On Sat, 3 Sep 2005, Matthew Miller wrote:

> Hi everyone,
>
> In my thread last week Peter posted a schematic for a virtual shunt current
> measurement circuit. I wanted to know more about this type of circuit, but
> search on "virtual shunt" combined with someother terms turned up no good
> links. Could this type of circuit have a different common name?

The virtual shunt name is just a name. The circuit uses the property of 
any opamp circuit with negative feedback, to zero the voltage between 
its + and - inputs. Any basic opamp text will explain this at some 
length.

Peter
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