Do you think that today it is still necessary to teach about a Norton amplifier?

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s. Béatrice Marianne Ewalds-Kvist

Dear Josef,

Out of curiosity I looked up this Norton amplifier and it was still on a paper from 2013!

ww.ti.com SNOSBT4C –MAY 1999–REVISED MARCH 2013

LM359 Dual, High Speed, Programmable, Current Mode (Norton) Amplifiers

I do not know what it means in your area of research but to a layman (-woman) it does not seem to be a very out-dated information. If you think it takes up too much time from teaching newer intervention, give it to the students to read at home?

Josef Punčochář

Thanks for your quick feedback.

Certainly, data from 2013 are not historical. But the structure of this circuit is historic. Today CFA circuits (or VFA based on CFA) are certainly better. In addition, Norton amplifier "requires" a somewhat unique approach to a quiescent point.

And a reading at home is not so bad idea.

Sometimes students try to invent old interventions just because they do not know that they exist:)

I envy you your inquisitive students. :-))