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Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page i Analog Circuits Cookbook Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page ii Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page iii Analog Circuits Cookbook Second edition Ian Hickman BSc (Hons), CEng, MIEE, MIEEE Newnes OXFORD AUCKLAND BOSTON JOHANNESBURG MELBOURNE NEW DELHI Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page iv 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 copyright holder except in accordance with the provisions of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 or under the terms of a licence issued by the Copyright Licensing Agency Ltd, 90 Tottenham Court Road, London, England W1P 9HE. Applications for the copyright holder’s written permission to reproduce any part of this publication should be addressed to the publishers British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. ISBN 0 7506 4234 3 Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication Data 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 Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page v 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 Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page vi vi Contents 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 Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page vii Contents vii 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 Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page viii Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page ix 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 Cookbook Prelims 8/3/99 12:00 pm Page x x Preface 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.
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