Op Amps for Everyone

Bruce Carter

• Publisher: Newnes
• Year: 2003
• Edition: 2
• eBook ISBN:
  9780080513072
• Topic: Technology & Engineering
• Subtopic: Electrical Engineering & Telecommunications
• Index: Technology & Engineering

The operational amplifier ("op amp") is the most versatile and widely used type of analog IC, used in audio and voltage amplifiers, signal conditioners, signal converters, oscillators, and analog computing systems. Almost every electronic device uses at least one op amp. This book is Texas Instruments' complete professional-level tutorial and reference to operational amplifier theory and applications. Among the topics covered are basic op amp physics (including reviews of current and voltage division, Thevenin's theorem, and transistor models), idealized op amp operation and configuration, feedback theory and methods, single and dual supply operation, understanding op amp parameters, minimizing noise in op amp circuits, and practical applications such as instrumentation amplifiers, signal conditioning, oscillators, active filters, load and level conversions, and analog computing. There is also extensive coverage of circuit construction techniques, including circuit board design, grounding, input and output isolation, using decoupling capacitors, and frequency characteristics of passive components. The material in this book is applicable to all op amp ICs from all manufacturers, not just TI. Unlike textbook treatments of op amp theory that tend to focus on idealized op amp models and configuration, this title uses idealized models only when necessary to explain op amp theory. The bulk of this book is on real-world op amps and their applications; considerations such as thermal effects, circuit noise, circuit buffering, selection of appropriate op amps for a given application, and unexpected effects in passive components are all discussed in detail. - Published in conjunction with Texas Instruments - A single volume, professional-level guide to op amp theory and applications - Covers circuit board layout techniques for manufacturing op amp circuits

Table of contents

• Cover
• Contents
• Chapter 1. The Op Amp's Place In The World
• Chapter 2. Review of Circuit Theory
• Chapter 3. Development of the Ideal Op Amp Equations
• Chapter 4. Single Supply Op Amp Design Techniques
• Chapter 5. Feedback and Stability Theory
• Chapter 6. Development of the Non Ideal Op Amp Equations
• Chapter 7. Voltage-Feedback Op Amp Compensation
• Chapter 8. Current-Feedback Op Amp Analysis
• Chapter 9. Voltage- and Current-Feedback Op Amp Comparison
• Chapter 10. Op Amp Noise Theory and Applications
• Chapter 11. Understanding Op Amp Parameters
• Chapter 12. Instrumentation: Sensors to A/D Converters
• Chapter 13. Wireless Communication: Signal Conditioning for IF Sampling
• Chapter 14. Interfacing D/A Converters to Loads
• Chapter 15. Sine Wave Oscillators
• Chapter 16. Active Filter Design Techniques
• Chapter 17. Circuit Board Layout Techniques
• Chapter 18. Designing Low-Voltage Op Amp Circuits
• Appendix A. Single-Supply Circuit Collection
• Appendix B. Single-Supply Op Amp Selection Guide
• Index