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Summary: Worthless
Review: As a Cornell student, this ranks as the worst course textbook for any electrical engineering course in the department. The author does not proceed in a logical manner at all, instead preferring to "revisit" the material. The derivations are extremely sketchy, and in the end all of the problems become "plug and chug." You will not feel as if you've learned anything after going through this book.
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Summary: Textbook for an MIT electrical engineering header
Review: Charles Sodini is a professor at MIT who teaches 6.012 (Microelectronic Circuits and Devices) and is the co-author of this book, which we use in his class.The textbook is very well organized and gives very clear examples and numerous practice and design problems to play with. The derivations are easy to follow and the diagrams are well notated and complement the text. 6.012 is a one semester course at MIT covering all the topics discussed in the textbook. In addition to weekly problem sets (which are nothing more than the P problems from the textbook), the course is supplimented by a design project (similar to a design question you might find in chapter 13, but at a bigger scale), and two laboratories in device characterization (sadly, only available for MIT students). SPICE is used extensively. Someone mentioned that the problems seem like plug-and-chug, but I think the book is trying to teach you intuition so when you handle realistic problems (such as those presented in the design project questions), you have an idea of how to approach it through rough hand-calculations and then follow up with more precise measurements in SPICE.
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Summary: Confusing, unclear diagrams & equations, disinteresting
Review: Howe used this book when I was in his class. The book only furthered my confusions. Equations were not clear and generalities did not exist. Device physics area could use more general statements concerning equations and their use. Overall......total confusion.
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Summary: Worthless
Review: I have used several textbooks on integrated circuits in undergraduate classes that I teach, and I find this the best I could find. It includes an in-depth coverage of the electrostatics of semiconductor devices, with many practical examples, so students actually get to understand the physics of how transistors work. It also covers the fundamentals of microelectronic circuits at a level that is easy to grasp by junior and senior engineering students.
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Summary: Excellent introductory material
Review: I have used several textbooks on integrated circuits in undergraduate classes that I teach, and I find this the best I could find. It includes an in-depth coverage of the electrostatics of semiconductor devices, with many practical examples, so students actually get to understand the physics of how transistors work. It also covers the fundamentals of microelectronic circuits at a level that is easy to grasp by junior and senior engineering students.
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Summary: An excellent textbook
Review: I slept through all my lectures and got an A+ in the course because of this book. And no, I'm not from MIT and the authors of this book are not my professors.
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Summary: Confusing, unclear diagrams & equations, disinteresting
Review: I'm using this book as a textbook for my Electronic class. This book is useless because it seems like both were writing this book for him self. It's full and i mean full of equations. They forgot to mention what is meaning of thier equations. This new approch need to be written by some one have the students in mind.
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Summary: A book with no clear examples. It's a big mess
Review: I'm using this book as a textbook for my Electronic class. This book is useless because it seems like both were writing this book for him self. It's full and i mean full of equations. They forgot to mention what is meaning of thier equations. This new approch need to be written by some one have the students in mind.
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Summary: Not a good text to learn IC design and fabrication.
Review: Some exercises have no basis in the test. Mask illustrations are not in alignment. The text drifts in spots and makes learning difficult.
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Summary: AWFUL
Review: THIS BOOK IS AWFUL!!!!!! I've never seen a textbook as terrible as this. Notice how the guy who gave it 5 stars is from MIT. I wouldnt be surprised if it Sodini himself. Nice try Charles, but your textbook is terrible.
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