Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Robin Longley — Fri, 10 Nov 2017 09:28:06 GMT

I found a small error on page 53. The text for equations (80) and (81) appears to be transposed.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Art Kay — Thu, 28 May 2015 23:52:03 GMT

Magnus,

Thanks for the feedback! We recently did an update on the pocket reference, so make sure you have the fourth edition (see link below). Unfortunately, we didn’t add the definition of dBc to the fourth edition. We plan on continuing to update this, so we will get it in the next edition. Also, another resource to look at is precision labs. Precision labs is a series of training videos on amplifier topics (see link below).

Thanks, Art Kay

www.ti.com/.../precision-amplifier-pocket-reference-e-book.page

www.ti.com/.../precision-amplifier-precision-labs.page

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Magnus Farr — Wed, 27 May 2015 23:10:58 GMT

Great reference, it really covers much of what I've learned Sophomore and Junior year studying Electrical Engineering, from coaxial cable physics to Bode plots, to THD, to ADCs. Amazing.

Would it be possible to include a definition for 'dBc'? I discovered it means dB relative to a carrier signal.

For many young people like myself, much explanation of shorthand taken for granted by older engineers is entirely necessary.

One thing I would like to see is a guide to typical analog applications - as if someone compiled a bunch of example circuits from the bottom of TI datasheets and generalized them so that construction of almost any analog configuration was almost effortless. It's impossible to take the grunt work out of building circuits, and there will never be an engineer who didn't spend hours frustrated because of a problem that was staring them in the face.

I think this guide's logical next step is expansion into practical usefulness for someone trying to design complete analog systems.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Mike Lance — Wed, 18 Mar 2015 03:44:33 GMT

I too would be willing to purchase printed color copies. If so, please add several extra notes pages at the end of the book, graph paper (won't ask for green ;). Great work, thanks!

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Tim Green1 — Tue, 17 Mar 2015 17:26:53 GMT

Thanks for all of the feedback. As an op amp stability guy I am only stable with negative feedback! But seriously, we do appreciate your finding and reporting errors. We are making corrections and will also post an errata for the Third Edition in case you have a printed copy. We are also working on making printed copies available for printing plus shipping cost only. We are investigating some copyright permissions so stay tuned.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Keith Lueck — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 17:02:09 GMT

I've downloaded this and it seems very useful. I guess I'm old-school, but is this available as a hard-copy spiral-bound volume as shown in the picture? Did a little searching and didn't find anything... I think folks (including me) wouldn't mind paying a nominal fee for a hard copy.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Jim Martz — Mon, 16 Mar 2015 13:03:53 GMT

This looks really handy. One thing I see is that on page 25, on equations 19 and 20, it look like T and t need swapped.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Neil Albaugh — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 21:19:04 GMT

Kudos to you, Art and to Tim for creating this useful tool. Keep up the Burr- Brown ethic!

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

vic plichota — Sun, 15 Mar 2015 15:45:41 GMT

This is a great resource, thanks! One niggling criticism from me:Figure 6: LED forward voltage drop by color

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Rick Hammers — Fri, 13 Mar 2015 19:39:32 GMT

Thank you for doing this book and allowing us to use it free of charge. I did find one small error/typo on page 9 in the conversion example's answer. 10mm X 39.4 (mm/mil) = 384, I believe should equal 394.

I'll be taking this to work and using it quite often. I have been an electronics technician for about 20 years now.

Rick

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Lukas Salzburger82 — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 09:04:59 GMT

I have a few suggestions: Active filter topologies and current feedback amplifier (when to use them and pitfalls) would be useful.

And I think that a lot of designers in other parts of the world (including me and my colleagues) are not used to imperial units. An additional indication of the corresponding values in mm / mm² / µm could really help. AWG, mills, square mils, oz, etc. are not common here.

BTW: The front page design is a real piece of art.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Benjamin Lonske — Sat, 07 Mar 2015 03:47:42 GMT

I need this as a print version!

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Art Kay — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 21:22:51 GMT

Lukas, Thanks for the feedback. We will be editing the pocket reference and re-post the edited version.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Lukas Salzburger82 — Fri, 06 Mar 2015 17:16:31 GMT

Great reference. Is it possible to get a printed version?

I found a small error: the dimensions of the SOT23 and the SC70 packages are not entirely correct. The width values are interchanged.

RE: Doing the math: The inside story of the Analog Engineer’s Pocket Reference

Art Kay — Tue, 03 Mar 2015 23:17:16 GMT

Binish,

You are correct. Thanks for finding this issue; we will correct the equation on the next edition. We also plan on adding additional material in future releases, so let us know if there is something you would like to see.

Art