The Circuit Designer's Companion

¿IntroductionChapter 1 Grounding and Wiring Grounding Grounding Within One Unit Chassis Ground The Conductivity of Aluminum Ground Loops Power Supply Returns Input Signal Ground Output Signal Ground Inter-Board Interface Signals Star-Point Grounding Ground Connections Between Units Shielding The Safety Earth Wiring and Cables Wire Types Cable Types Power Cables Data and Multicore Cables RF Cables Twisted Pair Crosstalk Transmission Lines Characteristic Impedance Time Domain Frequency DomainChapter 2 Printed Circuits Board Types Materials Type of Construction Choice of Type Choice of Size Design Rules Track Width and Spacing Hole and Pad Diameter Track Routing Ground and Power Distribution Package Placement Component Identification Solder Resist Terminations and Connections Surface Protection Guarding Conformal Coating Surface Mount Surface Mount Design Rules Sourcing Boards and Artwork Artwork BoardsChapter 3 Passive Components Resistors Resistor Types Tolerancing Temperature Coefficient Power Inductance Pulse Handling Resistor Networks Potentiometers Trimmer Types Panel Types Pot Applications Capacitors Metallized Film & Paper Multi-Layer Ceramics Single Layer Ceramics Electrolytics Solid Tantalum Capacitor Applications Series Capacitors and dc Leakage Dielectric Absorption Self Resonance Inductors Permeability Self-Capacitance Inductor Applications The Danger of Inductive Transients Crystals Resonance Oscillator Circuits TemperatureChapter 4 Active Components Diodes Forward Bias Reverse Bias Leakage High-Frequency Performance Switching Times Schottky Diodes Zener Diodes The Zener as a Clamp Thyristors and Triacs Thyristor Versus Triac Triggering Characteristics False Triggering Conduction Switching Snubbing Bipolar Transistors Leakage Saturation The Darlington Safe Operating Area Gain Switching and High Frequency Performance Grading Junction Field Effect Transistors Pinch-Off Applications High Impedance Circuits MOSFETs Low-Power MOSFETs VMOS Power FETs Gate Drive Impedance Switching Speed On-State ResistanceChapter 5 Linear Integrated Circuits The Ideal Op-Amp The Practical Op-Amp Offset Voltage Bias and Offset Currents Common Mode Effects Input Voltage Range Output Parameters AC Parameters Slew Rate and Large Signal Bandwidth Small-Signal Bandwidth Settling Time Uncompensated Op-Amps The Oscillating Amplifier Open-Loop Gain Noise Supply Current Temperature Ratings Cost and Availability Comparators Output Parameters AC Parameters Op-Amps as Comparators (and Vice Versa) Hysteresis and Oscillations Input Voltage Limits Comparator Sourcing Voltage References Zener References Band-Gap References Reference SpecificationsChapter 6 Digital Circuits Logic ICs Noise Immunity and Thresholds Fan-Out and Loading Induced Switching Noise Decoupling Un