Analog Circuit Design

Jim Williams, who worked for Linear Technology for nearly three decades, was a talented and prolific circuit designer and author in the field of analog electronics until his untimely passing in 2011. In nearly 30 years with Linear, he had the unique role of staff scientist with interests spanning product definition, development and support. Before joining Linear Technology in 1982, Williams worked in National Semiconductor’s Linear Integrated Circuits Group for three years. Williams was a legendary circuit designer, problem solver, mentor and writer with writings published as Linear application notes and EDN magazine articles. In addition, he was writer/editor of four books. Williams was named Innovator of the Year by EDN magazine in 1992, elected to Electronic Design Hall of Fame in 2002, and was honored posthumously by EDN and EE Times in 2012 as the first recipient of the Jim Williams Contributor of the Year Award.

Contents
Preface
Contributors
One Introduction
1. Barometersand Analog Design
2. Analogs Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, or Metaphors of the Continuum
3. It's An Analog World—Or Is it?
4. Is Analog Circuit Design Dead?
Two What Is Analog Design?
5. On Being the Machine
6. Reflections of a Dinosaur
7. Max Wien, Mr. Hewlett, and a Rainy Sunday Afternoon
Three The Making of an Analog Engineer
8. True Analog Circuit Design
9. The Story of the P2 (The First Successful Solid-State Operational Amplifier With Picoampere Input Currents)
10. Propagation of the Race (of Analog Circuit Designers)
11. The Process of Analog Design
12. Analog Design Discipline: ATale of Three Diodes
13. Should Ohm's Law Be Repealed?
Four Intuitions and Insights
14. Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers
15. Understanding Why Things Don't Work
16. Building Blocks for the Linear IC Designer: Linear Synthesis for Monolithic Circuits
17. How to Design Analog Circuits Without a Computer or a Lot of Paper
18. Starting to Like Electronics in Your Twenties
19. Where Do Little Circuits Come From?
20. The Process of Analog Design
21. The Art of Good Analog Circuit Design—Some Basic Problems and Possible Solutions
22. My Approach to Feedback Loop Design
23. The Zoo Circuit: History, Mistakes, and Some Monkeys Design a Circuit
Five Techniques, Tips, and Applications
24. Reality-Driven Analog Integrated Circuit Design
25. Current-Feedback Amplifiers
26. Analog Extensions of Digital Time and Frequency Generation
27. Some Practical Aspects of SPICE Modeling for Analog Circuits
28. Design of Crystal Oscillator Circuits
29. A Tale of Voltage-to-Frequency Converters(Ancient History)
30. Op Amps and Their Characteristics
Index