Front Cover -- Intuitive Analog Circuit Design -- Copyright -- Dedication -- In memoriam -- Contents -- Preface to the Second Edition -- Changes in the second edition -- Software used by the author -- Thanks -- From a Next Generation Analog Designer (?) -- Chapter 1 - Introduction and Motivation -- The need for analog designers -- Some early history of technological advances in analog integrated circuits -- Digital vs. analog implementation: designer's choice -- So, why do we become analog designers? -- Note on nomenclature in this text -- Note on coverage in this book -- Further reading -- Chapter 2 - Review of Signal Processing Basics -- Review of Laplace transforms, transfer functions, and pole-zero plots -- First-order system response -- Second-order systems -- Free vibration of damped, second-order system -- Logarithmic decrement13 -- Higher order systems -- Review of resonant electrical circuits -- Use of energy methods to analyze undamped resonant circuits -- Risetime for cascaded systems -- Chapter 2 problems -- Further reading -- Chapter 3 - Review of Diode Physics and the Ideal (and Later, Nonideal) Diode -- Current flow in insulators, good conductors, and semiconductors -- Electrons and holes -- Drift, diffusion, recombination, and generation -- Effects of semiconductor doping -- PN junction under thermal equilibrium -- PN junction under applied forward bias -- Reverse-biased diode -- The ideal diode equation -- Charge storage in diodes -- Charge storage in the diode under forward bias -- Reverse recovery in bipolar diodes -- Reverse breakdown -- Taking a look at a diode datasheet -- Some quick comments on Schottky diodes -- Further reading -- Chapter 4 - Bipolar Transistor Models -- A little bit of history -- Basic NPN transistor -- Transistor models in different operating regions -- Low-frequency incremental bipolar transistor model.

High-frequency incremental model -- Reading a transistor datasheet -- Limitations of the hybrid-pi model -- 2N3904 datasheet excerpts22 -- Further reading -- Chapter 5 - Basic Bipolar Transistor Amplifiers and Biasing -- The issue of transistor biasing -- Some transistor amplifiers -- Further reading -- Chapter 6 - Amplifier Bandwidth Estimation Techniques -- Introduction to open-circuit time constants -- Transistor amplifier examples -- Short-circuit time constants -- Further reading -- Chapter 7 - Advanced Amplifier Topics and Design Examples -- Note on cascaded gain stages and the effects of loading -- Worst-case open-circuit time constants calculations -- High-frequency output and input impedance of emitter follower buffers -- Bootstrapping -- Pole splitting -- Further reading -- Chapter 8 - BJT High-Gain Amplifiers and Current Mirrors -- The need to augment the hybrid-pi model -- Base-width modulation and the extended hybrid-pi model -- Calculating small-signal parameters using a transistor datasheet -- Building blocks -- Further reading -- Chapter 9 - Introduction to Field-Effect Transistors (FETs) and Amplifiers -- Early history of field-effect transistors -- Qualitative discussion of the basic signal MOSFET -- Figuring out the V-I curve of a MOS device -- MOS small-signal model (low frequency) -- MOS small-signal model (high frequency) -- Basic MOS amplifiers -- Basic JFETs -- Further reading -- Chapter 10 - Large-Signal Switching of Bipolar Transistors and MOSFETs -- Introduction -- Development of the large-signal switching model for BJTs -- BJT reverse-active region -- BJT saturation -- BJT base-emitter and base-collector depletion capacitances -- Relationship between the charge control and the hybrid-pi parameters in bipolar transistors -- Finding depletion capacitances from the datasheet -- Manufacturers' testing of BJTs.

Charge control model examples -- Large-signal switching of MOSFETs -- Further reading -- 10 2N2222 NPN transistor datasheet excerpts14 -- 10 Si4410DY N-channel MOSFET datasheet excerpts15 -- Chapter 11 - Review of Feedback Systems -- Introduction and some early history of feedback control -- Invention of the negative feedback amplifier -- Control system basics -- Loop transmission and disturbance rejection -- Approximate closed-loop gain of a feedback loop -- Pole locations, damping and relative stability -- The effects of feedback on relative stability -- Routh stability criterion (a.k.a. the "Routh test") -- The phase margin and gain margin tests -- Relationship between damping ratio and phase margin -- Phase margin, step response, and frequency response -- Loop compensation techniques-lead and lag networks -- Parenthetical comment on some interesting feedback loops -- Further reading -- Chapter 12 - Basic Operational Amplifier Topologies and a Case Study -- Basic operational amplifier operation -- A brief review of LM741 op-amp schematic -- Some real-world limitations of op-amps -- Noise -- Further reading -- Chapter 13 - Review of Current Feedback Operational Amplifiers -- Conventional voltage-feedback op-amp and the constant "gain-bandwidth product" paradigm -- Slew-rate limitations in a conventional voltage-feedback op-amp -- The current-feedback op-amp -- Absence of slew-rate limit in current-feedback op-amps -- Manufacturer's datasheet information for a current-feedback amplifier -- A more detailed model and some comments on current-feedback op-amp limitations -- Further reading -- Appendix: LM6181 current-feedback op-amp -- Chapter 14 - Analog Low-Pass Filters -- Introduction -- Review of LPF basics -- Butterworth filter -- Comparison of Butterworth, Chebyshev, and Bessel filters -- Filter implementation -- Active LPF implementations.

Some comments on high-pass and band-pass filters -- Further reading -- Chapter 15 - Passive Components, Prototyping Issues, and a Case Study in PC Board Layout -- Resistors -- Comments on surface-mount resistors -- Comments on resistor types -- Capacitors -- Inductors -- Discussion of some PC board layout issues -- Some personal thoughts on prototyping tools -- Further reading -- Chapter 16 - Noise -- Thermal (a.k.a. "Johnson" or "White") noise in resistors -- Schottky ("shot") noise -- 1/f ("pink" or "flicker") noise -- Excess noise in resistors -- "Popcorn" noise (a.k.a. "burst" noise) -- Bipolar transistor noise -- Field-effect transistor noise -- Op-amp noise model -- Selecting a noise-optimized op-amp -- Signal-to-noise ratio -- Things that are not noise -- Further reading -- Chapter 17 - Other Useful Design Techniques and Loose Ends -- Thermal circuits -- Steady-state model of conductive heat transfer -- Thermal energy storage -- Using thermal circuit analogies to determine the static semiconductor junction temperature -- Mechanical circuit analogies -- The translinear principle -- Input impedance of an infinitely long resistive ladder -- Transmission lines 101 -- Node equations and Cramer's rule -- Finding natural frequencies of LRC circuits -- Some comments on scaling laws in nature -- Geometric scaling -- Some personal comments on the use and abuse of SPICE modeling -- Further reading -- Appendices -- Appendix 1: Some useful approximations and identities -- Appendix 2: p, μ, m, k and M -- Appendix 3: MATLAB scripts for control system examples -- Index.