Circuit Design: Know It All (Newnes Know It All) (Newnes Know It All) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Darren Ashby, Bonnie Baker, Ian Hickman, Walt Kester, Robert Pease, Tim Williams
Publisher: Newnes
Category: Book
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Media: Paperback
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Pages: 1248
Shipping Weight (lbs): 4.1
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.6 x 0.2
ISBN: 1856175278
Dewey Decimal Number: 621
EAN: 9781856175272
ASIN: 1856175278
Publication Date: August 28, 2008
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Product Description
The Newnes Know It All Series takes the best of what our authors have written to create hard-working desk references that will be an engineer's first port of call for key information, design techniques and rules of thumb. Guaranteed not to gather dust on a shelf!
Contents:
Chapter 1 The Fundamentals
Chapter 2 The Semiconductor diode
Chapter 3 Understanding diodes and their problems
Chapter 4 Bipolar transistors
Chapter 5 Field effect transistors
Chapter 6 Identifying and avoiding transistor problems
Chapter 7 Fundamentals
Chapter 8 Number Systems
Chapter 9 Binary Data Manipulation
Chapter 10 Combinational Logic Design
Chapter 11 Sequential Logic Design
Chapter 12 Memory
Chapter 13 Selecting a design route
Chapter 14 Designing with logic ICs
Chapter 15 Interfacing
Chapter 16 DSP and digital filters
Chapter 17 Dealing with high speed logic
Chapter 18 Bridging the Gap Between Analog and Digital
Chapter 19 Op Amps
Chapter 20 Converters-Analog Meets Digital
Chapter 21 Sensors
Chapter 22 Active filters
Chapter 23 Radio-Frequency (RF) Circuits
Chapter 24 Signal Sources
Chapter 25 EDA Design Tools for Analog and RF
Chapter 26 Useful Circuits
Chapter 27 Programmable Logic to ASICs
Chapter 28 Complex Programmable Logic Devices (CPLDs)
Chapter 29 Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs)
Chapter 30 Design Automation and Testing for FPGAs
Chapter 31 Integrating processors onto FPGAs
Chapter 32 Implementing digital filters in VHDL
Chapter 33 Overview
Chapter 34 Microcontroller Toolbox
Chapter 35 Overview
Chapter 36 Specifications
Chapter 37 Off the shelf versus roll your own
Chapter 38 Input and output parameters
Chapter 39 Batteries
Chapter 40 Layout and Grounding for Analog and Digital Circuits
Chapter 41 Safety
Chapter 42 Design for Production
Chapter 43 Testability
Chapter 44 Reliability
Chapter 45 Thermal Management
Appendix A Standards
A 360-degree view from our best-selling authors
Hot topics covered
The ultimate hard-working desk reference; all the essential information, techniques and tricks of the trade in one volume
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 This is a book I will actually use October 22, 2008
I spend a lot of time writing about technology, including books, magazine articles, and suchlike. (If you do a search on Amazon.com for "Clive Maxfield" you'll find a few of my humble offerings scattered around.)
This means that I tend to be a bit of a harsh critic when it comes to reading "stuff" written by other folks. One thing I hate is having a big pile of books and not being able to find the fact I'm looking for in any of them. By comparison, one thing I love is finding a single book that contains lots and lots of juicy information. Circuit Design Know It All falls into this latter category.
As for the other members of the Know-It-All series, the publisher has pulled together material from a group of well-known engineer-writers, each of whom have focused on the area of their expertise. Even in "Chapter 1: Fundamentals" I discovered reams of stuff I'd long-forgotten, and there are 43 chapters jam-packed with interesting subjects to peruse and ponder. Topics range from diodes and transistors, analog design, digital design, analog and digital layout, high-speed logic, operational amplifiers, sensors, filters, radio frequency (RF) circuits, programmable logic, microprocessors and microcontrollers, power supplies, batteries, safety, testability, reliability... the list goes on and on...
There are other books that go into more depth on each of these topics, but they tend to be "overkill" and wear me down unless I absolutely need to know information to that (excruciating) level of detail. Alternatively, there are a lot of books that attempt to cover a wide range of topics, but that cover them so "thinly" that they are all but useless. Circuit Design Know It All falls into the middle ground; the topics are covered at sufficient depth to be useful without descending into minutia that make my brains want to leak out of my ears.
When I'm writing, I have a select number of books that I keep on my desk for use as a quick reference. Circuit Design Know It All has just joined this pile.
A Very Good Refresher or Foundation for a Quick Study October 9, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you've done a lot of reading, or have an education in electronics then little here will be new, but that's not the point. Whenever I focus on any one topic, all the others grow a little stale, and this is the perfect book to freshen them back up.
It covers all of basic Electronics in enough detail to both satisfy and be useful, and despite multiple subjects written by multiple authors, the book hangs together tightly. It absolutely didn't have much sense of an anthology where it is obvious that chapters were written in different eras, and from the looks of it, in different languages. Newness Circuit Design is NOT that book.
Yet Circuit Design is an anthology. I don't have any idea of how they put it together so it flows from chapter to chapter as if written by a single person at a single sitting, albeit deathly long. Newness either edited multiple chapters from previous works so tightly that they seamlessly join together, or this is the first book I've read of bare editorial genius. If not a word has been changed from the originals, then the editor who picked each piece to meld with the one before and after is flatly amazing, an editor the likes of which I've never seen nor even imagined.
In short, Newness Circuit Design is a great single book that covers vast stretches of Electronics knowledge in a highly readable way, deep enough that I was sated after each chapter, yet not so deep as to pull me under 200 meters of details without air. After safely returning to the surface on occasion, I always know where to go to find the hard math beneath the covered topic, if I feel the need. I assume a Quick-Study beginner would be able to find them easily as well.
--Tony
 Not to be trusted September 6, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
In the first 19 pages of Chapter 1 I found 4 typographical errors that would be very misleading to those not schooled in electronics. How many more will appear in later chapters that are not as obvious? I would stay away from this book!
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