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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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Analog Circuit Design
Analog Circuit Design Art, Science, and Personalities
Edited by
Jim Williams
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Buttenvorth Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Science. Copyright 1991 by Elsevier Science USA. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher.
$3 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data 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-Maintenanceand repair. 2. Electronic circuit design. I. Williams, Jim, 1948-. 11. Series 9 1-9930 TK7874.A548 1991 CIP 621,381’5-dc20 British Library Cataloguing-in-PublicationData
1. Analogue circuits, Design I. Williams, Jim 1948- 11. Series 621.3815 ISBN 0-7506-9640-0 The publisher offers special discounts on bulk orders of this book. For information, please contact: Manager of Special Sales Elsevier Science 200 Wheeler Road Burlington, MA 01803 Tell 781-313-4700 Fax: 781-313-4802 10
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For Celia, Michael, and Bonillas. These are my friends, and this is what we do.
Bob Widlar's contributions, albeit not received for this book, are acknowledged by all.
Contents .....................................................................................................................
Preface xi Contributors xiii
One Introduction
............................................................................................... 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
............................................................................................... 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 vii
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