Troubleshooting Analog Circuits

Foreword Acknowledgments About the Author1. First Things First: The Philosophy of Troubleshooting 2. Choosing the Right Equipment3. Getting Down to the Component Level: Resistors and Inductors 4. Getting Down to the Component Level: Capacitor Problems 5. Preventing Material and Assembly Problems: PC Boards and Connectors, Relays and Switches 6. Understanding Diodes and Their Problems 7. Identifying and Avoiding Transistor Problems 8. Operational Amplifiers—The Supreme Activators9. Quashing Spurious Oscillations 10. The Analog-Digital Boundary: A Never-Never Land? 11. Dealing with References and Regulators 12. Roundup of "Floobydust": Loose Ends That Don't Fit Elsewhere13. Letters to Bob 14. Real Circuits and Real Problems Appendixes A. Digital ICs with Nonstandard Pinouts B. Operational Amplifiers with Nonstandard Pinouts C. Understanding and Reducing Noise Voltage on Three-Terminal Regulators by Erroll Dietz D. Testing Fast Comparators for Voltage Offset E. VF vs. IF on Various Diodes F. How to Get the Right Information from a Datasheet G. More on SPICE H. Pease's Troubleshooting Articles as Originally Published in EDN Index