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Analog Circuits (World Class Designs)

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World class? Here's a review of some of the chapters: Review of Feedback systems....Basic Operation Amplifier Topologies....review of passive components and a case study in PC board layout, 4 chapters if you can believe it--on filter design, a chapter on noise....all of these represent basics, rudimentary material an EE grad should have mastered...and can hardly be considered world class. Some of the remaining chapters: How to Design Analog circuits without a computer....My approach to feedback design...Jim Williams "zoo circuit", while having their merits....can all be found in the "EDN series for
design engineers". And to publish Pease's notes on Vbe.....Pulease, Pease.... "What's all this vbe stuff" can be found online for free.

In summary, this text will help augment an undergraduate EE's education. It might be useful for non-hardware or digital designer types who have to stray out of their comfort zones, into the analog domain. But there is little in this text that actually world class. Williams Zoo circuit is the the only world class design. Everything else is either rudimentary, or a rip off of other previous published material.

I downgraded the text to 3 stars because the text is somewhat deceptive as to what it purports to be. It should be more appropriately titled: "Analog Circuits: Basics To Be Mastered". The authors are competent, and well known in the field, so it wasn't downgraded any further.

I was disappointed because much of this material was published elsewhere 18 years ago in the Jim Williams art and science books or online.
Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (EDN Series for Design Engineers)
The best new material is from Bonnie Baker about sigma-delta ADCs and when to use them or SAR ADCs.

This somewhat resembles a textbook, with some basic material stitching together the more advanced stuff, and could possibly be used in that way. Some chapters seem to have been updated in a half-hearted way, such as the discussion of passives which mentions SMT as an option, but then goes on to discuss carbon comp and carbon film as relevant technologies. And please give the whining about Spice a rest, or at least update it. Two AT clones and megabytes of unused software? We're way beyond that now man. It's gigabytes of unused software.

Some of the basic tutorials seem uninspired too, like the "Review of Feedback Systems" with mandatory mention of the useless Routh criterion, etc. If you have a transfer function and want to see what it does, then get a computer dude. I understand it was once common to do division without a calculator, and for some reason they also still teach that in school.

OK, it is not really a text book and it is not really (all) by the famous/infamous Bob Pease, but nevertheless it is a good book to have on hand if you need to design analogue circuits for the real world.

While many semiconductor mfg's were satisfied to supply sketchy data and pinouts, National Semiconductor always provided excellent applications notes. Here Mr. Pease and his colleagues continue this, along with the mentality that goes into WORLD CLASS engineering. KUDOS!

This is almost 80 percent a repitition from Jim Williams Analog. So wasnt of much use to me coz I had two title from Jimmy. However , if you dont have those, its simply the best.

The title is misleading. It mostly covers some very elementary concepts. And much of the material comes from other books.

It seems rather presumptuous for Bob Pease to say "Every year there are 200,000 Chinese engineering graduates, and they don't know what we know. We can solve problems they cannot." Could it be the Chinese engineering graduates to cause Bob to lose his job at National?