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This book is an undergraduate level textbook presenting a thorough discussion of state-of-the art
electronic devices. It is self-contained; it begins with an introduction to solid state semiconductor
devices. The prerequisites for this text are first year calculus and physics, and a two-semester
course in circuit analysis including the fundamental theorems and the Laplace transformation. No
previous knowledge of MATLAB®is required; the material in Appendix A and the inexpensive
MATLAB Student Version is all the reader need to get going. Our discussions are based on a PC
with Windows XP platforms but if you have another platform such as Macintosh, please refer to
the appropriate sections of the MATLAB’s User Guide which also contains instructions for
installation. Additional information including purchasing may be obtained from The MathWorks,
Inc., 3 Apple Hill Drive, Natick, MA 01760-2098. Phone: 508 647-7000, Fax: 508 647-7001, email:
info@mathwork.com and web site http://www.mathworks.com.This text can also be used
without MATLAB.
This is our fourth electrical and computer engineering-based text with MATLAB applications.
My associates, contributors, and I have a mission to produce substance and yet inexpensive texts
for the average reader. Our first three texts* are very popular with students and working
professionals seeking to enhance their knowledge and prepare for the professional engineering
examination. We are working with limited resources and our small profits left after large discounts
to the bookstores and distributors, are reinvested in the production of more texts. To maintain
our retail prices as low as possible, we avoid expensive and fancy hardcovers.
The author and contributors make no claim to originality of content or of treatment, but have
taken care to present definitions, statements of physical laws, theorems, and problems. |
