Available for download: Jiri Dostal's "Operational Amplifiers"

Jun 07, 2005 23 Replies

As I mentioned about a week and a half ago, I've scanned in Jiri Dostal's classic tome, "Operational Amplifiers" from 1981. It's available for download as

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. Enjoy!



As with the other books there, if I find out I'm violating someone's copyright I'll yank the file immediately.


---Joel


Given that the copyright notice is in the first few pages, what kind of notice are you looking for?

PN2222A

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My favorite is "Trespassers will be violated" ;-)

...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson, P.E. | mens | | Analog Innovations, Inc. | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC\'s and Discrete Systems | manus | | Phoenix, Arizona Voice:(480)460-2350 | | | E-mail Address at Website Fax:(480)460-2142 | Brass Rat | | http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I love to cook with wine. Sometimes I even put it in the food.

Hello PN2222A,

In the Wild West we tend to respect the more real things, such as a thundering iron ;-)

That's why you often see signs out here such as "Protected by Smith & Wesson" or "Our Rottweiler can make it to the other fence in 4 1/2 seconds -- Can you?".

Regards, Joerg

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I know it miht be too late but, can I get a copy of the book?

Amazon has the 2nd edition used for $27. It's a very good book if you're prepared to follow the math. (It isn't difficult math, but a tech or hobbyist might be better off with something simpler.)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Am 18.01.2017 um 13:24 schrieb snipped-for-privacy@gmail.com:

Up to EUR 1.167,12 transport not included.

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ROTFL. OK, some offer it cheaper.

Cheers, Gerhard

Sometimes people do that when they run out of stock, to avoid having to re-create the listing.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

I gather it can happen when pricing algorithms run amok too. If I set my price to be 10% more than the market average say :)

John Devereux

With a 1981 date I'd guess that it has no CMOS in it?

Math ?? If you're only a user, you can write down all you need to know about OpAmps in a couple of pages. ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I'm looking for work... see my website. Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions.

The second edition is 1990. Dostal writes like the guy who invented the op amp--he doesn't leave out anything.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

He writes like Philbrick ?:-}

Is that 1990 edition available? ...Jim Thompson

| James E.Thompson | mens | | Analog Innovations | et | | Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus | | STV, Queen Creek, AZ 85142 Skype: skypeanalog | | | Voice:(480)460-2350 Fax: Available upon request | Brass Rat | | E-mail Icon at http://www.analog-innovations.com | 1962 | I'm looking for work... see my website. Thinking outside the box... producing elegant solutions.

Yeah, $27 on Amazon as I said.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

Yep, the $27 one is still available, shipped from the U.K. I bought one for $28 with tons of annotations and underlining.

Thanks, - Win

Sometimes the marginalia are the most useful parts.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Dr Philip C D Hobbs Principal Consultant ElectroOptical Innovations LLC Optics, Electro-optics, Photonics, Analog Electronics 160 North State Road #203 Briarcliff Manor NY 10510 hobbs at electrooptical dot net http://electrooptical.net

A printed and bound used book from Amazon is nice, but it'd be convenient to have the scan saved away as well.

The 2005 link seems to be dead. I have a scan of the 1981 edition, 585 pages, 18.5 Mbytes, see DropBox:

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Thanks, - Win

This was probably Joel Kolstad's scan. The book is 36 years old and seriously out of print. Nonetheless it's still covered by copyright; perhaps that's why it's no longer available at OSU. But my DropBox link is only available here to s.e.d. readers who want to read and discuss Dostal's ideas and writings. Save away. I'll take it down after a few weeks.

Thanks, - Win

Awesome! Thanks Win, (I think I'll order a used copy.)

George H.

What was "state of the art" in opamps in 1981? Could you buy a RRI/O on a beer-not-chapagne budget, even?

I know the TL0xx series was available as the book "Musical Applications of Microprocessors" is stuffed full of circuits with them (TL072)

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