Part Number:OPA2376
Hi, Experts:
My customer is using OPA2376 to drive a TOSA (transmitter optical sub-assembly). The detailed application schematic is below.
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The V_DAC2 is biased in the range of 0.4V to 1.2V. The TOSA_CTL_2 is a PWM signal at a frequency of 115.2KHz which drives a SPST switch, hence the voltage waveform at the positive input of OPA2376 (U35-A) will be a square wave. The output of OPA2376 drives a BJT, hence the collector current is also a square current wave. In that sense, the TOSA is turned ON/OFF along with the collector current.
The problem is customer found that in some devices, the collector current shows ringing at the raising edge as below picture (they use optical receiver to receive the TOSA output signal, convert it to electric voltage, then feed to scope), while other devices don’t have the ringing problem. If they replace the “bad” OPA2376 with a “good” one when raising issue happens, the problem can go away.
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When TOSA_CTL_2 is low, the pin 5 of OPA2376(+ input) will be forced to ground. The voltage of pin 6 of OPA2376 (- input) is a little bit higher than 0V due to the voltage divider R284 (1M) and R291 (10k), hence the BJT Q245 is off. OPA2376 is saturated in the state of open loop comparator.
When TOSA_CTL_2 is high, OPA works in close loop mode since the + input is properly biased, and the collector current will be set correctly.
It looks like a stability problem of OPA2376? Or the ringing is caused by switching between open loop comparator mode and close loop mode?
Thanks a lot for your kind suggestions! Please let me know anything I can try to help the debug.
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