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13 Revision History

Date

Revision

Description of Changes

01 Nov 2002

1

First Release

03 Dec 2004

2

General grammatical and formatting changes to entire document.

Specific changes:

•

Moved note in Table 3 to Chapter 10: Choosing the Feedback Circuit

on page 30.

•

Added Chapter 4: Safe Operating Area on page 16.

•

Simplified mathematical representations of the intermodulation

product in Chapter 5: Intermodulation Distortion Product on page 17.

•In Chapter 6:

Printed Circuit Board Layout Considerations on

page 20, change from “The copper area can be connected to (-Vcc)

available on pin 4.” to “The copper area must be connected to -Vcc

available on pin 4.”.

•In Section 10.1: The bias of an inverting amplifier on page 30, change

of section title, and correction of referred figure to Figure 71.