Wideband Amplification
Multiple-Stage Response Characteristics 1
Amplifier Stage
Gain Optimization 6
Pole
Determination by Circuit Inspection
10
Inductive Peaking
24
Bootstrap
Speed-Up Circuit 40
Source-Follower
Compensation 46
Emitter
Compensation 52
Cascode
Compensation of the Common Base Stage
60
Compensation
Network Synthesis 68
Differential-Amplifier
Compensation 77
Shunt-Feedback
Amplifier Design 79
Shunt-Feedback
Cascode & Darlington
Amplifiers
88
Closure &
References 94
Precision Amplification
Causes of Degradation in Precision 97
Intrinsic Noise 98
Extrinsic Noise: Radiation & Crosstalk 106
Extrinsic Noise: Conductive Interference 114
Differential Amplifiers 127
Instrumentation Amplifiers 137
Low-Level Amplification 146
Isolation Amplifiers 154
Autocalibration 157
Distortion 160
Transconductance Linearity of BJT Diff-Amp 165
BJT and FET Diff-Amp Temperature Characteristics 170
Thermal Distortion 180
Complementary Emitter-Follower Output Amplifier 193
Buffer Amplifier Design 208
References 213
High-Performance Amplification
Current-Input & Feedback Amplifiers 216
Split-Path, Low-Frequency Feedback and Feedbeside Amplifiers 227
Feedforward and Linearized Differential Cascode Amplifiers 240
a-Compensated Gain Cells 249
fT Multipliers 253
High-Performance Buffer Amplifiers 258
Unipolar Voltage-Translating Amplifiers 266
Bootstrapped Input Stages 272
Composite-Feedback & Large-Signal Dynamic Compensation 276
The Gilbert Gain Cell and Multiplier 283
Programmable-Gain Amplifiers 297
Closure 302