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About the M377, [[John Addis]] says: | About the M377, [[John Addis]] says: | ||
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The M377 was a single channel plugin on a chip with 0 V common mode input and output voltages, | |||
excellent variable gain control, two four pole bandwidth limits, | excellent variable gain control, two four pole bandwidth limits, three outputs which could be separately inverted and turned on or off. | ||
three outputs which could be separately inverted and turned on or off. | |||
It was the first wideband analog IC with level shift on chip (allowing 0 V common mode input and output and without PNP transistors), | |||
first wideband amplifier with any on-chip bandwidth limit selection, first to have more than two fixed gain settings (it has six), | |||
It was the first wideband analog IC with level shift on chip (allowing 0 V common mode input and output and | first to require only one transient response adjustment (no thermals), and the first to have a highly linear relationship between a control voltage and gain. It also had excellent overdrive recovery. | ||
without PNP transistors), first wideband amplifier with any on-chip bandwidth limit selection, | |||
first to have more than two fixed gain settings (it has six), | ''(See also [[M777|John's comments on the M777 successor]].)'' | ||
and the first to have a highly linear relationship between a control voltage and gain. | |||
It also had excellent overdrive recovery. | |||
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