published March 2007
ANALOG SEEKrets (DC to daylight) is a text book for senior under-graduate electronics designers and final-year physics students taking an electronics option. It will also be useful to recent graduates who seek increased skill in the field of electronics design. Even seasoned "digital engineers" will benefit from the analog insights presented in this book
To really find out what is in the book, take a look at both the contents and the index, PDF versions of which are linked below.
Introduction (and explanation of SEEKrets)
Do you know when and where to use cheaper components in a design?
Do you know how to make accurate measurements of electronic quantities such as voltage, current and resistance?
Are you uncertain about how to tolerance your designs?
Do you know which capacitor dielectrics to avoid in your application?
Do you know how to find intermittent faults in digital circuits which only occur now and then?
Do you know why AC measurement uncertainty is greater than the measurement uncertainty of the measuring device?
... perhaps there is more you should know!
Did you spot the Appendix titles, answering specific questions in detail? Perhaps you missed the Encyclopaedic Glossary, 89 pages long. Rather than giving a one-line description of a term the Encyclopaedic Glossary dives in and gives you the necessary background and detail.
specification: Paperback with "perfect binding", size 234 mm x 156 mm (Metric Royal Quarto), >570 pages, >50 tables, >65 drawings, >70 graphs, >200 circuit snips. Weight 0.92 kg approx. ISBN 978-0-9555064-0-6
This textbook has been written by a practicing electronics designer for the following specific groups:
1. Final year or Masters students in Electronic Engineering and related subjects.
2. Final year Physics students taking an Electronics option.
3. Junior design engineers with a thirst for knowledge.
4. Practicing electronics designers who seek a broader in-depth skill set.
This is a very practical textbook. Noise reduction is a typical problem for any project containing analog electronics. The ability to solve noise problems marks the key difference between a beginner and a seasoned professional. You cannot solve noise problems by just using packaged wisdom such “use a single point ground”. There are real physical principles and techniques involved that need to be understood in order to be successfully applied. These principles and techniques are explained in depth within this book.
ELECTRONICS DESIGNERS deserve to be taught by ELECTRONICS DESIGNERS.
About the Author: Having spend a few years designing the signal conditioning circuitry for state of the art 7½ digit premium DMMs at Datron Instruments, he gained considerable insight and expertise in the precision measurement of voltage, current and resistance. This is the “DC end” of the spectrum, the maximum bandwidth of the true-RMS converters being a mere 1 MHz. Moving on from this he designed digital storage oscilloscope front ends for Gould Instruments, starting on a modest 20 MHz scope and working his way up to 500 MHz scopes. During this period he also designed various high-CMRR active differential probes, a mains harmonic suppression generator, and an impulse generator rated at 100,000 V and 30,000 A. The load resistor was rated for >10,000,000 W transients! Due to large corporate buyouts he was also designing 0.1% accurate digital storage oscilloscopes for Nicolet Technologies during the same period.
Up to present time, he is now designing mm-wave/THz imaging systems for security applications. The only information we could drag out of him was that he occasionally works on microvolt sensitivity sub-kilohertz amplifiers on the same day as he is designing imaging systems and components running really really fast. (Above 100 GHz is the closest we could tie him down to!)
The author has a long history of writing articles for the commercial technical press, which assures readability to the intended audience.
List of the author's published work
Current technical journals are so specialised, and so technically complicated, that they can be all but impossible for the newcomer to understand. In some cases you may have to go back 50 years or more in order to get technical papers that are intelligible, even to degree qualified engineers. In this case, ANALOG SEEKrets can give you a kick-start to help you get going in a particular direction.
ANALOG SEEKrets provides a wealth and breadth of electronics design and measurement knowledge, much of which you will never have seen published before. Since it costs less than two hours work time, information from just one page should more than pay for the whole book.
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ANSWERS SECTION
These links to PDF documents give answers to all questions in the book, apart from those where the answer is already given in the text. These answers form part of the package that you buy with the book; as such they are copyrighted and password protected. The password is given in the preface of the book.
Publisher: Future Science Research Press, High Street, Didcot, Oxfordshire, UK.