Analog Circuit Design, Volume 2: Immersion in the Black Art of Analog Design

Analog circuit and system design today is more essential than ever before. With the growth of digital systems, wireless communications, complex industrial and automotive systems, designers are being challenged to develop sophisticated analog solutions. This comprehensive source book of circuit design solutions aids engineers with elegant and practical design techniques that focus on common analog challenges. The book’s in-depth application examples provide insight into circuit design and application solutions that you can apply in today’s demanding designs.

• This is the companion volume to the successful Analog Circuit Design: A Tutorial Guide to Applications and Solutions (October 2011), which has sold over 5000 copies in its the first 6 months of since publication. It extends the Linear Technology collection of application notes, which provides analog experts with a full collection of reference designs and problem solving insights to apply to their own engineering challenges
• Full support package including online resources (LTSpice)
• Contents include more application notes on power management, and data conversion and signal conditioning circuit solutions, plus an invaluable circuit collection of reference designs

Table of Contents

PART 1: Power Management
Section 1. Power Management Tutorials
Chapter 1. Performance enhancement techniques for three-terminal regulators
Chapter 2. Load transient response testing for voltage regulators: Practical considerations for testing and evaluating results
Chapter 3. A closed-loop, wideband, 100A active load: Brute force marries controlled speed
Section 2. Switching Regulator Design
Chapter 4. Some thoughts on DC/DC converters
Chapter 5. Theoritical considerations for buck mode switching regulators
Section 3. Linear Regulator Design
Chapter 6. High efficiency linear regulators
Section 4: High Voltage and High Current Applications
Chapter 7. High voltage, low noise, DC/DC converters: A kilovolt with 100 microvolts of noise
Section 5: Powering Illumination Devices
Chapter 8. A fourth generation of LCD backlight technology: Component and measurement improvements refine performance
Chapter 9. Simple circuitry for cellular telephone/camera flash illumination: A practical guide for successfully implementing flashlamps
Section 6: Automotive and Industrial Power Design
Chapter 10. Extending the input voltage range of powerpath circuits for automotive and industrial applications

PART 2: Data Conversion, Signal Conditioning and High Frequency/RF
Section 1: Data Conversion
Chapter 11. Circuitry for single cell operation
Chapter 12. Component and measurement advances ensure 16-bit DAC settling time: The art of timely accuracy
Chapter 13. Fidelity testing for A→D converters
Section 2: Signal Conditioning
Chapter 14. Applications for a new power buffer
Chapter 15. Thermal techniques in measurement and control circuitry
Chapter 16. Methods of measuring op amp settling time
Chapter 17. High speed comparator techniques
Chapter 18. Designs for high performance voltage-to-frequency converters
Chapter 19. Unique IC buffer enhances op amp designs, tames fast amplifiers
Chapter 20. Power gain stages for monolithic amplifiers
Chapter 21. Composite amplifiers
Chapter 22. A simple method of designing multiple order all pole bandpass filters by cascading 2nd order sections
Chapter 23. FilterCAD user’s manual, version 1.10
Chapter 24. 30 nanosecond settling time measurement for a precision wideband amplifier: Quantifying prompt certainty
Chapter 25. Application and optimization of a 2GHz differential amplifier/ADC driver
Chapter 26. 2 nanosecond, 0.1% resolution settling time measurement for wideband amplifiers: Quantifying quick quiescence
Chapter 27. An introduction to acoustic thermometry: An air filled olive jar teaches signal conditioning
Section 3: High Frequency/RF Design
Chapter 28. Low noise varactor biasing with switching regulators: Vanquishing villainous vitiators vis-à-vis vital varactors
Chapter 29. Low cost coupling methods for RF power detectors replace directional couplers
Chapter 30. Improving the output accuracy over temperature for RMS power detectors

PART 3. Circuit Collections
Chapter 31. Circuit techniques for clock sources
Chapter 32. Measurement and control circuit collection: Diapers and designs on the night shift
Chapter 33. Circuit collection, volume I
Chapter 34. Video circuit collection
Chapter 35. Practical circuitry for measurement and control problems: Circuits designed for a cruel and unyielding world
Chapter 36. Circuit collection, volume III: Data conversion, interface and signal processing
Chapter 37. Circuitry for signal conditioning and power conversion: Designs from a once lazy sabbatical
Chapter 38. Circuit collection, volume V: Data conversion, interface and signal conditioning products
Chapter 39. Signal sources, conditioners and power circuitry
Chapter 40. Current sense circuit collection: Making sense of current
Chapter 41. Power conversion, measurement and pulse circuits: Tales from the laboratory notebook