The Art of Electronics

Brief Table of Contents

1. Foundations

• voltage and current; passive components; signals; complex analysis made simple.

• an easy-to-use transistor model
• extensive discussion of useful subcircuits, such as followers, switches, current sources, current mirrors, differential amplifiers, push-pull, cascode.

• JFETs and MOSFETs: types and properties; low-level and power applications; FET vs bipolar transistors; ESD.
• how to design amplifiers, buffers, current sources, gain controls, and logic switches.
• everything you wanted to know about analog switching -- feedthrough and crosstalk, bandwidth and speed, charge injection, nonlinearities, capacitance and on-resistance, latchup.

• "golden rules" for simple design, followed by in-depth treatment of real op-amp properties.
• circuit smorgasbord; design tradeoffs and cautions.
• easy to understand discussion of single-supply op-amp design and op-amp frequency compensation.
• special topics such as active rectifiers, logarithmic converters, peak detectors, dielectric absorption.

• simplified design of active filters, with tables and graphs.
• design of constant-Q and constant-BW filters, switched-capacitor filters, zero-offset LPFs, single-control tunable notch.
• oscillators: relaxation, VCO, RF VCO, quadrature, switched-capacitor, function generator, lookup table, state-variable, Wein bridge, LC, parasitic, quartz crystal, ovenized.

• discrete and integrated regulators, current sources and current sensing, crowbars, ground meccas.
• power design: parallel operation of bipolar and MOSFET transistors, SOA, thermal design and heatsinking.
• voltage references: bandgap/zener: stability and noise; integrated/discrete.
• all about switching supplies: configurations, design, and examples.
• flying-capacitor, high-voltage, low-power, and ultra stable power supplies.
• full analysis of a commercial line-powered switcher.

• an easy-to-use section on precision linear design.
• a section on noise, shielding, and grounding.
• a unique graphical method for streamlined low-noise amplifier analysis.
• autonulling amplifiers, instrumentation amplifiers, isolation amplifiers.

• combinational and sequential design with standard ICs, and with PLDs.
• all you wanted to know about timing, logic races, runt pulses, clocking skew, and metastable states.
• monostable multivibrators and their idiosyncrasies.
• a collection of digital logic pathology, and what to do about it.

• an extensive discussion of interfacing between logic families, and between logic and the outside world.
• a detailed discussion of A/D and D/A conversion techniques.
• digital noise generation.
• an easy-to-understand discussion of phase-locked loops, with design examples and applications.
• optoelectronics: emitters, detectors, couplers, displays, fiber optics.
• driving buses, capacitive loads, cables, and the outside world.

• IBM PC and Intel family: assembly language, bus signals, interfacing (with many examples).
• programmed I/O, interrupts, status registers, DMA.
• RS-232 cables that really work.
• serial ports, ASCII, and modems.
• SCSI, IPI, GPIB, parallel ports.
• local-area networks.

• 68000 family: actual design examples and discussion -- how to design them into instruments, and how to make them do what you want.
• complete general-purpose instrument design, with programming.
• peripheral LSI chips; serial and parallel ports; D/A and A/D converters.
• memory: how to choose it, how to use it.

• prototyping methods.
• printed-circuit and wire-wrap design, both manual and CAD.
• instrument construction: motherboards, enclosures, controls, wiring, accessibility, cooling.
• electrical and construction hints.

• transistor high-frequency design made simple.
• modular RF components -- amplifiers, mixers, hybrids, etc.
• modulation and detection.
• simplified design of high-speed switching circuits.

• extensive discussion of batteries, solar cells, and "signal-current" power sources.
• micropower references and regulators.
• low-power analog circuits -- discrete and integrated.
• low-power digital circuits, microprocessors, and conversion techniques.

• what you can measure and how accurately, and what to do with the data.
• bandwidth-narrowing methods made clear: signal averaging, multichannel scaling, lock-in amplifiers, and pulse-height analysis.