Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities

410 Pages·1991·22.334 MB·English

by  Jim Williams

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Analog Circuit Design

Analog
Circuit Design
Art, Science, and Personalities
Edited by
Jim Williams
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Analog circuit design: art, science, and personalities / edited by
Jim Williams.
p. cm. - (The EDN series for design engineers)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-7506-9 166-2
1. Linear integrated circuits-Maintenancea nd repair.
2. Electronic circuit design. I. Williams, Jim, 1948-.
11. Series
TK7874.A548 1991 9 1-9930
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1. Analogue circuits, Design
I. Williams, Jim 1948- 11. Series
621.3815
ISBN 0-7506-9640-0
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Contents
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Preface xi
Contributors xiii
One Introduction
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1. Barometers and Analog Design 3
Alexander Calandra
2. Analogs Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, or
Metaphors of the Continuum 5
George A. Philbrick
3. It's An Analog World-Or Is it? 15
Dan Sheingold
4. Is Analog Circuit Design Dead? 17
Jim Williams
5. On Being the Machine 23
Bernard Gordon
6. Reflections of a Dinosaur 31
Samuel Wilensky
7. Max Wien, Mr. Hewlett, and a Rainy Sunday Afternoon 43
Jim Williams
Three The Making of an Analog Engineer
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8. True Analog Circuit Design 59
Tom Hornak
9. The Story of the P2 (The First Successful Solid-state Operational
Amplifier With Picoampere Input Currents) 67
Bob Pease
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Contents
10. Propagation of the Race (of Analog Circuit Designers) 79
Jim Roberge
11. The Process of Analog Design 89
Rod Russell
12. Analog Design Discipline: A Tale of Three Diodes 93
Milton Wilcox
13. Should Ohm's Law Be Repealed? 99
Jim Williams
Four Intuitions and Insights
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14. Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers 107
John Addis
15. Understanding Why Things Don't Work 123
Bob Blauschild
16. Building Blocks for the Linear IC Designer:
Linear Synthesis for Monolithic Circuits 127
A. Paul Brokaw
17. How to Design Analog Circuits Without a Computer
or a Lot of Paper 149
Richard S. Burwen
18. Starting to Like Electronics in Your Twenties 169
George Erdi
19. Where Do Little Circuits Come From? 177
Barrie Gilbert
20. The Process of Analog Design 187
Garry Gillette
21. The Art of Good Analog Circuit Design-Some Basic Problems
and Possible Solutions 193
Barry Hilton
22. My Approach to Feedback Loop Design 199
Phil Perkins
23. The Zoo Circuit: History, Mistakes, and
Some Monkeys Design a Circuit 215
Jim Williams
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Contents
Five Techniques, Tips, and Applications
24. Reality-Driven Analog Integrated Circuit Design 233
Derek F. Bowers
25. Current-Feedback Amplifiers 261
Sergio Franco
26. Analog Extensions of Digital Time and
Frequency Generation 277
Garry Gillette
27. Some Practical Aspects of SPICE Modeling for Analog
Circuits 299
E. J. Kennedy
28. Design of Crystal Oscillator Circuits 333
Robert f. Matthys
29. A Tale of Voltage-to-Frequency Converters
(Ancient History) 349
Rob Pease
30. Op Amps and Their Characteristics 361
Dan Sheingold
Index 387
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