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 challenged to develop sophisticated analog solutions. This comprehensive source book of circuit design solutions will aid systems designers with elegant and practical design techniques that focus on common circuit design 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.
1. Introduction 2. Foreword 3. Part 1: Power Management 4. Section 1. Power Management Tutorials 5. 1. Ceramic input capacitors can cause overvoltage transients 6. 2. Minimizing switching regulator residue in linear regulator outputs: Banishing those accursed spikes 7. 3. Power conditioning for notebook and palmtop systems 8. 4. 2-Wire virtual remote sensing for voltage regulators: Clairvoyance marries remote sensing 9. Section 2. Switching Regulator Design 10. 5. LT1070 design manual 11. 6. Switching regulators for poets: A gentle guide for the trepidatious 12. 7. Step-down switching regulators 13. 8. A monolithic switching regulator with 100μV output noise: “Silence is the perfectest herald of joy ...” 14. 9. Powering complex FPGA-based systems using highly integrated DC/DC μModule regulator systems: Part 1 of 2 Circuit and electrical performance 15. 10. Powering complex FPGA-based systems using highly integrated DC/DC µModule regulator systems: Part 2 of 2 Thermal performance and layout 16. 11. Diode turn-on time induced failures in switching regulators: Never Has so Much Trouble Been Had By so Many with so Few Terminals 17. Section 3. Linear Regulator Design 18. 12. Performance verification of low noise, low dropout regulators: Silence of the amps 19. Section 4. High Voltage and High Current Applications 20. 13. Parasitic capacitance effects in step-up transformer design 21. 14. High efficiency, high density, PolyPhase converters for high current applications 22. Section 5. Powering Lasers and Illumination Devices 23. 15. Ultracompact LCD backlight inverters: A svelte beast cuts high voltage down to size 24. 16. A thermoelectric cooler temperature controller for fiber optic lasers: Climatic pampering for temperamental lasers 25. 17. Current sources for fiber optic lasers: A compendium of pleasant current events 26. 18. Bias voltage and current sense circuits for avalanche photodiodes: Feeding and reading the APD 27. Section 6. Automotive and Industrial Power Design 28. 19. Developments in battery stack voltage measurement: A simple solution to a not so simple problem 29. Part 2: Data conversion, signal conditioning and high frequency/RF 30. Section 1. Data Conversion 31. 20. Some techniques for direct digitization of transducer outputs 32. 21. The care and feeding of high performance ADCs: get all the bits you paid for 33. 22. A standards lab grade 20-bit DAC with 0.1ppm/°C drift: The dedicated art of digitizing one part per million 34. 23. Delta sigma ADC bridge measurement techniques 35. 24. 1ppm settling time measurement for a monolithic 18-bit DAC: When does the last angel stop dancing on a speeding pinhead? 36. Section 2. Signal Conditioning 37. 25. Applications for a switched-capacitor instrumentation building block 38. 26. Application considerations and circuits for a new chopper-stabilized op amp 39. 27. Designing linear circuits for 5V single supply operation 40. 28. Application considerations for an instrumentation lowpass filter 41. 29. Micropower circuits for signal conditioning 42. 30. Thermocouple measurement 43. 31. Take the mystery out of the switched-capacitor filter: The system designer’s filter compendium 44. 32. Bridge circuits: Marrying gain and balance 45. 33. High speed amplifier techniques: A designer’s companion for wideband circuitry 46. Preface 47. Introduction 48. Perspectives on high speed design 49. Mr. Murphy’s gallery of high speed amplifier problems 50. Tutorial section 51. Applications Section I — Amplifiers 52. Applications Section II — Oscillators 53. Applications section III — Data conversion 54. APPLICATIONS SECTION IV — MISCELLANEOUS CIRCUITS 55. References 56. 34. A seven-nanosecond comparator for single supply operation: Guidance for putting civilized speed to work 57. 35. Understanding and applying voltage references 58. 36. Instrumentation applications for a monolithic oscillator: A clock for all reasons 59. 37. Slew rate verification for wideband amplifiers: The taming of the slew 60. 38. Instrumentation circuitry using RMS-to-DC converters: RMS converters rectify average results 61. 39. 775 nanovolt noise measurement for a low noise voltage reference: Quantifying silence 62. Section 3. High Frequency/RF Design 63. 40. LT5528 WCDMA ACPR, AltCPR and noise measurements 64. 41. Measuring phase and delay errors accurately in I/Q modulators 65. Subject Index
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 challenged to develop sophisticated analog solutions. This comprehensive source book of circuit design solutions will aid systems designers with elegant and practical design techniques that focus on common circuit design 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.
1. Introduction 2. Foreword 3. Part 1: Power Management 4. Section 1. Power Management Tutorials 5. 1. Ceramic input capacitors can cause overvoltage transients 6. 2. Minimizing switching regulator residue in linear regulator outputs: Banishing those accursed spikes 7. 3. Power conditioning for notebook and palmtop systems 8. 4. 2-Wire virtual remote sensing for voltage regulators: Clairvoyance marries remote sensing 9. Section 2. Switching Regulator Design 10. 5. LT1070 design manual 11. 6. Switching regulators for poets: A gentle guide for the trepidatious 12. 7. Step-down switching regulators 13. 8. A monolithic switching regulator with 100μV output noise: “Silence is the perfectest herald of joy ...” 14. 9. Powering complex FPGA-based systems using highly integrated DC/DC μModule regulator systems: Part 1 of 2 Circuit and electrical performance 15. 10. Powering complex FPGA-based systems using highly integrated DC/DC µModule regulator systems: Part 2 of 2 Thermal performance and layout 16. 11. Diode turn-on time induced failures in switching regulators: Never Has so Much Trouble Been Had By so Many with so Few Terminals 17. Section 3. Linear Regulator Design 18. 12. Performance verification of low noise, low dropout regulators: Silence of the amps 19. Section 4. High Voltage and High Current Applications 20. 13. Parasitic capacitance effects in step-up transformer design 21. 14. High efficiency, high density, PolyPhase converters for high current applications 22. Section 5. Powering Lasers and Illumination Devices 23. 15. Ultracompact LCD backlight inverters: A svelte beast cuts high voltage down to size 24. 16. A thermoelectric cooler temperature controller for fiber optic lasers: Climatic pampering for temperamental lasers 25. 17. Current sources for fiber optic lasers: A compendium of pleasant current events 26. 18. Bias voltage and current sense circuits for avalanche photodiodes: Feeding and reading the APD 27. Section 6. Automotive and Industrial Power Design 28. 19. Developments in battery stack voltage measurement: A simple solution to a not so simple problem 29. Part 2: Data conversion, signal conditioning and high frequency/RF 30. Section 1. Data Conversion 31. 20. Some techniques for direct digitization of transducer outputs 32. 21. The care and feeding of high performance ADCs: get all the bits you paid for 33. 22. A standards lab grade 20-bit DAC with 0.1ppm/°C drift: The dedicated art of digitizing one part per million 34. 23. Delta sigma ADC bridge measurement techniques 35. 24. 1ppm settling time measurement for a monolithic 18-bit DAC: When does the last angel stop dancing on a speeding pinhead? 36. Section 2. Signal Conditioning 37. 25. Applications for a switched-capacitor instrumentation building block 38. 26. Application considerations and circuits for a new chopper-stabilized op amp 39. 27. Designing linear circuits for 5V single supply operation 40. 28. Application considerations for an instrumentation lowpass filter 41. 29. Micropower circuits for signal conditioning 42. 30. Thermocouple measurement 43. 31. Take the mystery out of the switched-capacitor filter: The system designer’s filter compendium 44. 32. Bridge circuits: Marrying gain and balance 45. 33. High speed amplifier techniques: A designer’s companion for wideband circuitry 46. Preface 47. Introduction 48. Perspectives on high speed design 49. Mr. Murphy’s gallery of high speed amplifier problems 50. Tutorial section 51. Applications Section I — Amplifiers 52. Applications Section II — Oscillators 53. Applications section III — Data conversion 54. APPLICATIONS SECTION IV — MISCELLANEOUS CIRCUITS 55. References 56. 34. A seven-nanosecond comparator for single supply operation: Guidance for putting civilized speed to work 57. 35. Understanding and applying voltage references 58. 36. Instrumentation applications for a monolithic oscillator: A clock for all reasons 59. 37. Slew rate verification for wideband amplifiers: The taming of the slew 60. 38. Instrumentation circuitry using RMS-to-DC converters: RMS converters rectify average results 61. 39. 775 nanovolt noise measurement for a low noise voltage reference: Quantifying silence 62. Section 3. High Frequency/RF Design 63. 40. LT5528 WCDMA ACPR, AltCPR and noise measurements 64. 41. Measuring phase and delay errors accurately in I/Q modulators 65. Subject Index
