A lot of texbooks don't teach Composite Amplifiers, but they are one of the most used circuit configurations to solve real world design poblems where you have multiple conflicting specifications. Opamp Tutorial Playlist:    • Opamps - Tutorials & Practicals   Cascaded Compound Amplifiers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvT9hHG17tQ SMD soldering video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzC12xtHuXo Forum: https://www.eevblog.com/forum/blog/eevblog-1609-composite-amplifier-tutorial-practical-demo/ 00:00 - Composite vs Compound Amplifiers 02:53 - How a Composite Amplifier works 05:09 - Why not just cascade them? 07:23 - This doesn't just apply to opamps 08:24 - An example with gain, and another way to look at it 09:37 - Composite gain vs stage gain 11:19 - What's the catch? + rule of thumb for stability 12:42 - Another example: Composite precision high bandwidth amplifier 14:50 - Breadboard demonstration of Composite vs Compound amplfiers 19:09 - Changing to Composite configuration and Magic Happens 20:07 - More magic as it compensates for the buffer drop too If you find my videos useful you may consider supporting the EEVblog on Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/eevblog Or with crypto: BTC: 33BsprBQNBtHuVzVwDmqWkpDjYnCouwASM ETH: 0x68114e40ff4dcdd384750500501e20acf3875f8c BCH: 35n9KBPw9T7M3NGzpS3t4nUYEf9HbRmkm4 USDC: 0x68114e40ff4dcdd384750500501e20acf3875f8c LTC: MJfK57ujxy55su4XicVGQc9wcEJf6mAoXF Web Site: http://www.eevblog.com/ Store: null Other channels: EEVblog2: null EEVdiscover: null T-Shirts: null #ElectronicsCreators #opamp #Tutorial