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Great book. Must for any one working on ADCs and DACs.

One of the few books in the data converter field. I used this book when I took an advance course on analog circuit design and found this book to be very usefool. This book contain a good amount of information on data converter and cover almost every important areas - i.e specification, testing, High-speed/high accuracy architecture, sample and hold circuit, compartors, noise shaping coding, voltage and current reference sources and also contain a chapter on sigma-delta converters that can lead to more advanced study for IEEE books on oversampled data converters. If you are an analog circuit designer or want to be an analog circuit designer this book will be a good reference for data converter circuit.

This book brings together the analog and digital domains in a light-hearted and readable way. The author focuses on issues that come up in design instead of delving too deeply into theory. Very good job.

Anyone who works in electronics outside of the RF field knows that analog circuitry is being eclipsed by digital. However, analog is not truly dead, and will never be. Baker shows that many digital systems can benefit from judiciously-applied analog circuitry. New engineers would also benefit from the many case studies that the author discusses, such as the tradeoffs associated with using a particular kind of A/D for a specific application. This book bridges the analog and digital worlds, and gives the reader a foundation for delving into more specific knowledge that may be needed, such as in/op-amps, or DSP. However, much of this material will be known to engineers that have been in the EE field for some years, so the book is really aimed at students who will soon graduate, and engineers that just got their first design job.

Very easy to understand and follow the concepts. Applies to electronic circuits and systems from elemental to complex. Has problems worked out and problems to solve. Could be a great textbook for teaching calculus concepts to electronic students - technicians or engineers.

This book provides an excellent introduction to the mathematics electronic students need to master. The author uses problems in electronics to illuminate the concepts and techniques of calculus and more advanced mathematics such as Fourier and Laplacian analysis. This is an ideal book for students in an electronics technology program, and would even be of help to a engineering student in need of an intuitive introduction to calculus.

I became a self-taught electrical engineer partly due to this textbook. Later went to Univ of Buffalo, and took two of Dr. Wobschall's classes. Good guy; good book. Too bad both are semi-retired now.

I would not suggest taking one of Wobschall's exams without reading this book. Especially helpful for Wobshall's open-book exams.

This is a very useful book to help focus on how to develop high performance designs. It is a little dated on the technologies covered but gets the job done. One thing to remember is that microprocessor development methods usually will become ASIC development methods after a number of years and related EDA tool development.

Whether trying to maximize the speed of a standard cell ASIC processor design or minimize the design time of a full custom processor this book describes, in detail, the considerations involved. The authors draw on real-world designs and extensively review several in particular. The book describes the impact on resulting processor performance of pipeline depth, clock tree design, register and latch choice, setup and clock-to-q times, slack passing, dynamic logic, logic design style, richness of standard cell library, wire and transistor sizing, floorplanning and other layout concerns, and the exploitation of process variation.

This book focuses strictly on processor circuit design and does not discuss software design, instruction set architecture, or die size and power issues.

I took some undergrad electronics courses and used one of those 50lb textbooks with fancy pictures and tons of problems at the end of each chapter. After a year of taking undergraduate electronics and doing all those problems, I still found transistors mysterious and scary. Then I was introduced to this rather small, light textbook in a graduate electronics class and boy am I glad I got my hands on this thing. After reading the first chapter, I was enlightened beyond belief. I have to admit that the math is intense (mostly Bessel functions and stuff) but the analysis is very general and very rigorous with the assumptions and simplifications clearly spelled out before any analysis. I can go on and on about what a great book this is but I will only say that if you're looking for a rigorous mathematical treatment of non-linear devices then this book is for you. If, on the other hand, infinite summations of Bessel functions scare you then stay away and stick with one of those kiddie undergrad electronics textbooks like Microelectronic Circuits by Sedra and Smith which is packed with lots of useless, redundant stuff and enjoy throwing your back out everytime you have to bring that thing to school/work.

This was the text that i used in my university courses in Peru.

It was absolutely important in my education and is nowadays a excelent book to check problems engaged with small signal!.

Independent Component Analysis is a young and interesting topic that gained attention and still receiving more of it.

Until now this is the best introduction that has been written.
It is comprehensive, clear and unbiased.

I think that the book is a step toward making the subject not only a common field of research but also a reference for those looking for new challenging topics.

What worths mentioning is that the authors are very envolved in the development of the theory of ICA ,other books are good but are deviated by their author's own approachs and this is normal but unhealthy for a first book on any field.

What constitutes a great help for understanding ICA are the relatively easy concepts if one just intend to pick an algorithm(ex:FastICA), but this is not the case regarding its theory.

One colleague once argued that ICA should have emerged long before the begining of the 90's, claiming that Gaussian forms
(Central Limit-Theorem) killed the idea of dealing with other kinds of distributions and therefore the signal processing community went assuming every thing was gaussian (noise was gaussian,signals are gaussian),but the emerge of HOS relaxed the gaussian restriction and ICA became possible and no longer 'blind' .

I think this should prepare researchers to deal with coming challengs more intelligently and efficiently .That is why I recommend this book since it tries to give a broad view to the subject .

This is a nice and self-contained book on the subject of independent component analysis (ICA). The authors start with relevant mathematical and statistical background (in Part I) to prepare readers for the derivations of ICA (though seasoned researchers may want to skip the first part of this book). The authors discuss the motivation behind ICA and present several ways to derive ICA (since this subject has been approached by several communities). The authors also compare and discuss the pros and cons of these approaches. The authors discuss several applications using ICA in Part III.

Compared with other ICA books, this manuscript has much depth and completeness. I highly recommend this book to any reader interested in this topic.

I bought my copy over 20 years ago and it remains my favorite
book on this topic. Why? Completeness and clarity of
presentation. Not to mention that it is generally well-
written. I have other, more recent books in this area, but
if we ever have to evacuate this building in a hurry, Vlach
and Singhal is the one I'd grab on the way out the door.

I used this book in Graduate course. I found it very useful. It covers most of the theoritical and graph techniques for circuits and network analysis. All the methods are discribed in a clear way along with examples and problems. This is good for upper level undergraduate courses and a "must" for graduate students. This is the Text you are looking for, to use for your courses and for Ph.D. comprehensive exams. I'll keep it with me until I retire...

In 1997, the Electronic Frontier Foundation announced an experiment. On a budget of $200,000, they blew the roof off of something that had long been suspected: the long-time United States Data Encryption Standard was not secure.

This is something that had been suspected for some time. The original Lucifer encrypt that it had been based on had been designed by IBM with a 64-bit keyspace (quite large for the late 70s), but had been reduced to 56 bits, reducing the number of possible keys by two orders of magnitude. It was widely suspected that this was due to the NSA's desire that there not be a standard in the public domain that they couldn't crack; indeed, DES was slowly obsoleted over the years by ciphers like RSA and PGP. In 1997, it was announced that the EFF had created, using an array of custom chips, a relatively inexpensive system that was capable of a brute-force attack on DES, and came to the conclusion that such systems were probably already in the posession of not only the NSA (the largest purchaser of computing power in the world) but also numerous corporate and governmental entities that could afford to pay substantially less than the EFF paid for a technology that was likely not only available on the QT but quite mature.

This book comes with everything needed to build a DES cracker -- operational notes, history, and even the VHDL code needed to build the custom chips and C code to control the chip array. This makes it of interest not only to cryptography researchers (who probably consider this book old news after seven years) but to those learning about hardware and embedded systems development; the extensive listings make for good study material.

It's a worthwhile book to buy for anyone interested in privacy and cryptography concerns, though for the layperson Simon Singh's Code Book is probably a more general introduction to the issues involved.

This is a "killer book" in every respect.

The authors have done a tremendous service to the entire population of the World by exposing the vulnerability of the DES algorithm. The DES algorithm is the formula for encrypting your bank account and keeping other secrets safe.

DES has become unless and the authors have taken more than a little risk to inform you including absolute, undeniable proof in the form of "showing you how", down to the last detail.

The books not only gives detailed plans and references but also the correct current political motivation behind the desire to retain the DES and how it affects you.

Details of how government "politicking" of your civil rights and how those rights are being "watered down" for the benefit of the intelligence community is explained, too.

I don't personally plan on spending $200,000 or so to build a "engine for cracking DES", but I do believe that the money spent for this book was one of the better investments I have made. The books contents have been placed into the public domain by the authors. Tell a friend.

Bravo, guys!

Dr. Nemiro has raised the standard on books on virtual creativity. Her expansive and detailed rendering of the subject should help this book find its way to a number of re-issues. As a magazine editor who works with writers from all over the continent, I can appreciate the comparison of differing virtual models. I only wish that I had had Dr. Nemiro's book a decade earlier before I began my career in publishing. Regardless, I am grateful for this book - for the precision work of a fine mind.

Working in the film business and having been a member of virtual teams in the past, this book has helped me understand why some teams have worked while others haven't. In particular, I enjoyed the section on climate and interpersonal communication and bonding. With the future promising increased use of distance collaboration, this will be my reference for being part of a healthy, productive team. I highly recommend this book.