The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design (EDN Series for Design Engineers)

As the second of Jim Williams' compilations, this book once again offers superb insight to aspiring analog circuit designers and working pros alike. There's nothing like high quality war stories from the top pros in the trenches to help give you a proper sense for how those pros operate. Most of this is quite inspiring. Inspiration is a priceless commodity that is rarely provided in decent doses in so-called 'professional education' nowadays. Instead, most EE textbooks would put even a dedicated enthusiast to sleep. Not so this book. This book is the real deal. It impresses me even more when the other contributors, other than Jim Williams, can also provide top notch stories. I especially liked the story about the 'Ticking Box' by Lloyd Brown. The stories really vary a lot, and salted throughout are valuable lessons of every sort learned by practicing engineers on the job; most of these valuable lessons you WILL NOT find in EE textbooks. Jim Williams may well be the greatest legend ever to walk the halls of an analog electronics lab, but when he reaches out to a healthy collection of the other top minds in the field and gets them to contribute works of this quality, and brings it all together in a volume like this, you just have to admit that a major donation has been made to the industry. The diversity of viewpoints presented, and the breadth and depth of each of those viewpoints will move your mind around and help you see problems from more useful angles. But the most important lesson perhaps, the meta lesson as it were, is that only inspired people make the major contributions in any field. Only inspired people have the love of the field and the long-term bloodhound seeking that eventually grants them major success. You have to feed yourself with inspiration. When you read a book like this, the enthusiast in you, the little kid with wide eyes of wonder can come out and enjoy the love of electronics again. What's better than that?

As a practicing analog engineer for over 30 years, I found this book a pleasure to read and study from. I wish that I had the chance to do so much earlier in my career and would strongly recommend it to anyone who is seeking to expand his/her knowledge in the analog circuit design domain. Because this book deals primarily with fundamental principles of electronics circuit designs, it is largely timeless. The combined wisdom of many important contributors yields many valuable insights and make this book a great value to just about any electronics engineer and technician.

If you are searching for some circuits you can rip-off you will be disappointed.This is a book which covers more the "philosophical" aspects of electronics.If you want to get good at it, this book is a must.You will not read this book quickly... one chapter per weekend, because some of the articlesare rather complex, others are philosophical, interesting and educational.I do not care about Jim Williams contempt for digital electronics and software however.In fact he and Robert Pease are very wrong in this regards. Furthermore, you will neverbecome brilliant if you are narrow minded.But when it comes to analog design, Jim Williams was certainly one of the greatest (and most arrogant).

I have read some reviews in which the reader was disappointed with the book but I think they misunderstood the title. The book delves more on the methods of teaching and applying tried and true engineering, particularly for 'green' engineers just out of school. As pointed out in the book, academia does not teach real world engineering, therefore new engineers should be put through an apprenticeship under the guidance of senior engineers before being cut loose. This was not intended as a collection of design notes or how to design actual circuitry, that can be found elsewhere in other publications.

This is the definitive insider's guide to the mind of analog designers! Great fun, great reading.

Very good compilation of information for the layman electronics technician. Plenty of wisdom passed around by these accomplished authors. Worth having in the collection.

I've been an analog circuit designer for forty years. Jim's book provides great historical information and a lot of circuit design information. Definitely a "must read" for someone that wants to learn more about electronics and has a desire to be a knowledgeable design engineer. I really don't understand the smug response from the two-star reviewers. Buy it, you'll like it.

Great book with some very interesting stories written by well known circuit designers

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