Product Description
Over the last 40 years, Principles of Transistor Circuits has provided students and practitioners with a text they can rely on to keep them at the forefront of transistor circuit design. Although integrated circuits have widespread application, the role of discrete transistors both as important building blocks which students must understand, and as practical solutions to design problems, remains undiminished.The ninth edition has been thoroughly updated to cover the latest technology and applications, including computer circuit simulation, and many diagrams have been revised to bring them in line with current usage. Updated topics include thyristors, Darlington transistors, amplifiers, ring modulators, power supplies, optoelectronics and logic circuits. Stan Amos, formerly head of Technical Publications Section Engineering Training Department BBC, has been writing about electronics since the 1950s. Mike James is an established author and experienced FE lecturer. He currently works for Westland. His latest Newnes titles are Microcontroller Cookbook and Higher Electronics. The transistor circuits bibleUpdated with new developments in technology and applications Accessible step-by-step introduction ideal for novices

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 3.0 based on 3 reviews)

Informative, but poorly published. by Giles Siddons

3 Stars
May 27, 2006
I was looking for a book that addressed small-signal discrete transistor amplifiers, and this book does that very well. The topics presented are all presented clearly and fairly thoroughly. However, I can barely believe that in its 9th edition the volume is published so amazingly poorly. Text in figures (component values, current labels, etc.) is often completely illegible, suffering from severe pixellation and degradation, the likes of which I have seen from poorly inlined PostScript images into TeX typesetting. This is no exaggeration -- the letters cannot be read, they're just little blobs of grey. Furthermore, a key figure in the chapter describing DC biasing of FETs (fig. 6.13) is accidentally split into two separate figures rather than having an a) and b) -- this throws the figure numbering off for the rest of the chapter, which was really confusing until I realized the error. Summarizing, the text of the book is very good. The actual printed product is low-quality and slipshod. If you can work around the shortcomings, it's a valuable learning tool.

Not Edited how did this ever make it to 9th edition? by P. Beach (Dallas TX)

2 Stars
May 14, 2005
The text and math of this book seem fair untill you try to match up what the text talks about with the figures. There are times when the text refers to figures that don't exsist or refers to the wrong figure. There are figures that are suppose to have a part a and part b. The text compares the 'difference' but there is only one figure and no parts a or b. Overall a very confusing book.

GREAT introduction to transistor usage, but old notation

4 Stars
July 24, 2000
This book is a *wonderful* introduction to the understanding, analysis, and design of transistor circuits. The mathematics in this book is kept to a comfortable level and practical circuits are emphasised over the abstract transistor theory that's used in many textbooks.However, I cannot give this book 5 stars because of one flaw: the notation used in all the schematic diagrams is outdated. For example, resistors are marked with boxes rather than the more common zigzag lines. Also, digital circuit diagrams do not use the arrow/bullet notation, opting for a more difficult-to-read box for each logic function.Another drawback with this book is that FETs don't get treated in the same amount of depth as bipolar junction transistors. While BJTs are still in common use, FET circuits (particularly CMOS digital and analog ICs) are rapidly becoming commonplace and deserve additional treatment.These limitations should not keep you from enjoying this book if you wish to learn all about transistors.

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