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Microelectronics

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The book is a timeless electronics reference of basic and advanced knowledge of op-amps and other comparators

First, I have an undergrad degree in applied math and computer science, along with about 2 years of mechanical engineering courses. I am coming at this without the benefit of a formal EE education, but with what should be more than enough math skills to tackle it.

I started reading this as I want to know more about analog electronics; I skipped the digital sections as I've had classes on those already.

This book is probably just fine as a reference for someone who knows the subject matter already, but it is terrible as a learning aid.

I expect some things to be a little "off" given the publish date, but I was disappointed with the lack of detail. I spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the author was implying in critical sections like biasing FETs.

This book requires a lot of jumping between chapters (the chapter on frequency response of amplifiers is terrible about this), and equations are often presented after some hardcore mathemagic has been done on them, with little attempt to show how the equation was derived.

I attempted most of the solved problems in the 8 or so chapters I made it through, and a lot of the time, it required clever guessing or brute force to figure out what approach I was supposed to take. In addition, many of the solutions appear to be flat out wrong.

Bottom line-stay away from this if you are a beginner in this area.