Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities

Jim Williams9780750691666, 0-7506-9-166-2

This book is far more than just another tutorial or reference guide – it’s a tour through the world of analog design, combining theory and applications with the philosophies behind the design process. Readers will learn how leading analog circuit designers approach problems and how they think about solutions to those problems. They’ll also learn about the ‘analog way’ – a broad, flexible method of thinking about analog design tasks.A comprehensive and useful guide to analog theory and applications.Covers visualizing the operation of analog circuits.Looks at how to rapidly determine workable approximations of analog circuit parameters.

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Table of contents :
Cover……Page 1
Half Title Page……Page 2
Title Page……Page 4
Copyright……Page 5
Table of Contents……Page 8
Preface……Page 12
Contributors……Page 14
Part 1: Introduction……Page 20
1. Barometers and Analog Design……Page 22
2. Analogs Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, or Metaphors of the Continuum……Page 24
3. It’s an Analog World – Or is it?……Page 34
4. Is Analog Circuit Design Dead?……Page 36
Part 2: What is Analog Design?……Page 40
5. On Being the Machine……Page 42
6. Reflections of a Dinosaur……Page 50
7. Max Wien, Mr. Hewlett, and a Rainy Sunday Afternoon……Page 62
Part 3: The Making of an Analog Engineer……Page 76
8. True Analog Circuit Design……Page 78
9. The Story of the P2 – The First Successful Solid-State Operational Amplifier with Picoampere Input Currents……Page 86
10. Propagation of the Race (of Analog Circuit Designers)……Page 98
11. The Process of Analog Design……Page 108
12. Analog Design Discipline: A Tale of Three Diodes……Page 112
13. Should Ohm’s Law be Repealed?……Page 118
Part 4: Intuitions and Insights……Page 124
14. Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers……Page 126
15. Understanding Why Things Don’t Work……Page 142
16. Building Blocks for the Linear IC Designer: Linear Synthesis for Monolithic Circuits……Page 146
17. How to Design Analog Circuits Without a Computer or a Lot of Paper……Page 168
18. Starting to Like Electronics in Your Twenties……Page 188
19. Where Do Little Circuits Come From?……Page 196
20. The Process of Analog Design……Page 206
21. The Art of Good Analog Circuit Design: Some Basic Problems and Possible Solutions……Page 212
22. My Approach to Feedback Loop Design……Page 218
23. The Zoo Circuit: History, Mistakes, and Some Monkeys Design a Circuit……Page 234
Part 5: Techniques, Tips, and Applications……Page 250
24. Reality Driven Analog Integrated Circuit Design……Page 252
25. Current-Feedback Amplifiers……Page 280
26. Analog Extensions of Digital Time and Frequency Generation……Page 296
27. Some Practical Aspects of SPICE Modeling for Analog Circuits……Page 318
28. Design of Crystal Oscillator Circuits……Page 352
29. A Tale of Voltage-to-Frequency Converters……Page 368
30. Op Amps and Their Characteristics……Page 380
Index……Page 406
Back Cover……Page 410