Part Number:INA169
Tool/software:TINA-TI or Spice Models
Hi, I'm trying to design with the INA169 for use in a relatively high speed current control feedback loop. I require bandwidths well into the 100s of Khz, and the INA169 if operated with a low output gain (RL = 1K) can deliver the required performance and seems to be the only current sense architecture that achieves this bandwidth with the high Supply voltages I'm using (60V). However when I simulate with TINA, I see an output current in the order of 25uA, when I have zero input. I verified this with the input pins shorted as well as in circuit.
I need to amplify this output and must keep the gain of the INA169 very low in order to achieve the required bandwidth for the loop. Therefore to overcome this offset I will require a precision offset circuit, adding delay and noise, therefore I would like to avoid if possible.
Before I proceed further, could you please confirm that this output error (quiescent output current) is actually real, does the actual component do this? In the datasheet I only see details for output error as a percentage of differential input. This clearly shoots off in a negative manner as Vin falls towards zero. However if this error is a percentage of zero then it should theoretically be negligible. This is not what I see when I model in TINA.
What does the real IC do?
Thanks
Aidan