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Binding: Paperback
Brand: Timemist
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.3815
EAN: 9780750677868
ISBN: 0750677864
Label: Newnes
Manufacturer: Newnes
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 496
Publication Date: 2006-05-01
Publisher: Newnes
Studio: Newnes
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This book reflects Dr. Thompson's twenty
years 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, thermal
circuit 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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Summary: wrong title!!
Comment: I am very disappointed about this book. It absolutely has a wrong title. The author may have different definition of "Intuitive Design". Detailed excamples in this book are helpful for beginner. But after go through all of the equations and derivations, you can not get any ideal about intuitive design!
Customer Rating:
Summary: Misleading Title
Comment: I've been an analog designer for years. This book is not intuitive, because it walks the reader through formulas a circuit designer would hardly ever use, except when in school. Transistor circuits can be designed quickly using a few rules of thumb. But this book doesn't include any of these. You can get op amp handbooks from the vendor, like National Semiconductor; or circuits from a mixed signal vendor like Maxxim, and modify these circuits to fit your requirements. The same applies for power supplies. If you need to learn how to design analog circuits, there are many "cook books" out there to get the job done fast.
Usually, if a designer is given a spec for a circuit, he doesn't have time to spend weeks reading this book. He uses a few nomographs, and gets a bread board design fast. This book uses many SPICE circuits, which are hard to read. Many times the author references elements which are not labeled on the schematic. True, a analog designer needs to to be eclectic,
but he also needs to get the job done ASAP. I should add that many analog designers work with DSP technology too. This has been omitted. There are analog simulation CAD packages out there, from Analog Devices, as well as TINA. SPICE is a pain to use.
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Summary: A good guidebook on analog circuit design
Comment: 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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Summary: Very good analog design text
Comment: The book is full of examples and real-world stuff on analog circuit design. Would be a good addition to any designer's library.
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