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Summary: Electric Eyes
Review: There's some tasks that are well done but this book is too large. You need too much time for this book. The way to explain the things are neither the best. When I was studying, we didn't use this book at all, because it was too complicated. There it was, I spent my money to buy a nearly useless book!
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Summary: Old Fashioned
Review: A new editon is due soon - hope it's better. The main difficulty is that this book presents material but doesn't give much insight. Many of the problems extend the material in the text in nonobvious ways - a bit challenging for the reader. And the use of PSpice is terribly dull - used only to verify hand analysis.
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Summary: The Best Ref. IN Electronics Ever
Review: This book Cover the Fundaments of Electronics for Electronics Engineering Students - If you could solve all its sheets You will be able to understand any thing you study in this field even Manufacturing Tachnologies and VLSI/ULSI.
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Summary: A must for serious students of circuits
Review: This book is an absolute must for anyone who wishes to study analog circuits in detail. The book explains all the concepts in a very easy to understand manner though I would recommend it only people with some background in circuits. Knowledge of network analysis would greatly help. The best part of this book is the device physics treatment. Such an exhaustive treatment of device physics is not found in many contemporary books catering to first course on circuits. The emphasis is on MOS technology which is good. The only complaint against this book is its size. Some chapters can be trimmed down a bit reducing the overall size to about 800 pages from the present 1000+ pages. All in all a great book.
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Summary: The best [money] I've ever spent
Review: I bought this book in my freshman year in college. At first I hated it, reading it was a pain, it was a big book and just too much. I didn't learn the value of this book until my third year when I had to take a separate course on every chapter that was mentioned in this book, that's when I got confused by details and tangents of other books and had to get back to this book to pass my courses. I used this book in EVERY circuit courses that I took in college, and even now after graduation I still go back to it to look things up. I have read almost the whole thing; it talks about almost everything you need to know about circuits in college. It even got a table of filters and their transfer functions in chapter 11, knowing it is a must for every job interview you go to. Consider it a bible for electrical engineering.
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Summary: Having this book is a must
Review: I bought this book in my freshman year in college. At first I hated it, reading it was a pain, it looked too big and just too much. I didn't learn the value of this book until my third year when I had to read a separate book about every chapter that was mentioned in this book, that's when I got confused with all the details and tangants of other books and I had to get back to this book to pass my exams. I used this book in almost EVERY circuit course that I took throughout my college years, and even now after graduation I still go back to it to look things up. I have read almost the whole thing, everything you need to know for college courses is in it, it even has a table of filters and their transfer functions in chapter 11, learning those tables is a must for every job interviews you go to. I consider this book a bible for electrical engineering.
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Summary: Best Book Ever
Review: I am a third year comp. eng. student at University of Toronto, and two of my courses required Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra & Smith. In my three years experience, I haven't come across a book that is so thorough in its explanations. All concepts are clearly (and concisely) conveyed with appropriate examples. I would rate the book suitable for beginners through to advanced. For the new students, the book makes for an amazing textbook; the more advanced students can use the book as a reference. The copious end-of-chapter problems are more than adequate for testing the material learnt in the chapter.The size of the book scared me at first, but I came to accept that not all good things come in small packages. This book is well worth the investment of time and money!
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Summary: horrible book to learn from
Review: I'm finishing up my sophmore year in EE and we are using this book in class. I currently have a 3.6 grade point average and have received A's in my EE classes. This is the worst book I have ever tried to learn from. The author consistently says, "Obviously. . ." when nothing about the authors explanation is obvious at all. This book is very confusing. It pulls equations out of no where without explaining very well at all where they came from. The examples are much easier than the problems for the chapters so you have no clue how to do the homework that you are assigned. I can't wait to sell it back at the end of the semester!!! In the mean time I'm looking for other books that teach the same topics so that I can actually learn.
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Summary: Great book!!!
Review: Ive been using this book for around 2 years. Doesnt skip any detail what so ever. The CD that comes with it gives some great examples and a demo of Electronic Workbench (in my opinon, better and more user friendly than Psipice). The book also gives some good examples of the material beeing covered.
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Summary: Neither clear, nor up-to-date, nor integrated with PSpice
Review: This book seems to be the result of revision by accretion -- each edition adds topics but the overall plan is inadequately revised. Like beads on a necklace, no interconnections. Even worse, circuits are presented with no practical insight or motivation. Seldom are answers given to questions like: What is the reason for using a particular circuit? What are its shortcomings and advantages? The authors take standard practice for granted, and take their job as description of standard technique. So too often you have no idea why things are done, what are the compromises, or what to explore to improve matters. These days circuits are simulated easily using the free PSpice software. This book makes only a token attempt to use this software. Virtually all the examples of its use are straightforward verifications of hand design. Nowhere are we treated to PSpice as a design aid, an integral part of the design process. We are led to believe that every design is carried to near completion by hand, and then PSpice is used to check our algebra, or maybe to include second order effects that we dropped in the hand analysis. However, reality is a balance of thought and simulation, not explored in this book. A design carried out entirely by hand compared to one done jointly with simulation will be less original, slower to design, and poorer in performance. My last gripe is with MOSFET's. It is clear that the authors have a bipolar bias, despite the huge importance of MOSFETs in modern IC's. The MOSFET analysis is very limited. The PSpice models for MOSFETs are hopelessly oversimple. Bottom line: Look elsewhere. I'd start with "Analog Integrated Circuit Design" by David Johns, Ken Martin, Kenneth W. Martin, and "Digital Integrated Circuit Design" by Ken Martin, Kenneth W. Martin
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