Preface xvii -- About the Author xix -- 1 From the Bottom Up: Voltages, Currents, and Electrical Components 1 -- 1.1 An Introduction to Electric Charges and Atoms 1 -- 1.2 Electric DC Voltage and Current Sources 3 -- 1.3 Electric Components: Resistors, Inductors, and Capacitors 12 -- 1.4 Ohm's Law, Power Delivered and Power Consumed 25 -- 1.5 Capacitors 33 -- 1.6 Inductors 44 -- 1.7 Kirchhoff's Voltage Law (KVL) and Kirchhoff's Current Law (KCL) 73 -- 1.8 Summary 87 -- 2 Alternating Current Circuits 98 -- 2.1 AC Voltage and Current Sources, Root Mean Square Values (RMS), and Power 98 -- 2.2 Sinusoidal Steady State: Time and Frequency Domains 111 -- 2.3 Time Domain Equations: Frequency Domain Impedance and Phasors 123 -- 2.4 Power in AC Circuits 136 -- 2.5 Dependent Voltage and Current Sources 145 -- 2.6 Summary of Key Points 149 -- 3 Circuit Theorems and Methods of Circuit Analysis 155 -- 3.1 Introduction 155 -- 3.2 The Superposition Method 156 -- 3.3 The Thévenin Method 165 -- 3.4 Norton's Method 172 -- 3.5 The Mesh Method of Analysis 179 -- 3.6 The Nodal Method of Analysis 199 -- 3.7 Which One Is the Best Method? 210 -- 3.8 Using all the Methods 213 -- 3.9 Summary and Conclusions 225 -- 4 First- and Second-Order Circuits under Sinusoidal and Step Excitations 233 -- 4.1 Introduction 233 -- 4.2 The First-Order RC Low-Pass Filter (LPF) 235 -- 4.3 The First-Order RC High-Pass Filter (HPF) 252 -- 4.4 Second-Order Circuits 265 -- 4.5 Series RLC Second-Order Circuit 266 -- 4.6 Second-Order Circuit in Sinusoidal Steady State: Bode Plots 275 -- 4.7 Drawing the Second-Order Bode Plots Using Asymptotic Approximations 278 -- 4.8 Summary 279 -- 5 The Operational Amplifi er as a Circuit Element 287 -- 5.1 Introduction to the Operational Amplifier 287 -- 5.2 Ideal and Real Op Amps 288 -- 5.3 Brief Defi nition of Linear Amplifiers 290 -- 5.4 Linear Applications of Op Amps 294 -- 5.5 Op Amps Nonlinear Applications 331 -- 5.6 Operational Amplifi ers Nonidealities 341 -- 5.7 Op Amp Selection Criteria 343.

5.8 Summary 347 -- 6 Electronic Devices: Diodes, BJTs, and MOSFETs 354 -- 6.1 Introduction to Electronic Devices 354 -- 6.2 The Ideal Diode 355 -- 6.3 Bipolar Junction Transistors (BJT) 374 -- 6.4 Metal Oxide Field Effect Transistor (MOSFET) 420 -- 6.5 Summary 443 -- 7 Combinational Circuits 456 -- 7.1 Introduction to Digital Circuits 456 -- 7.2 Binary Numbers: a Quick Introduction 456 -- 7.3 Boolean Algebra 460 -- 7.4 Minterms: Standard or Canonical Sum of Products (SOP) Form 467 -- 7.5 Maxterms: Standard or Canonical Product of Sums (POS) Form 472 -- 7.6 Karnaugh Maps and Design Examples 473 -- 7.7 Product of Sums Simplifi cations 490 -- 7.8 Don't Care Conditions 491 -- 7.9 Logic Gates: Electrical and Timing Characteristics 495 -- 7.10 Summary 500 -- 8 Digital Design Building Blocks and More Advanced Combinational Circuits 503 -- 8.1 Combinational Circuits with More than One Output 503 -- 8.2 Decoders and Encoders 510 -- 8.3 Multiplexers and Demultiplexers (MUXes and DEMUXes) 519 -- 8.4 Signed and Unsigned Binary Numbers 527 -- 8.5 Arithmetic Circuits: Half-Adders (HA) and Full-Adders (FA) 533 -- 8.6 Carry Look Ahead (CLA) or Fast Carry Generation 543 -- 8.7 Some Short-Hand Notation for Large Logic Blocks 546 -- 8.8 Summary 547 -- 9 Sequential Logic and State Machines 550 -- 9.1 Introduction 550 -- 9.2 Latches and Flip-Flops (FF) 552 -- 9.3 Timing Characteristics of Sequential Elements 571 -- 9.4 Simple State Machines 574 -- 9.5 Synchronous State Machines General Considerations 592 -- 9.6 Summary 599 -- 10 A Simple CPU Design 603 -- 10.1 Our Simple CPU Instruction Set 603 -- 10.2 Instruction Set Details: Register Transfer Language (RTL) 605 -- 10.3 Building a Simple CPU: A Bottom-Up Approach 607 -- 10.4 Data Path Architecture: Putting the Logic Blocks Together 615 -- 10.5 The Simple CPU Controller 620 -- 10.6 CPU Timing Requirements 626 -- 10.7 Other System Pieces: Clock, Reset and Power Decoupling 628 -- 10.8 Summary 633 -- Further Reading 633 -- Problems 633 -- Index 637.