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Comparators

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  • Covers all aspects of the specification, circuit design and functioning of a comparator effectively in one book
  • Includes new information dealing with non-ideal behaviors
  • Discusses wide variety of available components, in terms of performance and applicability
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This book explores circuit designs that accomplish the conversion of an analog signal to a digital signal of a single bit. Starting with the simple comparator, many alternative circuit arrangements and enhancements are elaborated, including hysteresis, negative feedback and a variety of adaptive thresholds. Further, the non-ideal behavior of practical elements and circuits are covered, including input offsets, noise, delay, delay dispersion and oscillation, along with techniques for dealing with these aspects. The wide variety of available components is discussed in terms of performance and applicability.  No stone is left unturned in addressing each and every issue that can affect the engineering tasks related to comparators, from the viewpoint of how their performance can affect the system in which they are a critical component.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Fischer Consulting, Palo Alto, USA

    Michael C. Fischer

About the author

Michael C. Fischer: Born 1940 Jun 11 in Coleman, TX.  BSEE 1966 Univ of Texas, Austin.  Research and Development Engineer, Project Manager, Department Manager at Tracor, Inc, Magnavox Research Labs, Hewlett Packard Co.  Principal, owner, consulting engineer at Fischer Consulting.  Numerous contributions to radio navigation, precise time and frequency control, electronic measurement, RF and microwave communications, optical data storage, optoelectronics; 12 patents.  Life Senior Member, IEEE.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Comparators

  • Authors: Michael C. Fischer

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-95742-1

  • Publisher: Springer Cham

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95741-4Published: 15 March 2022

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-95744-5Published: 16 March 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-95742-1Published: 14 March 2022

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 109

  • Number of Illustrations: 48 b/w illustrations, 1 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Circuits and Systems, Microwaves, RF and Optical Engineering, Electronics and Microelectronics, Instrumentation

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