Table of Contents

1 Operational Amplifier Fundamentals2 Circuits with Resistive Feedback3 Active Filters: Part I4 Active Filters: Part II5 Static Op Amp Limitations6 Dynamic Op Amp Limitations7 Noise8 Stability9 Nonlinear Circuits10 Signal Generators11 Voltage References and Regulators12 D-A and A-D Converters13 Nonlinear Amplifiers and Phase-Locked Loops

About the Author

SERGIO FRANCO is a professor of Electrical Engineering at San Francisco State University. He was born in Friuli, Italy,and earned his Ph.D from the university of Illinois at Urbana-champaign. Prior to becoming professor, Dr. Franco had extensive industrial experience and has worked and publised in such diverse areas as solid state phycsis,pattern reconition, electronic music, IC design,and medical, consumer and automotive electronics. Dr. Franco is also the author of the textbook Electric Circuit Fundamentals, Oxford University Press, 1995. In addition to teaching, Dr. Franco consults for industry.