Connecting Dual Supply Opamps in a Single Supply Circuit with Transistors

[m718]

I have a circuit with single supply lm324 and I need to replace them with precision opamps but I can only get dual supply ones. How would I connect the dual supply opamps in the circuit?
(the circuit also has PNP and NPN transistors).

 

[Phrak]

Use a precision band gap reference to generate a virtual ground if feasible. They come in several flavors, 1.23V, 2.5V, 5.0V, etc.

Exactly how you can implement what you want depends on a lot of factors, like how much precision, what frequency range, where does the precision have to be, etc.

 

[berkeman]

What power rails do you have available? Why can't you get single-supply CMOS opamps? Have you done much searching? What voltage range is your signal, and what kind of gain/functionality are you using the opamp for?

 

[Mike_In_Plano]

For single supply operation, I usually make a "virtual ground." Make a resistor divider from Vcc to ground and bypass it with a cap to ground (2x100K resistors and a .1uF). Then, follow it with a unity gain op-amp buffer (use a cheap op amp).

Put a 33 ohm resistor between the output of the op-amp and the "virtual ground," and bypass the virtual ground to real round with a 47 - 100uF cap.

There are cheaper ways, and there are better ways, but you can usually depend on this method without taking more into consideration.

- Mike