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发表于 2010-8-25 13:32:34
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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. |
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