Art of Electronics, 3rd edition ?

Einstein said that 'we should not commit to memory anything that we can look up in a book or table, as it clutters the mind.'

So keep them all in electronic, searchable format and stop crying about the length of the tooth.

PHEMTs rock.

More real-life diode behavior stuff.

FPGAs.

More consideration of thermal issues and materials.

John

I have a few that I bought on spec. I'll have a whack at building something out of them--maybe a FET probe.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Nah, I love Zverev.

I have that one too, but Van der Ziel has this amazing way of teaching all about device noise and fundamental noise sources that really makes sense.

So, how about uncorking some good ones from 6 or 7 or 20 years ago? Most of your NDAs must have expired by now.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

S.E.D. is alive and well, with or without you.

Tables, tables and more tables ;-)

Should I get a copy of van der Ziel? I'm always pressed to squeeze a little lower NF out of some crappy process :-(

I could do that. I did once before... poor reception... way over the dweebs' heads. But I'll try. ...Jim Thompson

Van der Ziel wrote several books, starting in the 1950s. The one I have is (I think) his last--"Noise in Solid State Devices and Circuits" (Wiley, 1986). It's a great book, and focuses on the right thing--how to calculate noise in circuits from first principles. It has things like the dependence of BJT shot noise on high level injection, low and high frequency noise of tunnel diodes, various kinds of FETs noise in diode mixers, and a lot on 1/f noise.

I'd like to see some more of your stuff--I still want you to write a book, remember--and the Tappet Brothers' "Stump the Chumps" is the best part of the show. (Of course the joke is on them.) ;)

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

OK. You've got it. Just did a final design/layout review for a chip last Tuesday, so I have a slight breather. I'll look thru my archives for "teasers" ;-)

(After I install a dishwasher tomorrow :-(

You mean Click 'n' Clack",

They're MIT grads also. My daughter, the water chemist, is one of their best fans ;-) ...Jim Thompson

Late at night, by candle light, Dirk Bruere at NeoPax penned this immortal opus:

It's out of print, and the second hand market doesn't generate revenue for the author. So there's no loss if it's digitized and distributed.

- YD.

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Then maybe H/H should consider Lulu.

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have a look.

Tom and Ray Magliozzi. They did voices in the "Cars" movie, too.