Measurements & Electronic Instruments Laboratory Experiment Manual

Department of Electrical Engineering, I.I.T. Kharagpur

Experiment No. : 12

INSTRUMENTATION AMPLIFIER

Objective: To study the characteristics of an Instrumentation Amplifier.

Circuit diagram:

The circuit diagram of a 3 Op-amp. Instrumentation Amplifier is shown in Fig-

1. The output voltage can be expressed as,
𝑅4 2𝑅1
𝑉0 = (1+ ) (𝑉𝑖1 − 𝑉𝑖2 )
𝑅3 𝑅2

The differential gain can be adjusted by varying R2. The main advantage of an
Instrumentation Amplifier, (i) High differential gain, (ii) Large common mode
rejection, (iii) High input impedance and (iv) Moderate bandwidth.

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Procedure:

1. Construct the Instrumentation Amplifier as shown in Fig-1. This circuit

will provide approximately a differential gain of 100. Use 1% tolerance
resistances.
2. Connect the two input terminals to ground and measure the DC offset
voltage at V0. If required reduce the offset by using offset adjustments of
Op-amps.
3. Connect both the input terminals to +5V and note output due to the
common mode voltages. Compute the DC common mode gain.
4. Compute the small signal AC differential gain using the circuit in Fig-2
as follows:

The circuit will provide approximately Vi1 – Vi2 = 0.01V1. Apply 1V p-p
Sin wave from the function generator at 10Hz, 100Hz, 1 kHz, 10 kHz
and 100 kHz observe the output V0 by Oscilloscope. Compute differential
gain Ad for different frequencies. Plot the frequency response.
5. Compute the Ac common mode gain Ac by removing R5 and R6 in Fig-2,
at difference frequency mentioned above. Apply V1 = 10V p-p. Compute
CMRR for all the frequencies.
6. Study the pin configuration and performance of a single chip
Instrumentation Amplifier AD624.

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