Troubleshooting analog circuits
By: Robert A. Pease.
Series: EDN series for design engineers
Publisher: Newnes
Published: 1993
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 217
Subjects: Linear integrated circuits -- Maintenance and repair; Electronic circuit design
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Acknowledgments; title: About the author; title: First things first : the philosophy of troubleshooting; title: Choosing the right equipment; title: Getting down to the component level : resistors and inductors; title: Getting down to the component level : capacitor problems; title: Preventing material and assembly problems : PC boards and connectors, relays and switches; title: Understanding diodes and their problems; title: Identifying and avoiding transistor problems; title: Operational amplifiers; title: the supreme activators; title: Quashing spurious oscillations; title: Analog-digital boundary : a never-never land?; title: Dealing with references and regulators; title: Roundup of floobydust : loose ends that don't fit elsewhere; title: Letters to Bob; title: Real circuits and real problems; title: Appendixes: Digital ICs with nonstandard pinouts ; Operational amplifiers with nonstandard pinouts ; Understanding and reducing noise voltage on three-terminal regulators / Erroll Dietz ; Testing fast comparators for voltage offset ; VF vs. IF on various diodes ; How to get the right information from a datasheet ; More on SPICE ; Pease's troubleshooting articles as originally published in EDN.