Analog Circuit Design Volume 2

Introduction

Why I Write

In the early 1980s we wanted prospective customers to know our name and what we were up to. The real issue was finding a way to productively use the seeming dead time before product availability. What readers wanted was a series of credible, full length technical articles in the language of relevant, working circuits.

I moped for weeks over this problem before a possible solution became apparent. Instead of waiting for products, I’d simply go into the lab, develop the applications, and then write the articles. The key to this approach was to synthesize the expected products using available ICs and discretes to build rough equivalents on small plugin boards. We could develop functional applications and write most of ...