Microelectronic Circuit Design, 5th Edition

This is a horrible electronics textbook. Variables are introduced all over that are not properly explained. If you want to actually learn something, you do not want to use this book. Trying to do homework problems using this book is a nightmare. Overall a terrible book.

Book was of good quality, I just personally didn't find it very useful for the class I needed it for aside from doing homework problems in it.

Is the textbook i needed. Nuff said.

Ok condition

This book grew on me over time. What I like most about it is that it presents a great wealth of circuit designs both in the text and in the problem sets at the end of each chapter.It's not exactly for beginners and sometimes I think it would have been better served if it had less math in favor of explanations and current flow diagrams (curent path lines over a schematic).But the more I electeonics learn from whatever source, upon returning to this book, I invariably find new "treasures" that I wasn't ready for earlier or simply overlooked.The op amp chapters where it starts from simple op amps and ends up in detailed analysis of the stages of the uA741 op amp on a transistor level is really great.The transistor chapters are also well arranged - there's a chapter dedicated to single transistor designs, and only in later chapters designs with multiple transistors are introduced (all the way to Op Amp internals and beyond).

To give you an idea of my perspective:I have a BS in General Physics, working towards a BS in Electrical Engineering. I have taken many, many classes and read many, many textbooks. Texts about both physics and circuits and other misc subjects. I have done very well for myself and I can tell you from these experiences that this has been the worst text book I have read thus far. However, it is not all bad and I will list what I think are the pros and what are the cons. Also note this is the only book I have encountered on microelectronic circuit design.Pro:1. Very in depth. Convers a lot of material for one book.2. Has many problems and provides a selected solution pdf on its website. (just the answer though)3. Has many exercises and examples throughout each chapter.Cons:1. May be in depth, but a lot of times crucial steps are skipped, especially ones that use assumptions which are not explained well.2. A lot of times, the book will begin a calculation without providing a good reason as to why. What I mean here, is changing direction for no particular reason. There might be a reason, but it isn't always clear.3. Exercises are really simple compared to the actual chapter problems and only help to immediately high light the topic just covered. The examples are useful, not much complaining there.4. Badly placed mistypes. For example, using the wrong variables in equations.These cons are what really break the book for me: The most important thing about a text book is the ability to practice on your own and check your work. These cons fall under this description.5. The selected solution pdf often does not include problems that highlight a certain topic. You will occasionally run into a type of problem that you cannot practice because it doesn't have a self check along with it. Topics that are not covered by exercises and examples.6. The most crucial con. The book is inconsistent with assumptions. I understand this book is on design, but our university uses it to teach the principles. Unfortunately there was many mismatches about which assumptions to use, between the chapters text, instructors teaching, the problems, the examples, the connect assignments, ect. Every now and then you might find a single sentence that states which assumptions it would use, but they were hard to find or nonexistence ( I looked for them). It was often that I could not get a correct answer due to the book using weird assumptions (weird as in they never showed it!). Sure it is close enough for design purposes (which is something the book harps on) but if you are learning the material initially, then this is horrible. It really sowed the seed of doubt when trying to apply learned concepts. Also, because the connect assignments use tolerances, assumptions can make or break a right answer, even though its in the ball park.Summary:The book looks like it would be useful for reference later on. However, for introduction to the materials, not a good text book. You will have trouble practicing the material and will often doubt your success because the book routinely uses different assumptions throughout problems, in which assumptions play a crucial role in just about everything.

Wow what an awful textbook! Follows the typical format of having little to no examples, and then 20+ homework problems with no solutions given in back of book. Like another reviewer said, you will not learn anything with this book! It turns out, all the tutorials on how to solve problems are in the instructor's slides which are conveniently not available for students. For such a lack of content, it's impressive how heavy and thick this book is; it's as thick as my physics textbook which covered a whole range of topics. This book (and the instructor's slides) were also filled with mistakes which is completely unacceptable for a book at this price point. At this point, I think I would get more value out of this book by using it as a door holder.

Our professor has had this book for one and a half semester and the homework in it is garbage and is more often wrong than right(thanks mcgraw hill for wasting our time) and the support has been very lack luster for him. Overall this is the worst text book I have ever had, it has no explanation and the homework more often than not uses un given information in the problem to solve it. Seriously a money grab for how much work they put into it.

Perfect. A must for any electronic engineer.