The Analog Circuit Design set reduces the concepts of analog electronics to their simplest, most obvious form which can easily be applied (even quantitatively) with minimal effort.

The emphasis of the set is to help you intuitively learn through inspection how circuits work and apply the same techniques to circuits of the same class.

This first volume, Amplifier Circuits, presents the basic principles of transistor circuit analysis, basic per-stage building blocks, and feedback. The content is restricted to quasi-static (low-frequency) considerations, to emphasize basic topological principles. The reader will be able to analyze and design multi-stage amplifiers with feedback, including calculation and specification of gain, input and output resistances, including the effects of transistor output resistance.

The presentation of feedback analysis includes important insights left out of other books. Multiple-path amplifiers is also a subject rarely found elsewhere, though common in practice. Both are covered with insights and from angles that will reduce analysis to inspection for readers. Some circuit transformations outlined within are especially helpful in reducing circuits to simpler forms for analysis. They are usefully applied in considering transistor circuits for which collector-emitter (or drain-source) resistance is not negligible, another often omitted topic which this book details. Examples are given throughout to illustrate application of principles.

Key Features
- Little known circuits and techniques are revealed that can improve your circuit design and analysis skills.
- Explains fast, accurate, and simple circuit methods.
- Simulators will not create your circuits: this shows how.
- Graphically-driven presentation of concepts; like a series of seminars.
- Written by 30 year veteran designer.

Chapter 1 Electronic Design
Electronic Design
Product Development
Design-Driven Analysis
Nonlinear Circuit Analysis

Chapter 2 Amplifier Circuits
Bipolar Junction Transistor T Model
The ß Transform
Two-Port Networks
Amplifier Configurations
The Transresistance Method
Input and Output Resistances
The Cascade Amplifier
BJT Output Resistance
The Cascode Amplifier
The Effect of Base-Emitter Shunt Resistance
The Darlington Amplifier
The Differential (Emitter-Coupled) Amplifier
Current Mirrors
Matched Transistor Buffers and Complementary Combinations
Closure

Chapter 3 Amplifier Concepts
The Reduction Theorem
µ Transform of BJT and FET T Models
Common-Gate Amplifier with r_o
Common-Source Amplifier with r_o
Common-Drain Amplifier with r_o
FET Cascode Amplifier with r_o
Common-Base Amplifier with r_o
CC and CE Amplifiers with r_o
Loaded Dividers, Source Shifting and the Substitution Theorem
Closure

Chapter 4 Feedback Amplifiers
Feedback Circuits Block Diagram
Port Resistances with Dependent Sources
General Feedback Circuit
Input Network Summing
Choosing xE, xf, and the Input Network Topology
Two-Port Equivalent Circuits
Two-Port Loading Theorem
Feedback Analysis Procedure
Noninverting Op-Amp
Inverting Op-Amp
Inverting BJT Amplifier Examples
Noninverting Feedback Amplifier Examples
A Noninverting Feedback Amplifier with Output Block
FET Buffer Amplifier
Feedback Effects on Input and Output Resistance
Miller's Theorem
Noise Rejection by Feedback
Reduction of Nonlinearity with Feedback
Closure

Chapter 5 Multiple-Path Feedback Amplifiers
Multipath Feedback Circuits
Common-Base Amplifier Feedback Analysis
Common-Emitter Amplifier Feedback Analysis
Common-Collector Amplifier Feedback Analysis
Inverting Op-Amp with Output Resistance
Feedback Analysis of the Shunt-Feedback Amplifier
Shunt-Feedback Amplifier Substitution Theorem Analysis
Idealized Shunt-Feedback Amplifier
Cascode and Differential Shunt-Feedback Amplifiers
Blackman's Resistance Formula
The Asymptotic Gain Method
Emitter-Coupled Feedback Amplifier
Emitter-Coupled Feedback Amplifier Example
Audiotape Playback Amplifier Examples
Closure
References

Dennis Feucht heads Innovatia Laboratories, involved with analog circuits, motion control, power electronics, microcomputer-based instrumentation, electromechanics, and automation. Feucht is an electronics engineer with extensive experience doing leading-edge electronics design of high-performance test instruments, robotics, power conversion, and motor drives for over 30 years.