Customer Reviews

Microelectronic Circuit Design

5 star:		(3)
4 star:		(3)
3 star:		(1)
2 star:		(3)
1 star:		(3)

 

 

These reviews certainly demonstrate that everyone has a different point of view. I thought Jaeger's organization was excellent. Jaeger leads you through the material in a user friendly, step by step manner. He provides what I think is the best explanation of pn junction physics. Jaeger takes the space needed to explain fully. Compared to Jaeger,Sedra and Smith race through the material providing few intermediate examples. I think Jaeger TEACHES and Sedra and Smith seem to be summarizing for the benefit of someone who has learned elsewhere.

I'm an EE student who has taken the first course using the Sedra/Smith book but because of a delay in taking the second course, will be using the Jaeger/Blalock text. I'm reviewing the material from the first course as it is laid out in the Jaegaer/Blalock book and find the same material more understandable with more relevant detail.

Jaeger provides a rare balanced coverage of digital and analog electronic circuits along with a comprehensive review of device theory. Highly recommended as an undergraduate textbook for a sequence of courses at sophomore through senior levels, as well as a useful sourcebook.

I'm pretty incensed at this text. If your intention is to learn anything with it, good luck. The text itself isn't terrible. It covers a lot, but unfortunately, it covers far from all that you need to pass the course, or even work the assignments at the end of the chapter. The biggest problem this book suffers from is a complete and utter lack of examples

And here's where it gets ironic. The samples that are in the text are amazing. They're laid out in an easy to understand way, providing all the details of working through the problem, from beginning to end, with the approach, unknowns, assumptions, and steps all laid out. Unfortunately, you're looking at maybe one example per section tops. So if you want to know how to do anything that's not covered in that single, specific example, you're **** out of luck, friend. And if your professor is like mine, and lectures straight out of the book, literally copying the slides the author's make available online onto the board, and then for "examples" literally just copying the one or two examples straight out of the book, then you're going to be stuck between a rock and a hard place.

To give a concrete example, say one of the problems asks you to find the power consumed by a diode. No where in the book, let alone the chapter or the section, will you find an example of how to do this. I suppose that you can derive it, but then what's the point of the text, if it's not so much going to allude to the path that you need to take, why the hell would you pay so much for it? I'm ashamed of the author's for having the audacity to publish this book, I'm not going to lie.

If you really want to learn the structure and principles of function of the different types of electronic components, this is the perfect book for you.
The theory is too easy to understand and it has a lot of exercises and problems with different dificulty levels.
You can use this textbook in different courses, like: Analog Circuits, Electronic Circuit Design,and electronic physics.

Jaeger includes an incredible amount of material in this book, but he fails to organize it in a meaningful manner. Most of the sections of the book were disjoint and never related to each other, which confuses the beginning engineer.

The text is very disorganized as another reviewer has mentioned. There are several exercise question not even covered by the text. The general consensus is that some of the text was removed but the questions remained. It makes for interesting homework.

It could possibly be my personal intelligence level, but this was a very difficult book for me to understand. It was required for my Electronics I class, so I didn't have much of a choice. Luckily I saved some money on this book by buying it used on here, so that made me feel a bit better about me not understanding the book. Not one I would personally recommend, but if you don't have a choice, go for it.

Used this book for a full year in electronic design 1&2 the examples are vague and have almost nothing to do with the end of chapter problems. The book is full of errors, they could write a whole new book on just the mistakes they made in this one. I would look in another direction if you are buying to teach yourself, and if you are buying for a class...try to find another book you can use as a reference cause this one won't suffice. I refer a lot to the Sedra and Smith circuits book.

This was actually an awesome book, but the kindle app is so terrible, in the sense that the formatting of the pages and overall user customization is pitiful. They are too busy trying to prevent copyright issues than provide a nice user experience. Will never buy a technical book for the kindle again.