MasteringElectronicsDesign.com Electronics Design and Modeling with Emphasis on Analog Design
About MasteringElectronicsDesign.com
After many years as an engineer in electronics design, I decided it is time to start a website with my views about this wonderful art. I live in Southern California. I have a beautiful and smart wife, who is very supportive of my work. I have a daughter at law-school in New York, who spends all my money on tuition and Broadway shows. I have a neurotic cat whose only desire is to sleep in a dark, hidden place for most of the day, except at mealtimes.
I finished my PhD some years ago and I have a great job as an Electrical Engineer where I spend my time designing analog and mixed-signal design circuits. I lead a quiet life at home so, what better time to start this website and show the world that analog and mixed-signal design is not a mixture of cryptology and black magic, but rather an art that can solve a problem in many ways.
As in Mathematics, where some solutions to problems are regarded as elegant, in electronics one can enjoy the same treat, that warm, fuzzy feeling of achievement, after a circuit is designed and works as expected. This is not difficult. This is art, real and powerful and relevant.
Why this website?
The purpose of this website is to provide elegant solutions to analog and mixed-signal design problems that have a strong basis in math. My goal is to show engineering students and engineers that analog design is not complicated, so long as one understands the fundamentals and the reasoning behind the many aspects of the design. Hopefully, if they see what a wonderful art electronics design is, more will be encouraged to pursue it.
As in Mathematics, where some solutions to problems are regarded as elegant, in electronics one can enjoy the same treat, that fuzzy warm feeling of achievement, after a circuit is designed and works as expected.
Math is a central tool, for this website, which I use to prove a circuit or path of reasoning. I disagree with articles, commentaries and books that take pride in the fact that they show a concept with no math involved. In those cases students are invited to learn formulas by heart without any understanding of underlying physics, or where the formulas came from. This deprives students of a powerful reasoning tool. ...
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