Troubleshooting Analog Circuits

Cover......Page 1
Half Title Page......Page 2
Title Page......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Table of Contents......Page 6
Foreword......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 11
1. First Things First: The Philosophy of Troubleshooting......Page 14
2. Choosing the Right Equipment......Page 27
3. Getting Down to the Component Level: Resistors and Inductors......Page 39
4. Getting Down to the Component Level: Capacitor Problems......Page 53
5. Preventing Material and Assembly Problems: PC Boards and Connectors, Relays and Switches......Page 63
6. Understanding Diodes and Their Problems......Page 78
7. Identifying and Avoiding Transistor Problems......Page 90
8. Operational Amplifiers - The Supreme Activators......Page 102
9. Quashing Spurious Oscillations......Page 121
10. The Analog/Digital Boundary: A Never-Never Land?......Page 133
11. Dealing with References and Regulators......Page 148
Appendix H: Peases Troubleshooting Articles as Originally Published in EDN......Page 0
13. Letters to Bob......Page 168
14. Real Circuits and Real Problems......Page 185
Appendix A: Digital ICs with Nonstandard Pinouts......Page 200
Appendix B: Operational Amplifiers with Nonstandard Pinouts......Page 201
Appendix C: Understanding and Reducing Noise Voltage on 3-Terminal Voltage Regulators......Page 204
Appendix D: Testing Fast Comparators for Voltage Offset......Page 207
Appendix E: VF vs. IF on Various Diodes......Page 209
Appendix F: How to Get the Right Information From a Data Sheet......Page 212
Appendix G: More on SPICE......Page 216
Index......Page 222
Back Cover......Page 234