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 wer… ...

The 741 was the first two stage, internally compensated, high-gain, low-cost, op amp. “I thought up the idea of internal compensation to avoid the instability seen in the 709,” said Fullagar. “The ...

In 1976, Texas Instruments came out with the TL084, a four JFET op-amp IC each with similar circuitry to Fairchild’s very popular single op-amp 741. But even though the 741 has been covered i… ...

The 741 op-amp IC, priced under $1, came to market in 1968, moving the device from novelty to the mainstream of design. See Fig. 1 for the functional diagram of the 741. Focusing on just linear ...

The moral of the story is to check for this condition. 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 ...