We appreciate the enthusiastic response to the original
book, Analog Circuit Design: A Tutorial Guide to Applications
and Solutions. The acceptance of this book emphasizes
the need for making good circuit design applications
accessible. These writings on applications ill a vacuum,
since the majority of application notes and magazine articles
do not have suficient depth to teach analog design.
At the time I learned analog design, there were not yet
any analog ICs. Circuits were all transistorized (maybe
some tubes) and the circuit explanations in magazines and
books were more complete than many are today. In those
days equipment manuals included schematics for repair.
I was fortunate to work at a large company with a huge calibration
lab for their equipment. I spent many lunch hours
perusing the calibration and repair manuals for analog systems.
I thank HP, Tektronix and many other companies
for their tutorials on analog circuit design that I discovered
in the calibration lab. It is interesting to note that
Jim Williams in his early years at MIT spent much time
repairing electronic test equipment that was nonfunctional.
Today’s manuals are more sparse.
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