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Basic video amplifier circuits
               
              
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                Driving Video Lines - When does a trace or a wire become a 
                transmission line? Bandwidth, characteristic impedance, ESD, and 
                shoot-through considerations for selecting the proper video 
                driver, receiver, mux-amp, or buffer. This application note 
                discusses on those topics and gives recommendations for suitable 
                video line driving components.   
                
 
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                Fast, Stable Wideband FET Amplifier - a gain-trimmable 
                wideband FET amplifier with very good speed, high input 
                impedance, and excellent dc stability under all conditions, more 
                than adequate performance for driving video cable, high-speed 
                data converters, etc.
 
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                New Amplifiers Simplify Wideband Techniques - article 
                describes some video amplifier ICs from Maxim and applications 
                for them like coaxial cable driving and twisted pair cable video 
                transmission   
 
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                Positive Feedback Terminates Cables - positive feedback 
                along with a series output resistor can provide a controlled 
                output impedance from an op-amp circuit, with lower losses than 
                would result from using an actual resistor   
 
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                Positive Feedback Terminates Cables - Positive feedback 
                along with a series output resistor can provide a controlled 
                output impedance from an op-amp circuit, with lower losses than 
                would result from using an actual resistor. The circuit is 
                useful when driving coaxial cables that must be terminated at 
                each end in their characteristic impedance, which is often 50 
                ohms.   
                
 
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                Positive Feedback Terminates Cables - Positive feedback 
                along with a series output resistor can provide a controlled 
                output impedance from an op-amp circuit, with lower losses than 
                would result from using an actual resistor. The circuit is 
                useful when driving coaxial cables that must be terminated at 
                each end in their characteristic impedance, which is often 50 
                ohms.   
 
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                Video Amplifier - This is an Video amplifier which has been 
                constructed by a single special IC LH0024.   
                
 
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                Video amplifier circuit from discrete transistors   
 
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                Video amplifier with LH0032   
 
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                Video amplifier with LM359N   
 
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                Video Circuits Collection - many video amplifier circuits in 
                pdf format, includes video transmission over UTP   
 
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                Video signal emphasis - With this circuit we can 
                amplification selectively the high signal of picture frequencies 
                [Video] with result bigger clarity than this. This circuit has 
                adjustable gain and frequnecy response equalization.   
 
  
               
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Video signal splitting to multiple 
              monitors
               
              
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Coaxial cable video transmission
               
              
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                Camera power and video use same coax cable - it is 
                convenient to run both the power and the video signal through 
                one coax cable but it needs some extra electronics on both ends 
                of the coaxial cable   
 
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                Driving Video Lines - When does a trace or a wire become a 
                transmission line? Bandwidth, characteristic impedance, ESD, and 
                shoot-through considerations for selecting the proper video 
                driver, receiver, mux-amp, or buffer.   
 
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                Single Coax Carries Video, Power, and Channel-Select Signals 
                - This single coaxial system carries power to a remote location, 
                selects one of eight video signals, and returns the selected 
                signal.   
 
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                Transconductance Amplifiers Simplify Wideband Techniques - 
                This article describes the unique architecture used in the 
                MAX435/MAX436 transconductance amplifier and how this applies to 
                traditional applications as well as new ones. Sample circuits 
                are shown using the MAX435/MAX436 as a phase splitter, an 
                impedance transformer, a coaxial cable driver, and as a twisted 
                pair cable driver for distances over 5000 feet.   
 
  
               
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Video signal isolation
               
              
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Differential video signals on UTP cable
               
              
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                Circuit adapts differential input to drive coax - uses an 
                HFA1100 or HFA1105 to convert a balanced input signal to a 
                single-ended output signal, uses positive feedback to 
                characteristic-impedance matching while increasing the available 
                output swing, as compared with using a simple series termination 
                resistor   
 
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                Color video travels on twisted-pair cable - telephone lines 
                and local-area networks commonly use inexpensive twisted-pair 
                cables, video-system designers can also take advantage of this 
                low-cost cable to transmit composite-color-video signals using 
                this circuit   
 
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                Color video travels on twisted-pair cable - circuit based on 
                few LM6181 amplifiers   
 
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                IC forms differential line driver/receiver - you can use the 
                HFA1212 dual video buffer to implement differential line drivers 
                and receivers with a minimum of external components   
 
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                Instrumentation amplifier has 290-MHz gain-bandwidth product 
                - very high frequency instrumentation amplifier based on 
                video-difference amplifier   
 
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                New Amplifiers Simplify Wideband Techniques - example 
                drixing circuit for coaxial cables and twisted pair video 
                transmission   
 
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                Send Color Video 1000 Feet Over Low Cost Twisted-Pair - It 
                is now possible to send and receive color composite video 
                signals appreciable distances on a low cost twisted-pair. This 
                technique is similar to the push toward twisted-pair cables in 
                EtherNet systems to replace costly coaxial cable connections. 
                The cost advantage of these techniques is significant.   
 
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                Transconductance Amplifiers Simplify Wideband Techniques - 
                This article describes the unique architecture used in the 
                MAX435/MAX436 transconductance amplifier and how this applies to 
                traditional applications as well as new ones. Sample circuits 
                are shown using the MAX435/MAX436 as a phase splitter, an 
                impedance transformer, a coaxial cable driver, and as a twisted 
                pair cable driver for distances over 5000 feet.   
 
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                EL4583 Triple Differential Twisted-Pair Driver with Common-Mode 
                Sync Encoding - The EL4543 is a high bandwidth triple 
                differential amplifier with integrated encoding of video sync 
                signals. The high bandwidth enables differential signalling onto 
                standard twisted-pair or coax with very low harmonic distortion, 
                while internal feedback ensures balanced gain and phase at the 
                outputs reducing radiated EMI and harmonics. The datasheet 
                includes CAT-5 SXGA Video Transmission circuit.    
 
  
               
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Video to fiber
               
              
             
             
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