When it was first introduced in 1968, Fairchild’s 741 op-amp made quite a splash. And with good reason; it packed a bunch of components into a compact package, and the applications for it were ...

50 years ago a young Brit joined Fairchild where he was to design one of the most famous ICs ever made – the 741 op amp. Dave Fullagar had been working for the RRE and answered a Transitron ad. Tom ...

None of this is to take away from how important the 741 and other early op-amps were ... us in on what really matters when choosing an op-amp.

You can introduce a disturbance as shown above or you can temporarily replace the virtual op-amp with a real world part's model and see if latching occurs or not. The '741 model can serve nicely for ...

1. Shown is the standard op-amp schematic symbol. Op amps are usually powered in two ways: with a traditional dual ± voltage supply or a single supply (Fig. 2). The dual supply lets the output ...