Customer Reviews

Microelectronic Circuit and Devices, 2nd Edition

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

 

 

I found this text to be geared more toward the electrical engineer who is not going to fabricate IC's, but rather use them. It is not quite as hefty as Sedra and Smith, but it is easier to follow, in my opinion. It is the first book I would go to as a reference.

The actual content of this book is thorough enough, but it becomes clear that it is not well organized when you find yourself flipping from one chapter to another to an appendix and back to another chapter just to find information that should (and is in other texts) be lumped together.

Please be careful if ordering a used copy of this book. It's divided into 2 sections, A and B, with the same ISBN (which was probably a bad idea of the publisher). Part B is the only part with a barcode. Me and a classmate both ordered this book used (and fulfilled by Amazon), and both only received the second half. Thankfully Amazon was willing to give a full refund.

This is a great book, but be warned that the paper back has more than one volume! The hard cover is all in one book.

The book is what I needed for class and satisfies all requirements, but the amazon add said that it was to be hardcover and I received a soft covered two part book. It is easy to carry around, but not hardcover as expected.

One star is even too much!
With this book you can only have an idea of what is going on, it is more like a little bit of everything rather than a complete understanding. If you really want to learn about electronics take "Microelectronic Circuit Design" by Richard C. Jaeger; it is much better and gives you a compleate coverage and explanation.

The problems and exercises in the book are POORLY constructed:

In order to solve a problem, you may very well have to constantly flip back and forth between pages because the author was too cheap to put a simple diagram on the same page as the problem.

I.e.
"Use Figure P2.30 and the V-i characteristic in figure 2.550 to solve for the circuit values in Figure 2.75, with R=25k ohms ...."

That would involve flipping back and forth between a lot of pages.

However, the problems are very thorough and cover a great deal of the subject w/o wasting too much time. For various circuits, the author goes directly to Thevenin Equivalent circuits rather than showing a concept using a dozen or more different circuits.