The Summing Amplifier
The Summing Amplifier is a very flexible circuit based upon the standard Inverting Operational Amplifier configuration. As its name suggests, the “summing amplifier” can be used for combining the voltage present on multiple inputs into a single output voltage.
We saw previously in the Inverting Operational Amplifier that the inverting amplifier has a single input voltage, ( Vin ) applied to the inverting input terminal. If we add more input resistors to the input, each equal in value to the original input resistor, Rin we end up with another operational amplifier circuit called a Summing Amplifier, “summing inverter” or even a “voltage adder” circuit as shown below.