Looking for a book on Linear Amp pinouts

[water]

Hello all,

I'm searching for a good book recommendation on Linear Amplifier specs
applications and pin arrangements. The books I found don't generally include
pin arrangements. I'm looking for like a reference guide with all the
pinouts for the various linear amplifiers.
Can anybody steer me in the right direction?

Thanks,

Water

 

[Winfield Hill]

water wrote...

I'm searching for a good book recommendation on Linear Amplifier
specs applications and pin arrangements. The books I found don't
generally include pin arrangements. I'm looking for like a
reference guide with all the pinouts for the various linear
amplifiers. Can anybody steer me in the right direction?

Many books will suggest suitable parts for various circuits.
When using these parts it's best to go to the manufacturer's
web sites and get their datasheets. You'll learn a lot about
the part, with detailed dimension and pinout diagrams. One
useful place to look for data sheets if you don't know the
manufacturer, or their website, is freetradezone.com

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

 

[Lewin A.R.W. Edwards]

manufacturer, or their website, is freetradezone.com

Not a good place to visit any more, it's a payware-only site.

 

[Winfield Hill]

Lewin A.R.W. Edwards wrote...

Not a good place to visit any more, it's a payware-only site.

IFAIK it's still free for currently-manufactured "active"
components and inventory searches. That's worth a lot.

The old component data sheets and other valuable services
like parametric searches and BOM are by paid subscription.

Thanks,
- Win

whill_at_picovolt-dot-com

 

[water]

Yeah, that's a good tip and I see how that site could be useful. Searching
the net for this stuff may be the cheapest and sometimes the quickest way
but,.. it just would be nice if I had one pocket reference book for some of
this data as I'm not always immediately in front on a PC with Internet
access.
As a matter of fact, my home work lab(in the basement) though equipped with
a PC doesn't even have Internet access presently. I have to run upstairs for
that. Not a big deal I realize, and I could go WiFi. But still, the thought
of big book opened on my bench appeals to me. It would just be more
convenient in the end.
Any other thoughts?

Thanks Again,
water

 

[Tim Shoppa]

I'm searching for a good book recommendation on Linear Amplifier specs
applications and pin arrangements. The books I found don't generally include
pin arrangements. I'm looking for like a reference guide with all the
pinouts for the various linear amplifiers.
Can anybody steer me in the right direction?

The whole situation is in such a state of flux that no book could be complete
(there must be thousands and thousands of op-amps out there on the
market, many of which are quite interchangeable but certainly not all!)
and the instant it was published it would be out of date.

There are certain "jellybean" standard pinouts that are common. In some cases
(e.g. SMT single op-amps, as Win has commented on in the past here)
there are multiple standards: the wonderful thing about standards is that
there are so many to choose from!

All manufacturers now have decent websites with pinouts and specifications.
So a "book" listing this sort of stuff is probably less useful today than
it ever was. As for books that tell you what specifications are relevant
for some common applications (e.g. "how to read a datasheet") along
with typical values (so that you don't go thinking that 10Mv/picosecond
is a commonly available number for slew rate!) Horowitz and Hill is very good.

Tim.

 

[Gordon Gaskell]

water:
My local distributor Tritronics has Japanese and German manuals on
diodes, transistors and integrated circuits. MCM has the Japanese
manuals. The ECG NTE cross reference and data sheet manual is useful.
Gordon