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- Publisher: Pearson Education; 1 edition (10 Aug 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405853212
- ISBN-13: 978-1405853217
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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This textbook on electronic devices provides an introduction to semiconductors, diode applications, special-purpose diodes and bipolar junction transistors. Also provide are answers to self-tests, and answers to odd-numbered problems.
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In the Floyd tradition of writing excellence, this best-selling text provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of electronic devices and circuits in a format that is clearly written and superbly illustrated. As in prior editions, Electronic Devices, Sixth Edition, not only delivers the most current information in a style that is engaging, concise, and easy to read; it reinforces the material learned with a host of features designed to strengthen readers' understanding and retention. From its multitude of worked-out examples and related problems to its carefully selected System Applications, Troubleshooting Sections, and exercises using Electronics Workbench™ circuit simulations, this book offers its readers the most thorough instruction available in the field today.
Electronic Devices, Sixth Edition, is ideally suited for any one- or two-semester course covering discrete devices and/or integrated circuits. To support the learning process throughout each course, the following ancillaries are available for the student:
- CD-ROM containing extensive exercises and problems using Electronics Workbench® Version 5 and Electronics Workbench® Multisim Version 6 circuit files, included with each copy of the text
Experiments in Electronic Devices (A Laboratory Manual, ISBN 0-13-092256-0) - Laboratory Exercises for Electronic Devices (A Laboratory Manual, ISBN 0-1 3-092275-7)
- Companion Website http://www.prenhall.com/floyd
In addition, instructors will find the following to be of benefit when using this text:
- Instructor's Resource Manual with Test Item File (ISBN 0-13-092257-9)
- Solutions Manual for Experiments in Electronic Devices (ISBN 0-13-092254-4)
- Solutions Manual for Laboratory Exercises for Electronic Devices (ISBN 0-13-092274-9)
- PH Test Manager (ISBN 0-13-092259-5)
- PowerPoint Transparencies® (ISBN 0-13-092263-3)
- CourseGompass (ISBN 0-13-065354-3)
- Instructor Supplement CD-ROM (ISBN 0-13-064671-7) For more information concerning WebCT and Blackboard, contact your local Prentice Hall representative.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
Whatever topic you read, explanations are straight-forward and well written. The layout is good - well spaced out and clear with plenty of diagrams.
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16 of 16 people found the following review helpful
Very simple explanation.....weak excercises!
29 Nov 1999
Format:Hardcover
Explanations go very smoothly to the extent that somebody who has nothing to do with semi-conductor physics will understand it directly. Nice graphs, neat diagrams, etc.. but the problems are very weak in comparison to other books, such as Sedra & Smith's book (Micro-Electronic circuits). However, the explanations of the latter are on a very advanced level. I recommend Floyd's book for somebody who wants to understand, but not to practice!
14 of 14 people found the following review helpful
Errors in "Advanced Problems"
12 Feb 1998
Format:Hardcover
I started using Floyd because it seemed to be at the right level for my students. Especially the weaker students would benefit from it, I hoped. I would rate "The Art of Electronics" by Horowitz and Hill a much better book on electronics, but it is too difficult for many. However, I discovered annoying errors in Floyd's "Advanced Problems". For example 2-44, which I interpret as designing a clipping circuit for +18 V and -10 V using a single 24 V DC power supply; I don't know how to do it. Or problem 3-39, where a 110 V AC voltage is connected diodes and zeners that could never stand this. Anyway, in Fig. 3-71 it is not reasonable to have 220 Ohm resistors for both the 6.8 V Zener and the 24 V zener. Howcome errors like these can persist in the fourth edition?
22 of 29 people found the following review helpful
Not for university students...
28 Feb 2004
Format:Paperback
My teacher used this book (fifth edition) in a basic electronics course (university). The book begins with some semiconductor basics, the pn-junction is explained and this chapter is OK if one just needs the very basic understanding (which in some schools might be enough). The second chapter contains some diodeapplications and power supply filters, the third chapter is about zener diode applications and some special purpose diodes. Then he goes on with the BJT, FET and the opamp. The physics behind the BJT is very superficially covered but he explains the operation of the BJT in principle. The book considers the basic transistor amplifier circuits but a lot of important material is left out. He uses the r-parameter model as the transistor smallsignal equivalent model, which is not a very common smallsignal model. The FET transistor comes as the next chapter, and here I miss the physics behind the FET. Of course one can design circuits without knowing the physics behind these devices, but knowing the physics will give you a much better understanding. It should also be mentioned that this book is limited to low frequency applications. Further, he doesn't say anything at all about feedback in transistoramplifiers which is one of the most important concepts in electronics. One should know that without feedback you are more or less limited to one-transistor amplifier stages, at least for the practical situation.
The chapters contaning the opamp is good as starting point, although the basics could be explained in more detail. Most of the material in these chapters are limited to simple opamp circuits, and you will therefore run through these chapters without the need for any deeper analysis.
The chapters contaning the opamp is good as starting point, although the basics could be explained in more detail. Most of the material in these chapters are limited to simple opamp circuits, and you will therefore run through these chapters without the need for any deeper analysis.
What an electronics engineer should learn isn't all contained in this book, neither in any other book, but I must say this book is unsuccesful because almost everything in the book isn't deeply enough covered. You will probably not learn to design anything (at least not well enough), you just learn to calculate nodevoltages and the amplifier gain in different basic circuits. What is also left out is a general discussion about some certain problems, such as practical considerations for example. You will neither develop your basic mathematical skills using this book, because the author has left out most of the math (although very basic math), formulas are sometimes just stated without a derivation and so on. This book is just big and heavy because of the big font size and the many big pictures.
One might think that I do not need a book that consideres everything in very detail. The problem is that this book is too far from that and isn't therefore intended to students at a university level. I neither think that the author wrote a book, which can be compared to other "more serious" books in the field. This is a book for those who wants to learn the basics without any deeper mathematical insight.
There is a lot of books in this field, and I could mention a couple of good books that gave me a much better understanding of basic electronics. If you wanna learn op amp circuits, "Design with operational amplifiers and analog integrated circuits" by Sergio Franco, is just superior and contains everything you need about opamps, and is also well written. Books which covers transistors quite good are "Mircoelectronic circuits" by Sedra/Smith and "Microelectronics" by Millman/Grabel. The book by Sedra/Smith is quite easy to understand and contains very good homework problems. The only thing I'm missing here are some practical considerations.
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