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From: whit@blake.acs.washington.edu (John Whitmore III)
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Subject: Re: Analog Circuit Design Tech-notes Quest
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Date: 22 Nov 89 06:07:25 GMT
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>I posted an article earlier with a view to gathering as many existing
>analog circuit design tech-notes as possible. (other than standard
>textbooks)
>Don Liu gave the following references:  8-)
>
>    1. Linear and Interface Circuits Applications
>       ( Texas Instruments )
>
>    2. Linear Application Databook
>       ( National Semiconductor )
>
	For general circuitry, the various compilations of Markus
are very useful: Electronic Circuits Handbook, Electronics Sourcebook,
and other titles (depending on the date of publication).  
	For op amp circuits, there are several books published by 
Burr-Brown:  Function Circuits, Operational Amplifiers Design and 
Applications, Applications of Operational Amplifiers (Third Generation
Techniques).
	For switching power supplies, the application notes in the
Unitrode Semiconductor Handbook are excellent (1980 edition had
these, I don't know about more recent ones).
	Radio Amateur's Handbook has lots of RF and audio information,
with some generally applicable notes and entire projects.
	For interface circuitry, the AMD Interface Databook is very
helpful (I found an application note there that described Apple's
LocalTalk network, years before the first Macintosh was equipped with it).
	For digital circuitry, my favorites are Digital Design with
Standard MSI and LSI, by Blakeslee; Wiley, 1975 (which few folk seem
to have heard of) and The Art of Electronics, by Horowitz and Hill,
Cambridge University Press, 1980 (which everyone's heard of).  Neither
is big on cookbook circuits, but both are careful to warn of pitfalls.
In this age of DSP's and switched-capacitor filters, one CANNOT omit
the digital circuitry from a treatment of analog design.

"I am known for my brilliance,                 John Whitmore
by those who do not know me well"