14 Dec
2011
14 Dec
'11
8:48 p.m.
On Dec 14, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
On 12/14/2011 08:14 PM, Mouse wrote:
Fun fact about other contemporaneously-deceased electronics personalities: I have a signed
copy of Bob Pease's "Debugging Analog Circuits" (won it as the door prize
when he came to speak at a neighboring company). He signed it "May all your problems
be medium-sized (so you can find 'em!)". It's absolutely a book worth having
if you're dealing with finicky analog things.
- Dave
On the other, I'm considering an AGC circuit
that doesn't use a bulb,
but instead uses a FET as a variable resistor, and trying to figure out
where it's got anything nonlinear in it (assuming the amplifier is
running class A).
Jim Williams (RIP) did a LOT of research on this. The bulb outperformed the FET by a
gigantic margin. (just sayin'..)
That's a fascinating read; I'll try to find a pointer if you're interested.
(I have the saga in a paper book, "Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science, and
Personalites", one of my favorite books)