Newsgroups: sci.electronics
Path: utzoo!henry
From: henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer)
Subject: Re: Analog Circuit Design Tech-notes Quest
Message-ID: <1989Nov15.055230.8626@utzoo.uucp>
Organization: U of Toronto Zoology
References: <1989Nov13.135928.16752@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> <2846@phred.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 15 Nov 89 05:52:30 GMT

In article <2846@phred.UUCP> brianr@phred.UUCP (Brian Reese) writes:
>... I'm kinda surprised that no one
>has mentioned "Cookbooks".  I have Don Lancaster's "CMOS Cookbook" and his
>"OpAmp Cookbook".  Both of them are very good.  The CMOS Cookbook is published
>by Howard W. Sams & Co., Inc.  I imagine the OpAmp Cookbook is too, I just 
>don't have it in front of me.  Something tells me there are more than just
>these two, but I don't remember what they might be.

Lancaster's original book was the TTL Cookbook, which is still useful
although pretty dated now.  His CMOS Cookbook is still very good -- the
4000-series CMOS family has aged more gracefully than plain 7400-series
TTL and is still realistic for new designs.  His TV Typewriter Cookbook
is of historical interest only.  His Cheap Video Cookbook and its sequel,
Son of Cheap Video, are of interest for some really sneaky video-display
techniques, although the specific chips he uses are oldies.

The only book of his that's really relevant to this discussion, his
Active-Filter Cookbook, is unfortunately much more a *cookbook* than the
others.  That is, it just says "here, this works", rather than teaching
you how to do it yourself.  It's nearly 15 years old; although I'm not
really up on analog design, I'd guess it's pretty well obsolete now.

If he wrote an Op Amp Cookbook, I've never seen it.  "IC Op Amp Cookbook",
also published by Sams, is not by Lancaster.  Before buying it, check the
date; the second edition (which I have) is nearly a decade old.  An old
one will still be relevant for general discussion, but the specific op
amps used as examples will be geriatric cases.
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