Intuitive IC Electronics: A Sophisticated Primer for Engineers and Technicians

by Thomas M. Frederiksen

Book Overview

technical book on IC electronics This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0070219230
• ISBN13: 9780070219236
• Release Date: January 1982
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Length: 183 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Great reference work on electronics

Oddly enough, many people in the electronics industry (even some electronics engineers) remain mystified by the basic internal mechanisms common to all semiconductor devices. This book, which moves from the simplest to some of the most sophisticated IC devices, offers a comfortable understanding of the way these devices really work. Using physical intuition rather than mathematics to tell the story, it also explains the application of these devices in both linear and digital circuits, including semiconductor memories..Assuming no prior knowledge of semiconductors, the book reviews major electrical and electronic concepts and examines in detail the PN junction diode, which is then used as a key to understanding all other modern semiconductor devices. Important processes and circuits are discussed throughout the book, with emphasis on commercially significant semiconductor products.As the coverage is intended to be informative, not rigorous, the treatment keeps mathematics to an absolute minimum, stressing the basic physical mechanisms. Many illustrations are used to illuminate key semiconductor principles and mechanisms.The purpose of the book is to help practicing engineers and technicians at all levels, QA personnel, and nontechnical managers gain a thorough understanding of the basic devices that make new semiconductor products possible. Consequently the book covers the fundamentals of all the major commercial diodes, including the zener, avalanche, P-i-N, varactor, Schottky, and even the special high-conductance diodes. It also explains the bipolar transistor as a simple extension of the diode theory and shows a novel way to evaluate output impedance under various circuit conditions. Additional material highlights the evolution of all the bipolar digital logic families, examines significant improvements, and describes the newer 12L designs.But that's not all. The book also covers Junction Field-Effect Transistors (JFETs) and presents an easy-to-grasp approach to the rapidly evolving Metal-Oxide Semiconductor (MOS) transistor, which is the backbone of the current advances in semiconductor memories, calculators, and microprocessors. Finally, these new MOS products are discussed with major emphasis on the rapidly developing RAM and nonvolatile semiconductor ROM products.The central idea of this book is to explain the basic semiconductor mechanisms that take place within solid-state integrated circuits in an easy-to-understand, intuitive way. This allows the reader to grasp the main ideas behind all the devices used in the new semiconductor products, from the many types of diodes to the bipolar transistors, the JFETs, the MOSFETS, and the developments in technologies for microprocessors and semiconductor memories. Semiconductor technology continues to move very fast; therefore, many new concepts and devices also have been briefly covered to provide a quick updating for the reader.The explanations presented will aid both students, as