I decided that it will be difficult to sell my technology to another company, as I am winding down my company and retiring.
Most companies in this business don't have any money to spend anyway and they sometimes have designers with big egos that
are not open to other designers ideas. That's a shame. Anyway, I decided to write a book that shares most of my trade secrets
that set my products apart from most others. This way all of my innovations of will not end-up in the dustbin of history.
Maybe some other designers will benefit and the industry as a whole will benefit from my learnings and breakthroughs.
These are not the kinds of things one learns at University or even on the job. I am a EE who designed for heavy hitters in the
computer industry for 25 years, including Sperry Univac (Unisys) and Intel with OEM work for Burroughs and Siemens.
Then I worked for Empirical Audio for 30 years in the high-end audio business. This document is the culmination of my learnings
from 30 years of modding and designing Audio equipment while using novel measurement techniques that no one else in the industry uses.
The design manual is entitled:
Designing Low-Jitter/Low Noise Audio Circuits
It is not a fundamentals manual. It assumes that the reader is a competent digital and analog designer already.
It is short and concise, delivering the ideas in a usable form. Here is the table of contents:
3 About the Author
5 Misunderstood Audio Phenomena
6 More Ideal Passive Parts, Wires and Cables
8 Setup and Hold Times
10 Minimizing and Optimizing Logic Stages
12 Re-Clocking Functional Chips
13 Selecting the Fastest Logic Family and Devices
14 Power Delivery
16 Power Decoupling Capacitors
19 Power Supply and Voltage Regulation
20 Low-Noise PC Board Layout
21 Power Planes, Stack-up and Return Currents
22 Crosstalk Control
23 Connector Pin-Outs
25 Impedance Control for Traces
26 S/PDIF Transmission-Line Terminations
27 Clock Trace Terminations
27 Trace Lengths
28 Minimizing System Ground-Loop Noise
29 Isolators for Digital
30 Low-Noise Op-amp layout
31 S/PDIF Cables and Connectors
32 A Super-Linear Low-Distortion DAC Output Stage
34 Patents
I have not put it on any sales platform yet, but it will probably be available on Amazon Books.
If anyone wants it now, contact me at
[email protected] The introductory price is $49.95 with PayPal. I can email it.
Steve N.
