This book is an up-to-date text on electronic circuit design. The subject is dealt with from an experimental point of view, but this has not restricted the author to well-known or simple circuits. Indeed, some very recent and quite advanced circuit ideas are put forward for experimental work. Each chapter takes up a particular type of circuit, and then leads the reader on to gain an understanding of how these circuits work by proposing experimental circuits for the reader to build and make measurements on. This is the first book to take such a practical approach to this level. The book will be useful to final year undergraduates and postgraduates in electronics, practising engineers, and workers in all fields where electronic instrumentation is used and there is a need to understand electronics and the interface between the instrument and the user's own experimental system. The book's references will also be a very helpful guide to the literature.

The theme of this new textbook is the practical element of electronic circuit design. Dr O'Dell, whilst recognising that theoretical knowledge is essential, has drawn from his many years of teaching experience to produce a book which emphasises learning by doing throughout. However, there is more to circuit design than a good theoretical foundation coupled to design itself. Where do new circuit ideas come from? This is the topic of the first chapter, and the discussion is maintained throughout the following eight chapters which deal with high and low frequency small signal circuits, opto-electronic circuits, digital circuits, oscillators, translinear circuits, and power amplifiers. In each chapter, one or more experimental circuits are described in detail for the reader to construct, a total of thirteen project exercises in all. The final chapter draws some conclusions about the fundamental problem of design in the light of the circuits that have been dealt with in the book. The book is intended for use alongside a foundation text on the theoretical basis of electronic circuit design. It is written not only for undergraduate students of electronic engineering but also for the far wider range of reader in the hard or soft sciences, in industry or in education, who have access to a simple electronics laboratory.

This book is an up-to-date text on electronic circuit design. The subject is dealt with from an experimental point of view, but this has not restricted the author to well-known or simple circuits. Indeed, some very recent and quite advanced circuit ideas are put forward for experimental work. Each chapter takes up a particular type of circuit, and then leads the reader on to gain an understanding of how these circuits work by proposing experimental circuits for the reader to build and make measurements on. This is the first book to take such a practical approach to this level. The book will be useful to final year undergraduates and postgraduates in electronics, practising engineers, and workers in all fields where electronic instrumentation is used and there is a need to understand electronics and the interface between the instrument and the user's own experimental system. The book's references will also be a very helpful guide to the literature.

Dieses Lehrbuch beschaftigt sich mit den praktischen Elementen des Entwurfs elektronischer Schaltungen. Es liefert dabei aber nicht bibliotheksartig eine Aufzahlung der verschiedenen Schaltungen, sondern behandelt systematische, grundsatzliche Uberlegungen, die zu einem gezielten Entwurf fuhren, der sich an den speziellen konkreten Anforderungen orientiert. Acht Kapitel befassen sich mit Hoch- und Niederfrequenzverstarkern im Kleinsignalbetrieb, optoelektronischen und digitalen Schaltungen, Oszillatoren, translinearen Schaltungen und Leistungsverstarkern. Anhand dieser ausgewahlten Schaltungsklassen wird der Entwurfsprozess beispielhaft erlautert. Ausgehend von Prinzipien wird der Weg bis zur vollstandigen Schaltung nachgezeichnet, wobei die Moglichkeiten der Kombination verschiedener Grundformen mit ihren Vor- und Nachteilen diskutiert werden. Das Buch wird somit zum Reisebegleiter auf dem Weg von den klassischen zu den modernen Schaltungstechniken der Elektronik. 13 detailliert beschriebene Versuchsschaltungen, die der Leser mit relativ einfachen Mitteln nachbauen kann, illustrieren den Text. Das Buch ist zum Selbststudium geeignet und wendet sich insbesondere an Studenten der Fachrichtungen Elektrotechnik, Physik und Informatik der Technischen Universitaten.