum output swing can be attained when the input common mode voltage is at half-supply. To know more about how this works, you can check this video. Page 2-3 of the the Designer's Guide to Instrumentation Amplifiers also discusses this effect.

To get the desired output, you can either increase your supplies or decrease your gain. You could also use an in-amp that can operate with common mode voltage ranges extending to the supplies such as the AD8237 or the AD8420.

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