Publisher's Synopsis
This second edition treats the scope of electronic today, encompassing both the fundamentals and the most recent tools available to designers. Reivsed, the text covers more complex circuits, custom ICs and the latest CAd tools being used in electronic circuit design.;The book offers comprehensive introductory chapters that provide a current overview of the field, provides increased emphasis on circuit modules as building blocks for complex systems, includes additional complete cirucits that are analyzed in step-by-step detail, extends the coverage of MOSFETs, CMOS and GaAs digital cirucits, features an innovative chapter on combined analog and digital circuits and high-frequency circuits, features new coverage of support software for computer-aided design and employs PSpice problems and applications to explore and understand modular circuits characterized by functional performance objectives.