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What? Another textbook on analog circuit design? Well, this is not a textbook per se; rather, it
is designed to be more of a design handbook for practicing engineers and students interested
in learning more real-world techniques for designing and analyzing analog circuits using transistors,
diodes, and operational amplifi ers. The hope is that the reader will fi nd a good mixture
of theoretical techniques and also real-world design examples and test results.
This author is a practicing electrical engineer in the analog and power electronics realm who
also has had the opportunity to teach at Worcester Polytechnic Institute.
The careful reader, upon review of the chapter references, will note that I have a fondness for
using older references. This is due in part to the fact that the authors of these older texts and
papers did not have computers available to them for circuit simulations and mathematical
number-crunching. These references, in many cases, give very useful approximations, intuitive
insights, and different ways of looking at diffi cult circuit analysis problems. |