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How do transistors figure into op-amps?

Op-amps are made out of multi-transistor circuits. If we were to go through about another three or four lectures on multi-transistor circuits, we would cover how the various multi-transistor components of an op-amp (current mirrors, differential amplifiers) work. If this were a two-semester course, we'd be covering this, but unfortunately we are going to skip this material so that we can spend some time on digital electronics.

This Wikipedia article has a schematic of the 741 op-amp, which has a bunch of bipolar transistors in it.



Kate Scholberg 2017-03-30