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(More customer reviews)This is a design handbook for electronic engineering students and practicing engineers interested in learning practical techniques for designing and analyzing analog circuits using the basic building blocks of transistors, diodes, and op-amps. Readers will notice that the author makes some assumptions about the reader - that he or she has been exposed to undergrad courses in electronic devices, signals and systems, and signal processing. This is not a book for hobbyists.
Chapters one and two are introductory in nature. Chapter 1 provides the motivation for analog circuit design in general. Chapter 2 covers some important signal processing concepts that are the basis of material in later chapters. Chapters three through eight cover the bipolar device physics, the BJT, transistor amplifiers, and approximation techniques for bandwidth estimation and switching speed analysis. Chapter nine covers the basics of CMOS and CMOS amplifiers. The bandwidth estimation techniques developed in earlier chapters for amplifer design work well for CMOS devices as well.
Chapter 10 covers transistor switching, as in how you get a transistor to turn on and off quickly, and how you estimate that speed. Chapter 11 reviews feedback systems and Bode plot methods of designing stable feedback systems. The next two chapters discuss the design, use, and limitations of op-amps including voltage-feedback and current-feedback op-amps. Chapter 14 covers the basics of analog low-pass filter design, including ladder and active implementations of Butterworth, Chebyshev, elliptic, and Bessel filters. Chapter 15 switches topics and goes to PC board layout rules and the use and limitations of passive components. Chapter 16 is a mixed bag of useful design techniques and tricks that don't fit into the other chapters. The book contains illustrative analysis problems and MATLAB and PSPICE design examples throughout as well as chapter problem sets.
This book is a nice companion to The Art of Electronics and other such books that act as capstone courses, since it draws on a wide body of electronics knowledge - not just one course. Highly recommended for the practical kind of information and problems you often don't see in textbooks but that you'll require in industry.
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This book reflects Dr. Thompson's twentyyears of experience designing and teaching analog circuit design, and is an outgrowth of course notes from his graduate-level analog circuit design course taught at Worcester Polytechnic Institute entitled "Analog Circuits and Intuition." In this class, he describes intuitive and "back of the envelope" techniques for designing and analyzing analog circuits, including transistor amplifiers (CMOS and bipolar), transistor switching, thermalcircuit design, magnetic circuit design, control systems, and the like. The application of some simple rules-of-thumb and design techniques is the first step in developing an intuitive understanding of the behavior of complex electrical systems. This book outlines some ways of thinking about analog circuits and systems that hopefully develops such"circuit intuition" and a "feel" for what a good, working analog circuit design should be. *Introduces analog circuit design with a minimum of mathematics.*Gives readers an intuitive "feel" for analog circuit operation and rules-of-thumb for their design.*Uses numerous analogies from digital design to help readers whose main background is in digital make the transition to analog design.*Accompanying CD-ROM contains PowerPoint presentations for each chapter and MATLAB files used in the text.
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