Click here to purchase the entire book in PDF format. Introduction If you get the technical information about an op amp (from the manufacturer's datasheets or their website) you ll see a bunch of specifications that tell you exactly what to expect from that particular device. Following is a list of specs and explanations for some of the more important characteristics that you should worry about. Most of these definitions are simplified paraphrases of a chapter of an excellent book called the IC Op-Amp Cookbook written by Walter G. Jung. It's used to be published by SAMS, but now it's published by Prentice Hall (ISBN 0-13-889601-1) You should own a copy of this book if you're planning on doing anything with op amps.