
Ground Loops
Updated with new material 7th January 2019 This set of c. 50 slides is the culmination of my experience over a period of about 25 years building numerous power amplifiers and preamplifiers. I first started out in audio around 1975…

Ovation 250 Power Amplifier
The Ovation 250: A 250W per Channel Audio Power Amplifer (updated 1st June 2013) Introduction Diy Audio is a wonderful activity:- if you cannot afford a $10 000 power amp, you can always build one that comes pretty damn close in…

The Monolithic Op-Amp: A Tutorial Study
This was an invited paper at the ISSCC in 1974 by James Solomon, who at the time worked for National Semiconductor (acquired in 2011 by TI). Those were heady days in semiconductors, with major process and circuit design breakthroughs taking…

Opamp Noise Visualizer
This Excel spread sheet tool was developed from one by Steve Hagman (www.AnalogHome.com) and allows en and ien data for up to 7 opamps to be compared. When using the tool, make sure you enter comparable data – so for…