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• Review Jim Williams Book

  The Art and Science of Analog Circuit Design was an extremely interesting book to me. I have been a fan of Jim Williams for many years. Jim's ideas have showed me how to design wide bandwidth circuits and build them in my basement. I read the book from cover to cover.
  Larry Dobbins

• Excellent Educational Material

  I've been an analog circuit designer for forty years. Jim's book provides great historical information and a lot of circuit design information. Definitely a "must read" for someone that wants to learn more about electronics and has a desire to be a knowledgeable design engineer. I really don't understand the smug response from the two-star reviewers. Buy it, you'll like it.

• A few good sections...

  This book has a number of good sections, but the majority of the book is really stupid. It has a really good section for job interview preparation, and it gives a good idea of workplace politics. The technical knowledge from this book is not useful whatsoever. I did not find it to be funny, it was actually really embarrassing to be reading a book with random pictures such as an open pizza box, or the guy's wife with a rolling pin about to smash an oscilloscope.

• Electrical Engineering Novel

  You gotta admire the experienced geeks and how they learnt electronics stuff the hard but lasting way. They can never forget the basics as they have so much practical experience. Being a beginner in this wonderful field of analog design, I enjoyed the book a lot. We tend to cram ourselves with knowledge from different books and our instructors also encourage us to explore different methods of explaining things but nothing can beat the time tested, practical experience gained by doing stuff on the bench. Some of the design ideas are really good. After reading this book read the book "trouble shooting analog circuits" by Bob Pease. The authors have proven that practical bench experience is as important as theory in doing good, marketable designs.

• more fiction than fact

  The title and reviews give the impression that this book is a collection of the black arts and secrets of analog design. It isn't. 80% of the chapters are old-timers' "when I were a lad" stories. It's not necessarily a bad book - it's highly entertaining and well-written, and new graduates will find the real-life hints and caveats useful, but if you have more than a few years of experience in the industry, don't expect to be educated.
  

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