The following is Chapter 21 “Composite Amplifiers” from Linear Technology's Volume II book entitled, “Analog Circuit Design–Immersion in the Black Art of analog design” by Bob Dobkin and the late-Jim ...

Video op amps have improved significantly since their debut in the early 1990s. The first versions operated from ±15V supplies, featured bandwidths of 50 MHz, and delivered slew rates in the low ...

Video systems operating from single +5-V supplies use ac-coupled RGB and composite video signals that operate only within the useful dynamic range of the single-supply amplifiers in the signal chain.

After plugging the new DVD player into the s-video connector of the big screen TV and seeing the image, I knew there was no going back to composite video. A few weeks later I purchased a programmable ...