Diodes have long served as adequate rectifiers despite necessarily large input voltages and poor accuracy. The most common configuration for a simple diode peak detector (Figure 1) provides a mediocre 10% error for very large input voltages (Figure 2). If the diode is linearized, the necessary input voltage is only reduced to 1V peak for the same 10% error (Figure 2). However, development of high frequency op amps allows feedback circuitry to provide better accuracy and more sensitivity at the input. With feedback (Figure 3), peak detection is feasible at input voltages as small as 50 mVrms.