S E R I E S F O R D E S I G N E N G I N E E R ! 1 ' 1 I I ircuit I Hrt, Science, and Pe Analog Circuit Design Analog Circuit Design Art, Science, and Personalities Edited by Jim Williams Butterworth-Heinemann Boston London Oxford Singapore Sydney Toronto Wellington Buttenvorth Heinemann is an imprint of Elsevier Science. Copyright 1991 by Elsevier Science USA. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written permission of the publisher. $3 This book is printed on acid-free paper. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Analog circuit design: art, science, and personalities / edited by Jim Williams. cm. - (The EDN series for design engineers) p. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7506-9 166-2 1. Linear integrated circuits-Maintenancea nd repair. 2. Electronic circuit design. I. Williams, Jim, 1948-. 11. Series TK7874.A548 1991 9 1-9930 621,381’5-dc20 CIP British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data 1. Analogue circuits, Design I. Williams, Jim 1948- 11. Series 621.3815 ISBN 0-7506-9640-0 The publisher offers special discounts on bulk orders of this book. For information, please contact: Manager of Special Sales Elsevier Science 200 Wheeler Road Burlington, MA 018 03 Tell 781-313-4700 Fax: 781-313-4802 10 Printed in the United States of America Editorial, design and production services provided by HighText Publications, Inc. Solana Beach, California. For Celia, Michael, and Bonillas. These are my friends, and this is what we do. Bob Widlar's contributions, albeit not received for this book, are acknowledged by all. Contents ..................................................................................................................... Preface xi Contributors xiii One Introduction ............................................................................................... 1. Barometers and Analog Design 3 Alexander Calandra 2. Analogs Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow, or Metaphors of the Continuum 5 George A. Philbrick 3. It's An Analog World-Or Is it? 15 Dan Sheingold 4. Is Analog Circuit Design Dead? 17 Jim Williams 5. On Being the Machine 23 Bernard Gordon 6. Reflections of a Dinosaur 31 Samuel Wilensky 7. Max Wien, Mr. Hewlett, and a Rainy Sunday Afternoon 43 Jim Williams Three The Making of an Analog Engineer ............................................................................................... 8. True Analog Circuit Design 59 Tom Hornak 9. The Story of the P2 (The First Successful Solid-state Operational Amplifier With Picoampere Input Currents) 67 Bob Pease vii Contents 10. Propagation of the Race (of Analog Circuit Designers) 79 Jim Roberge 11. The Process of Analog Design 89 Rod Russell 12. Analog Design Discipline: A Tale of Three Diodes 93 Milton Wilcox 13. Should Ohm's Law Be Repealed? 99 Jim Williams Four Intuitions and Insights ...................................... ......................................................... 14. Good Engineering and Fast Vertical Amplifiers 107 John Addis 15. Understanding Why Things Don't Work 123 Bob Blauschild 16. Building Blocks for the Linear IC Designer: Linear Synthesis for Monolithic Circuits 127 A. Paul Brokaw 17. How to Design Analog Circuits Without a Computer or a Lot of Paper 149 Richard S. Burwen 18. Starting to Like Electronics in Your Twenties 169 George Erdi 19. Where Do Little Circuits Come From? 177 Barrie Gilbert 20. The Process of Analog Design 187 Garry Gillette 21. The Art of Good Analog Circuit Design-Some Basic Problems and Possible Solutions 193 Barry Hilton 22. My Approach to Feedback Loop Design 199 Phil Perkins 23. The Zoo Circuit: History, Mistakes, and Some Monkeys Design a Circuit 215 Jim Williams viii Contents Five Techniques, Tips, and Applications 24. Reality-Driven Analog Integrated Circuit Design 233 Derek F. Bowers 25. Current-Feedback Amplifiers 261 Sergio Franco 26. Analog Extensions of Digital Time and Frequency Generation 277 Garry Gillette 27. Some Practical Aspects of SPICE Modeling for Analog Circuits 299 E. J . Kennedy 28. Design of Crystal Oscillator Circuits 333 Robert f. Matthys 29. A Tale of Voltage-to-Frequency Converters (Ancient History) 349 Rob Pease 30. Op Amps and Their Characteristics 361 Dan Sheingold Index 387 ix