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Analog Circuits Cookbook
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Analog Circuits Cookbook
Second edition
Ian Hickman
BSc (Hons), CEng, MIEE, MIEEE
Newnes
OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI
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Newnes
An imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann
Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP
225 Wildwood Avenue, Woburn, MA 01801-2041
A division of Reed Educational and Professional Publishing Ltd
A member of the Reed Elsevier plc group
First published 1995
Second edition 1999
© Ian Hickman 1995, 1999
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in
any material form (including photocopying or storing in any medium by
electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some
other use of this publication) without the written permission of the
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Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the
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England W1P 9HE. Applications for the copyright holder’s written
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library.
ISBN 0 7506 4234 3
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A catalogue record for this book is available from the Library of Congress.
Typeset by Tek-Art, Croydon, Surrey
Printed and bound in Great Britain
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Contents
Preface to second edition ix
1 Advanced circuit techniques, components and concepts 1
Negative approach to positive thinking 1
March 1993, pages 258–261
Logamps for radar – and much more 10
April 1993, pages 314–317
Working with avalanche transistors 16
March 1996, pages 219–222
Filters using negative resistance 26
March 1997, pages 217–221
Big surprises ... in small packages 39
May 1997, pages 371–376, 440
2 Audio 57
Low distortion audio frequency oscillators 57
April 1992, pages 345–346
Notes on free phasing 61
February 1996, pages 124–128
Music in mind 73
October 1996, pages 730–734
Filter variations 84
October 1996, pages 769–772
Camcorder dubber 94
September 1997, pages 730–731
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3 Measurements (audio and video) 99
Four opamp inputs are better than two 99
May 1992, pages 399–401
DC accurate filter plays anti-alias role 104
June 1992, pages 497–499
Bootstrap base to bridge building 110
October 1992, pages 868–870
Mighty filter power in minuscule packages 116
May 1993, pages 399–403
’Scope probes – active and passive 126
May 1996, pages 366–372
4 Measurements (rf) 142
Measuring detectors (Part 1) 142
November 1991, pages 976–978
Measuring detectors (Part 2) 147
December 1991, pages 1024–1025
Measuring L and C at frequency – and on a budget 151
June 1993, pages 481–483
Add on a spectrum analyser 160
December 1993, pages 982–989
Wideband isolator 177
March 1998, pages 214–219
5 Opto 191
Sensing the position 191
November 1992, pages 955–957
Bringing the optoisolator into line 198
December 1992, pages 1050–1052
Light update 205
September 1996, pages 674–679
A look at light 213
June 1997, pages 466–471
6 Power supplies and devices 228
Battery-powered instruments 228
February 1981, pages 57–61
The MOS controlled thyristor 242
September 1993, pages 763–766
Designer’s power supply 252
January 1997, pages 26–32
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7 RF circuits and techniques 268
Homodyne reception of FM signals 268
November 1990, pages 962–967
LTPs and active double balanced mixers 281
February 1993, pages 126–128
Low power radio links 288
February 1993, pages 140–144
Noise 302
February 1998, pages 146–151
Understanding phase noise 316
August 1997, pages 642–646
Index 329
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Preface to second edition
Electronics World + Wireless World is undoubtedly the foremost electronics
magazine in the UK, being widely read by both professional
electronics engineers on the one hand and electronics hobbyists and
enthusiasts on the other, in the UK, abroad and indeed around the
world. The first article of mine to feature in the magazine, then
called simply Wireless World, appeared back in the very early 1970s. Or
was it the late 1960s; I can’t remember. Since then I have become
a more frequent – and latterly a regular – contributor, with both
the ‘Design Brief’ feature and occasional longer articles and series.
With their straightforward non-mathematical approach to explaining
modern electronic circuit design, component applications and
techniques, these have created some interest and the suggestion that
a collection of them might appear in book form found general
approval among some of my peers in the profession. The first edition
of this book was the result. A sequel, Hickman’s Analog and R.F. Circuits,
containing a further selection of articles published in Electronics World
(as it is now known), was published subsequently.
Since the appearance of the first edition of the Analog Circuits
Cookbook in 1995, a lot of water has flowed under the bridge, in
technical terms. Some of the articles it contains are thus no longer so
up-to-the-minute, whilst others are still entirely relevant and very
well worth retaining. So this second edition of the Analog Circuits
Cookbook has been prepared, retaining roughly half of the articles
which appeared in the first edition, and replacing the rest with other
articles which have appeared more recently in Electronics World.
Inevitably, in the preparation for publication of a magazine which
appears every month, the occasional ‘typo’ crept into the articles as
published, whilst the editorial exigencies of adjusting an article to fit
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the space available led to the occasional pruning of the text. The
opportunity has been taken here of restoring any excised material
and of correcting all (it is hoped) errors in the articles as they
appeared in the magazine. The articles have been gathered together
in chapters under subject headings, enabling readers to home in
rapidly on any area in which they are particularly interested. A brief
introduction has also been added to each, indicating the contents and
the general drift of the article.
Description:Analog Circuits Cookbook is a collection of tried and tested recipes form the masterchef of analog and RF design. Based on articles from Electronics World, this book provides a diet of high quality design techniques and applications, and proven ciruit designs, all concerned with the analog, RF and i
