Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits

by Anant Agarwal, Jeffrey Lang

Unlike books currently on the market, this book attempts to satisfy two goals: combine circuits and electronics into a single, unified treatment, and establish a strong connection with the contemporary world of digital systems. It will introduce a new way of looking not only at the treatment of circuits, but also at the treatment of introductory coursework in engineering in general.
Using the concept of ''abstraction,'' the book attempts to form a bridge between the world of physics and the world of large computer systems. In particular, it attempts to unify electrical engineering and computer science as the art of creating and exploiting successive abstractions to manage the complexity of building useful electrical systems. Computer systems are simply one type of electrical systems.

Genres: Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Reference, Nonfiction, Textbooks, Technical, Physics

1008 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2005

Reviews

[Chris · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is an excellent, excellent textbook. The integration of analog and digital theory from the very beginning is outstanding.

I held back from giving it 5 stars because there's a lot of content that is web-only.... I'd rather have it all in one place and offline.

[Anatol · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked this book, yet sometimes some topics were explained in rather complicated way. Strongly recommend it together with a three parts course on electronics in from MIT (they’re presented on the edx website), that was made by the author of this book and that guideline through the contents of the book with deeper comprehension than just reading alone.

[Nivas · Rating 3 out of 5]

3rd year textbook on electronics

[Salim Elzwawi · Rating 3 out of 5]

I have read many introductory electronics books over the years and have also taught electronics for a few years. I think this book is the most overrated of these books. It is a good book, but it isn't an excellent book.

[Terry Pilling · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not nearly enough practice problems for classroom use.

[Aaron · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good textbook. Wish the notation for source types wasn't so confusing. Va/vA/VA/va -> like cmon.

[Pedro Guilherme · Rating 4 out of 5]

I find this book really amazing. The way that the author explains is so clear, and the book covers a lot of things in the area of circuit design.