Re: College EE Textbook Recommendations

On Mar 27, 10:53 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
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On 27 Mar 2007 10:49:07 -0700, m...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:



On Mar 27, 7:40 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
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On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 10:25:51 GMT, Richard Kanarek

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Greetings.

I have elderly Electronics Engineering text books, but I don't have
any new/recent ones. For both my education and curiosity, I'd like to
get some (one or more) newish EE college text books. GOOD ones -- and
by "GOOD" I mean well written. I have a newish Electronics Technology
text book that strikes me as being rather mediocre, even with its
charming pastel printing and excessive diagrams. I certainly don't
want to go out of my way to acquire mediocre EE textbooks, too.

With regard to a particular area of study, I'd be interested in books
relevant to digital logic and radio. I assume "digital logic" is self
explanatory; by "radio" I mean anything somewhat related to what would
be involved with designing a AM/FM radio receiver. e.g. mesh/node
analysis; design of discrete "transistor" (Bipolar, FET) "circuits"
(audio/RF); analysis of oscillators/filters; etc.

For clarity:
a. I am only interested in obtaining recommendations and titles/ISBN
numbers. This is NOT a RFQ! ;-)
b. I am interested in undergraduate/graduate EE (electronics) books.
Clive "Max" Maxfield (http://www.maxmon.com/), for example, has
probably written several good electronics related books (I have fond,
if dim, recollections of "Bebop to the Boolean Boogie"). His books are
not, however, college text books, so they are disqualified from this
discussion. Ditto all the other various hobbyist/technology
(non-Engineering)/miscellaneous electronics books.
c. I'm looking for pointers to best-of-breed books. I'm perfectly
capable of randomly locating unvetted textbooks via Internet searches.
d. Although I'm located in the USA, a pointer towards a particularly
good UK electronics engineering (again, NOT technology) text book
would quite welcome (pip, pip)!

Thanks in advance!

Cordially,
Richard Kanarek

Fundamentals never change!

My 50 year-old MIT text books still serve me well.

...Jim Thompson
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Gee, the first revision of Gray and Meyer didn't have any CMOS analog
in it. Low power CMOS analog design books came out later than than.

Time marches on.

Do you need a book to "design"?

All I care about are the device characteristics.

I've never had a course in CMOS, yet I design ASIC's in it daily at
the device level.

Likewise I'm sure I could design a toooob amplifier if I wanted ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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| Analog/Mixed-Signal ASIC's and Discrete Systems | manus |
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America: Land of the Free, Because of the Brave

I started in MOS linear (as in NMOS, not CMOS) before Gray and Meyer
updated their book. There were plenty of tricks in the ISSCC journals
that were useful, but I would have liked to have it all summed up in a
more "linear" fashion. I don't think education is a waste of time, but
your mileage may vary.

I suppose many of the things in the early papers were easily seen once
your started simulations, such as the right hand plane zero issue in
MOS op amps. Still, why reinvent the wheel?


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