In the dual supply schematic, there's no reference for the input voltage. Just as a for-instance, if there's no reference to ground on the input side, then you could be sending in 1000V+1*sin(x) which would result in the op-amps being railed for the entire time. Once it's got a good reference, it will be just sin(x) and shouldn't be railed so long as the resistors are chosen well.
The single supply also has this issue. The input is AC coupled which is fine, but the only place current to go is into or out of the output of the op-amp. If you've already railed it, then it won't be able to move from the rail.
You'll want both circuits to have some kind of path to ground so that when the signal is 0V input, it will level out to 0V output.
RT should be split into two resistors with GND sent to the middle of it. CM on the single supply should likely be connected to ground probably through a resistor.
There are a bunch of separate questions in the text here, so I'll talk about those too.
My first question is that if I use both op amp of the first AD712, then will it cause any issue? Can one opamp in an IC affect the other opamp(s) in the same package?
This won't do any harm - the IC manufacturers test their parts as if you'll be using both of the components.
I understand that voltage divider with these resistances will be fairly linear. Is this correct?
Hmm. The issue I see is that you're loading your low pass filter. This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it might not do what you expect - you no longer have an RC filter, but an R(C || R) circuit, which has a different response.
Is it possible to change your circuit so that the low pass filter is built into the buffer? For example, you could use a generic 1st order active low pass filter:
Then, your voltage divider won't have an effect on the low pass filter (since the op-amp can supply the extra current to the R||C branch, leaving your voltage divider untouched).
I also understand that I lose the resolution, as the ADC can read 0.0049 volts as-is (10bit ADC with vref = 5v) which means that the ADC should be able to read 0.01volt difference when voltage is divided (.01 at input will be 0.0040 at divider and .02 will be 0.0090 at divider).
Right - that's the point. This way your voltage steps are bigger (bad) but your maximum measurement is higher (good).
Does the above sound logical or am I missing something fundamental?
This all makes sense to me.
All Op Amps are rail to rail with supply of +12 and -12. What if I supply +5..+5.5 to last buffer op amp so that its output never exceeds its rail which can allow me to skip the schottky diodes?
This could work. Be careful, though: most rail-to-rail op-amps can only get close to their rails when they're not supplying much current to their output. If your output is +4.95 V with a +5 V rail, when your ADC pulls in a spike of current, the output will momentarily drop. I don't know how far - this depends on how much current your ADC takes and how good your op-amp is near the rail - but it's something to think about.
How much gain can I get from DC perspective without any problems?(I tried to understand the gain-vs-frequency charts but I cant get it. DC is 0 Hz or 1 Hz)
I don't really know how to answer this - it might be a stability question, and I don't have much experience there. DC is 0 Hz.
Should I put some bypass capacitors on signal line? e.g. after trans-impedance amp , put a small cap in parallel to let the high frequency signal (noise) to ground out...
how do I decide the value of Capacitor such that it does not cause delay in my signal?
You're already doing this! Half of your low pass filter is a capacitor to ground.
You can choose a capacitor based on the amount of resistance around it. As you know, a resistor and capacitor in series make a low pass filter, which has some amount of phase shift associated with it. The decision is essentially a tradeoff between the cutoff frequency and how much phase shift you can tolerate at your signal's frequencies.
side note: this is an enormous question. If you can narrow down your question into something more specific, you'll get much better + faster answers. A lot of people will stop reading as soon as they see a wall of text, so the shorter your question is, the better.
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