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This positive forward looking series builds on the issues raised at the Earth Summit (1992), and considers how we can accommodate the needs of people while looking at how to manage and preserve the world in which we live. Each title considers issues central to sustainable development, such as using renewable resources and curbing pollution, and relates them to the specific topic area of each book. Case studies featured throughout each title show how sustainable practices are currently used in communities around the world. An attractive layout and full colour photographs clearly illustrate the issues being discussed. ... Read more

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As the frequency of communication systems increases and thedimensions of transistors are reduced, more and more stringentperformance requirements are placed on analog circuits. This is atrend that is bound to continue for the foreseeable future and whileit does, understanding performance trade-offs will constitute a vitalpart of the analog design process. It is the insight and intuitionobtained from a fundamental understanding of performance conflicts andtrade-offs, that ultimately provides the designer with the basic toolsnecessary for effective and creative analog design. Trade-offs in Analog Circuit Design, which is devoted to theunderstanding of trade-offs in analog design, is quite unique in thatit draws together fundamental material from, and identifiesinterrelationships within, a number of key analog circuits. The bookcovers ten subject areas: Design methodology, Technology, GeneralPerformance, Filters, Switched Circuits, Oscillators, Data Converters,Transceivers, Neural Processing, and Analog CAD. Within these subjectareas it deals with a wide diversity of trade-offs ranging fromfrequency-dynamic range and power, gain-bandwidth, speed-dynamic rangeand phase noise, to tradeoffs in design for manufacture and IC layout.The book has by far transcended its original scope and has become botha designer's companion as well as a graduate textbook. An importantfeature of this book is that it promotes an intuitive approach tounderstanding analog circuits by explaining fundamental relationshipsand, in many cases, providing practical illustrative examples todemonstrate the inherent basic interrelationships and trade-offs.

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