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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: Want A grade?
Review: This book is the best book that suite your Analog Electronics undergraduate course.It really worths the money.
My advice:if you are an intermideate analog electronics student get this book and give it atleast 40% of your time but if that will not fit your schedule let me tell you that: Sedra is for the student who has time to read and solve tons of problems! it is intended to transfet the mid-level of electrical experiance from the author to your brain (this is why it will cost you time).
If you are looking for shortcuts to not exceed the C grade you can simply find something like Floyed book and suchs!.
you can use it as a ref. for the basics of the material if you are an advanced student who dont have another ref.
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Summary: Good book for introduction course
Review: This is a good book for introduction course, no matter what others say. I used this book for the first class of Analog circuit many years ago.If one finds this book difficult, they may not follow the concepts very well. Here are the reasons one may find this book difficult. 1. They just learn by examples, not learn/understand the concepts. Learning is just reading examples before Exam. This won't work after school for sure. (I think that is very poor learning.) 2. They do not have good basic math skills 3. They do not have basic background of semiconductor. This book is for engineers. If you think you will be engineers, this book is for you. This book is not really that difficult If you have semiconductor and good math background. It cannot be bad book. I have many books that are unreadable. This is not one of them. If you found this is very difficult, then you may not want to be engineer. I suggest one finds this book really difficult (after spending time to read) to reconsider the career since one won't want to waste 4 years of time and money to get a degree that does fit the real his/her career. Nowaday, engineer is just as dificult as other careers to find a job and the pay is not such attactive (semiconductor comapanies have been downturn for 4 years now) I am in semiconductor field. Circuit is not my favor, it is very dry and routine. But the subject is not really that difficult (becuase most theories are not very involved compared to semiconductor field). If you want to be challenged, go for semiconductor physics books or even seminconductor Journals from IEEE, they are much more confusing than circuit books. Some concepts in semiconductor physics can take long time to understand (the math is much more involved than circuit books. One may have to learn the new math from ground up before to study semiconductor physics (e.g Quantum Mechanic). Cicuit math is just basic integration and basic math operation. The circuit math is tedous but not difficult. Any book has error. This book may have few errors but it is easy to follow. The exercises are challenging. One will spend whole day to solve few questions. Some questions cannot be solved (I was told by a Professor if I recalled correctly). If one spent time to read this book, they will be rewarded. If one found it difficult, then he may need to reconsider if he picked the right field (engineer). It is because this is good and clear book (compared to many books I read. Especially some books wrote by our professors. I was in one of top 5 EE program in US. Some books wrote by our professors were unreadable but he assigned it for his class. Those books should never be published.) One should know how to get answers by hand not by pspice only. Pspice is just a tool. Pspice cannot design circuits for you. If one knows the theory and know how to do the calculations by hand, he/she can learn pspice in a few days. Even one does not know pspice or spice at all, he knows circuits very well and can do by hand. I guarantee he will have a lot of offers. This is true for any subject, one should always know how to do it by hand. IMO, one should not use Maple, Mathcad unless he knows how to do calculus, matrix etc by hand. Otherwise, he does not learn much. He just learned how to 'pass' the class and it won't help in the interview or career. If one still find difficult, he/she may not fit engineering field. This book is just the beginning. There are more much difficult books coming later in the engineering courses. If you follow the advice above, you will be much happy in the long run.
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