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Contents

Foreword vii
Acknowledgments x
About the Author xi

I. First Things First: The Philosophy of Troubleshooting 1
2. Choosing the Right Equipment 14
3. Getting Down to the Component Level: Resistors and Inductors 26
4. Getting Down to the Component Level: Capacitor Problems 40
5. Preventing Material and Assembly Problems: PC Boards and
Connectors, Relays and Switches 50
6. Understanding Diodes and Their Problems 65
7. Identifying and Avoiding Transistor Problems 77
8. Operational Amplifiers-The Supreme Activators 89
9. Quashing Spurious Oscillations 108
I 0. The Analog-Digital Boundary: A Never-Never Land? 120
I I. Dealing with References and Regulators 135
I 2. Roundup of “Floobydust”: Loose Ends That Don’t Fit Elsewhere 143
I 3. Letters to Bob 155
I 4. Real Circuits and Real Problems 172

Appendixes
A. Digital ICs with Nonstandard Pinouts 187
B. Operational Amplifiers with Nonstandard Pinouts 188
C. Understanding and Reducing Noise Voltage on Three-Terminal
Regulators by Errol1 Dietz 191
D. Testing Fast Comparators for Voltage Offset 194
E. VF VS. IF on Various Diodes 196
F. How to Get the Right Information from a Datasheet 199
G. More on SPICE 203
H. Pease’s Troubleshooting Articles as Originally Published in EDN 208

Index 209

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