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… ...

It is pin compatible with the 741, meaning 7 of the 8 pins are laid exactly as they are on the 741. However, I needed to pipe in -12V for bias, so the NC pin became ground and the V- pin is where ...

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 ...

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 ...