This chip will RUIN your circuit

Published at : 23 Dec 2025

This is a video about op-amp non-idealities including power supply rails, output voltage swing, input offset voltage, slew rate and gain-bandwidth product. I also suggest several op amps that you could use instead of an LM741 because the LM741 has very poor performance by modern standards.

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0:00 Introduction
0:47 Brief background on the 741
1:23 People still teach op amps with the LM741
1:45 Inconvenient power supply voltages
2:10 Op amp output voltage swing
4:06 MCP600x recommendation
5:00 Input offset voltages
7:15 TLC081 recommendation
8:08 Op amp slew rate
9:47 Gain-bandwidth product
12:22 Slew rate versus gain-bandwidth product limitations
12:46 NE5532 and LM4562 recommendations
13:06 There are even more non-idealities to learn
13:44 Pleading teachers to stop recommending the LM741

EEVBlog videos about op amp non idealities:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDe_BHvRpks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0jkPLuFdnM

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