Op Amp Applications Handbook

Foreword

The signal-processing products of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), along with those of its worthy competitors, have always had broad applications, but in a special way: they tend to be used in critical roles making possible—and at the same time limiting—the excellence in performance of the device, instrument, apparatus, or system using them.

Think about the op amp—how it can play a salient role in amplifying an ultrasound wave from deep within a human body, or measure and help reduce the error of a feedback system; the data converter—and its critical position in translating rapidly and accurately between the world of tangible physics and the world of abstract digits; the digital signal processor—manipulating the transformed digital data ...