The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design

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The book's initial chapters present various methods for learning how to
do analog design. Jim Williams describes the most efficient educational
mechanism he has encountered in "The Importance of Fixing." A pair of
chapters from Barry Harvey emphasize the importance of realistic experience
and just how to train analog designers. Keitaro Sekine looks at
where future Japanese analog designers will come from. He has particularly
pungent commentary on the effects of "computer-based" design on
today's students. Similar concerns come from Stanford University professor
Greg Kovacs, who adds colorfiil descriptions of the nature of analog
design and its practitioners. Finally, Nobel prize-winning physicist
Richard P. Feynman's 1974 Cal Tech commencement address is presented.
Although Feynman wasn't an analog circuit designer, his observations
are exceptionally

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Go to It!
Engineers are needed, now more than ever. We old-timers are wearing out
one by one. Yet I have mixed feelings about encouraging young engineers
these days. Our paychecks don't reflect our contribution toward the incredible
improvement in our standard of living that has been achieved in
the last century. And we seem to get blamed for everything that goes
wrong, and indeed for everything we haven't been able to fix yet. The
best I can offer is the satisfaction of knowing that you have accomplished
something worth doing, and that's worth more than money.
Analog is not a curiosity. It is out there, both on its own and helping
computers interface to the real world. I hope I have helped you in some
small way in our small corner of the profession. Returning to the question
posed by the title of this chapter, if I have presented my case well, you
know the answer is ALL OF THE ABOVE. Use any tool available to you.
Touch a computer if you have to; just wear rubber gloves (mentally, at
least). And don't forget, HAVE FUN!

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Newnes is an imprint of Butterworth-Heinemann.

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1。Learning Now
2.  Making it work
3.  selling it
4.  Guidance and Commentary

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JIM WILLIAMS
is the editor-in-chief of this second volume on analog
circuit design. As with the first volume, Jim developed the basic concept
of the book, identified, contacted, and cajoled potential contributors, and
edited the contributions. Jim was at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
from 1968 to 1979, concentrating exclusively on analog circuit
design. His teaching and research interests involved application of analog
circuit techniques to biochemical and biomedical problems. Concurrently,
he consulted U.S. and foreign concerns and governments, specializing
in analog circuits. In 1979, he moved to National Semiconductor
Corporation, continuing his work in the analog area with the Linear Integrated
Circuits Group. In 1982 he joined Linear Technology Corporation
as staff scientist, where he is presently employed. Interests include product
definition, development, and support. Jim has authored over 250 publications
relating to analog circuit design. He received the 1992 Innovator
of the Year Award from EDN Magazine for work in high-speed circuits.
His spare time interests include sports cars, collecting antique scientific
instruments, art, and restoring and using old

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ART DELAGRANGE,
when he was young, took his electric train apart and
reassembled it by himself. Since that day, it has not run. He attended
MIT, where he studied digital circuitry, receiving a BS/MS in electrical
engineering in 1961/62. During his graduate year he worked on a hybrid
digital/analog computer. It did not revolutionize the industry. Beginning
as a co-op student, he worked for 33 years for the Naval Surface Warfare
Center in Silver Spring, Maryland. Among his other achievements are a
PhD in electrical engineering from the University of Maryland, ten
patents, and 23 articles in the open literature. Retired from the government,
he works for Applied Technology and Research in Burtonsville,
Maryland. Art lives in Mt. Airy,

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GREGORY T.A. KOVACS ,
received a BASc degree in electrical engineering
from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, British Columbia,
in 1984; an MS degree in bioengineering from the University of California,
Berkeley, in 1985; a PhD degree in electrical engineering from
Stanford University in 1990; and an MD degree from Stanford University
in 1992. His industry experience includes the design of a wide variety of
analog and mixed-signal circuits for industrial and commercial applications,
patent law consulting, and the co-founding of three electronics
companies. In 1991, he joined Stanford University as Assistant Professor
of Electronic Engineering, where he teaches analog circuit design and
micromachined transducer technologies. He holds the Robert N. Noyce
Family Faculty Scholar Chair, received an NSF Young Investigator
Award in 1993, and was appointed a Terman Fellow in 1994. His present
research areas include neural/electronic interfaces,

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KEITARO SEKINE ,
received his BE, ME, and Dr. Eng. degrees in electronics
from Waseda University in 1960,1962, and 1968, respectively. Since
1969, he has been with the Faculty of Science and Technology, Science
University of Tokyo, where he is now a professor in the Department of
Electrical Engineering. His main research interests are in analog integrated
circuits and their application systems. His interests in the physical
aspects of analog circuits, such as implementation, mutual electro-magnetic
couple within the circuits, and EMC, originated from the experiments
at his own amateur radio station, which he has had since 1957. He
has been chair of the Committee for Investigative Research and Committee
on Analog Circuit Design Technologies at the Institute of Electrical
Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) and also a member of the Editorial Committee
for the Transactions of IEICE Section J-C. He is now president of the
Society for Electronics, Information, and System at the IEEJ, as well as a
member of the Board of Directors at the Japan Institute

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介绍完了，这是一本好书！