Linear Circuit Transfer Functions: An Introduction to Fast Analytical Techniques (IEEE Press)

I have recently completed "Linear Circuit Transfer Functions" book by Christophe Basso.I came across it after watching Dr. Middlebrook's Technical Therapy for Analog Circuit Designers course.In a simple and systematic manner, the book presents a way to deal with deriving low entropy expressions for various transfer functions for up to n-th order circuits. It utilizes both GTF and EET, 2-EET and n-EET, which combined makes an excellent toolset for an engineer.I really loved the fact that the book contains reasonable amount of exercise problems (10 per chapter) and they are fully explained which lets you double-check yourself.Great book.

If you want to learn how to apply FAST to quickly obtain transfer functions in their low entropy form – this is the book for you. It does the job well.

This is a interesting book on how to calculate transfer functions for networks in a more systematic way without all the tedious algebra. There are a lot of examples with all the answers and tips how to double check your results using SPICE and Mathcad. I found the book interesting and useful for to my professional as an electrical engineer.I recommend this book to practicing electrical engineers who work on analog circuits analyzing network transfer functions.

I have just finished reading "Linear Circuit Transfer Functions" by Christophe Basso. Years ago I also took Dr.Middlebrook's Design-Oriented Analysis course. Being an analog design engineer myself but not power electronics designer, I find Mr. Basso's book very useful in dealing with everyday's problems and circuits encountered in analog design. It gives the tools of quickly finding the transfer functions in s-domain, as well as techniques of simulating and verifying the results. Christophe Basso in his book provides good review of analysis techniques initially proposed by Dr.Middlebrook as well as additions to them by Caltech's prof.Ali Hajimiri. There are many problems both in the chapters and end of chapters exercises which are fully explained. Explanations throughout the book are clear and in many cases fun to read. Those, familiar with the topic of analyzing circuits in s-domain know that solving transfer functions of higher order circuits can be very tedious and labor-intensive job. The techniques described in the book render that to finding driving point resistances and DC transfer functions under several conditions for the capacitances or/and inductances in the circuit. Or to finding two types of driving point resistances if Middlebrook's method is applied.

When I was in university, I hated finding transfer function of 2nd or 3rd order systems because the amount of terms that you needed to deal with could span a few lines. Assuming you didn't make any algebra mistakes, you were then left with an expression that told explained the system ONLY if its in a standard form, which is more algebra and some of it is not always obvious.This book changes that. It really changes that. The book builds up to the main concept covered in Chapter 3, which is the Extra Element Theorem. It uses some clever tricks that put the expression into a simple state where you can visually identify key elements, such as gain, zeros and poles.Chapter 4 is how to apply the Extra Element Theorem twice (ie. handle 2nd order systems) and Chapter 5 is how to apply it for nth order systems.The problems are worked out thoroughly, and if something was not clear, I emailed the author and he responded with additional information.