Written for the practicing electronics professional, Tolerance Analysis of Electronic Circuits Using MATLAB offers a comprehensive, step-by-step treatment of methods used to perform analyses essential to the design process of circuit cards and systems of cards, including:
Using a practical approach that allows engineers and technicians to put the techniques directly into practice, the author presents the mathematical procedures used to determine performance limits. The topics and techniques discussed include extreme value and root-sum-square analysis using symmetric and asymmetric tolerance, Monte Carlo analysis using normal and uniform distributions, sensitivity formulas, tolerance analyses of opamp offsets, and anomalies of high-Q ac circuits.
Derivatives and Sensitivities
Approximate Derivatives and Sensitivities
Tolerance Analysis of a DC Differential Amplifier
MATLAB M-File diffamp.m
Nominal Output = Zero
Combined Gain and Offset Analysis
More Complicated Circuits
Tolerance Analysis of AC Circuits
Tolerance Analysis of Bandpass Filter
Bandpass Filter with Asymmetric Tolerances
Lowpass Filter
Spice Results Compared
Tolerance Analysis of Stability
PART 2: MONTE CARLO ANALYSIS
General Comments Concerning RSS
Uniform vs. Gaussian Distribution
Ratiometric Tolerances
MCA of Opamp dc Offsets
MCA of RTD Circuit
MCA of Bandpass Filter (BPF) Circuit
Fast Monte Carlo Analysis
Sallen and Key BPF
More MCA/FMCA Examples
LTC 1562 BPF
MFB All-Pass Filter
NS MF10 Switched Capacitor Filters
Buffered 60-Hz Notch Filter
APPENDIX
Derivation of the RSS Equation
BPF Sensitivity Expressions
Confidence Intervals
Percent Yield
Mathematical Curios
M-File Listings
REFERENCES
Biography
Robert R. Boyd was a technical instructor in the United States Air Force for 19 years. Upon his retirement from the Air Force in 1971, he enrolled at the University of New Mexico and obtained a BSEE degree with honors in 1974. Mr. Boyd was employed in the aerospace industry in anlog circuit design until 1996. He is presently a consultant in analog circuit design and analysis and teaches a course in the tolerance analysis of electronic circuits at the University of California Extension (Irvine, CA).