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Intuitive analog circuit design : a problem-solving approach using design case studies /

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This book reflects Dr. Thompson's twenty years of experience designing and teaching analog circuit design, and is an outgrowth of course notes from his graduate-level analog circuit design course taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute entitled "Analog Circuits and Intuition." In th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thompson, Marc T.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier Newnes, [2006]
Subjects:
Electronic circuit design.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of contents
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction and motivation; Signal processing basics: Review of Bode plots, Review of pole-zero plots,Second-order systems,Relationship between bandwidth and risetime; Review of bipolar device physics: Intrinsic semiconductor, Electrons and holes, Drift and diffusion, Doping and its effect on carrier concentrations; Bipolar device models:
  • Diode large-signal model, Diode small signal model,
  • Transistor large-signal model, Transistor small-signal model, Transistor charge storage; Review of feedback systems: Block diagrams, Routh stability criteria, Bode-plot method for determining stability of feedback systems, Compensation techniques, Design example
  • - Photodiode amplifier, Design example
  • - operational amplifier; Bipolar transistor amplifiers: Common-emitter amplifier, Bandwidth of common-emitter amplifier, Other building blocks; Bandwidth estimation techniques: Dominant poles, Method of open-circuit time constants, Method of short-circuit time constants, Design example
  • - high frequency amplifier, Design example
  • - high frequency gain of +5 amplifier with high current output; Transistor switching and switching speed estimation: Models, Charge-control model, Base-current driven switch, Voltage-driven switch,
  • Emitter current switching, Design example
  • - semiconductor diode switching; Transistor extended models: Development of extended model, Other building blocks, Design example
  • - high gain amplifier; CMOS amplifiers: MOSFET,MOSFET large-signal model, MOSFET small-signal model; Advanced transistor amplifier design techniques:Bootstrapping, Current switching,Current mirrors; Operational amplifier topologies: Basic bipolar amplifier, Basic CMOS amplifier, Design example: bipolar operational amplifier; Operational amplifier limitations
  • - real-world op-amps:
  • Gain, Voltage offset, Input current, Common-mode rejection ratio (CMRR), Power supply rejection ratio (PSRR, Output impedance, Frequency response;
  • Operational amplifier circuit potpourri: Standard topologies, Differential amplifier, Sallen-Key circuit; Current-feedback op-amps; Analog filtering:
  • Topologies, Implementation methods, Lowpass to bandpass and lowpass to highpass transformations,
  • Design example
  • - 1 MHz lowpass video filter,
  • Design example
  • - 2 MHz bandwidth, 3.58 MHz centered bandpass filter; PC board layout, hints and rules-of-thumb: Basics of grounding, Impedance of a PC board trace, Power supply bypassing; Passive components
  • - real world issues: Resistors, Capacitors,Inductors; Use of circuit analogies: Mechanical circuit analogies, Thermal circuits, Magnetic circuits; Other random useful design techniques: Middlebrook's extra element theorem, Cramer's rule.
  • Introduction and motivation
  • Review of signal-processing basics
  • Review of diode physics and the ideal (and later, nonideal) diode
  • Bipolar transistor models
  • Basic bipolar transistor amplifiers and biasing
  • Bandwidth estimation techniques and the method of open-circuit time constants
  • Advanced transistor amplifier techniques
  • High-gain bipolar amplifiers and BJT current mirrors
  • Introduction to MOSFET devices and basic MOS amplifiers
  • Bipolar transistor switching and the charge control model
  • Review of feedback systems
  • Basic operational amplifier topologies and a case study
  • Review of current feedback operational amplifiers
  • Analog low-pass filters
  • Review of passive components and a case study in PC board layout
  • Other useful design techniques and loose-ends.