Customer Reviews

Electronic Devices and Circuit Theory

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I have the sixth edition of this book,and i think that althought is not the best book of the world is quite good book.You must learn about basic electricity first, a book like "basic electricity" by Nooger Van Valkenburgh is a very good one.You must know the Ohm law,Kirchhoff laws,simplify pasive circuits ( serie circuits,parallel circuits and complex circuits,what is a capacitor a inductance, thevenin's theorem and other things like that) The content of the book is based on the semiconductor components.The book explains what a diode is,how it works,the reason of his function,his characteristics,and many application circuits (How to convert ac current to dccurrent, how to change the level of dc voltage of a wave,etc);the book also explains what a transistor is and his apllications(amplifiers, an element for do digital circuits and the base of electronics),the book tells you how to polarizate a transistor,how amplifies and his models,and many circuits.Finally the book tells you what an operational amplifier is,power amplifiers,oscillator circuits(a circuit that converts dc current to ac current) and other control power dispositives. The book also have many problems,some illustrations,and a basic course of PSpice( a program for simulate electronic circuits).

I'm An electronics eng. and this was the book that I used to learn the first concepts and circuits, it's easy to understand.

If You wanna know what a transistor, tiristor, or op-amp is, and how do they work, this book is gonna tell you.

I give it 4 stars because it has some mistakes in its edition. Some times it say NPN and the transistor is a PNP, and things like that.

I was a teacher of eletronic and I used this book to introduce the fundamentals of discret devices for 3 years. This book has a good and clear explanation of eletronics theory since junction construction until the elementary integrated circuit. I recomend this book for anyone that wont to rewiew the eletronics basics and for teachers to be use in technician and egeneering regular cource.

The authors' Preface clearly states that "over the years, we have learned that improved readability can be attained through general appearance of the text."

Well what if I tell these authors that their publisher, Prentice Hall, still hasn't achieved their stated and important goal even after 8 editions of this textbook.

They begin by poorly printing all the text's equations in the text jacket cover using horizontal format which is very difficult to read and locate a given equation. They should take a good look at a competing textbook by Floyd.

Floyd does indeed achieve what these two authors intended goal: of making the appearance help the reader want to read the text but have yet to actually achieve it. Floyd also has more technical topics which Boylestad et al clearly have left out in their textbook.

Boylestad is finally being dropped at my college after being criticized for some of the things I just mentioned above. Floyd is now being used.

Students like Floyd's easy format and other easy to follow features.

I used this book during my junior in college and was so helpful in my analysis about transistors, how to bias them and the authors explanation about the Small Signal Analysis in AC Amplification. This book is one of the best books books I read about design analysis and design simplification

This book has to be the worst book on electronics ever. I had to use this book for my second course in electronics and it was just too simplistic and not in-depth enough. The examples are very simplistic and the worst part of the book is the problems. The problems are basically identical in difficulty to the examples with the "numbers" changed around. One can not even read the book and solve all the problems by simply flipping back to the examples and copying them. And I haven't even mentioned the ton of errors in the book. Every other formula is wrong and the notion is very poor and ambigous. If you are getting this book to help you in a course, good luck... You better hope your prof. gives excellent lectures and take good notes.

The authors give an excellent description of non-linear circuit components. However, the technical terms used in this book are sometimes confusing for the average reader. It is difficult to understand if you have never been exposed to these types of circuits before.

I had the 5th edition in college and bought the 7th edition for work and it helped me a lot in Transistors circuits design. It is easy to read and it doesn't give you too much theory that is sometimes confusing. Lots of example and even how to interpret Datasheets.

A must have in you library.

I am currently a student at Queensborough Community College in Bayside, NY. It explains electronic theory in detail. You get exactly what you need to know and a heck of a lot of other topics (with examples) that are high tech. I recommend this book to anyone interested in studying electronics.

Although this is not the sort of book for someone studying to become a device physicist, it is the right kind of book for somebody taking an introductory electronics lab course that includes biasing of junction (i.e pnp or npn) transistors. The author begins with a simple discussion of the role of the pn junction in a diode and then builds on that concept to explain pnp and npn transistors. This book does not go on to explain transistors in terms of more sophisticated ideas in solid state physics and statistical mechanics such as band gaps, fermi levels, or chemical potentials. For that sort of more advanced treatment one should read Shockley's seminal treatment of the subject: Electrons and Holes in Semiconductors with applications to Transistor Electronics.