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It's interesting that he started with that topic. As opposed to voltage, current , RC circuits, etc. He's got quite a few topics, like emitter followers and o
by mcshicks 3y ago
It's interesting that he started with that topic. As opposed to voltage, current , RC circuits, etc. He's got quite a few topics, like emitter followers and op amps. But I think he's a bit below the level of what people need in order to create useful PCB level electronics. I think something like this would be so much more useful if it was tied to an existing book on the subject, like for instance "The Art of Electronics". Which actually doesn't cover device physics but start with just transistor and diode models presented as facts.
- znpy 3y agoIt makes perfect sense to me, as this looks more like an university-level course rather than a tutorial. In my university there were two main course around electronics (past the electromagnetism part pf the physics course) circuit theory (all things voltages, currents, various laws like thevenin, transformations, capacitors, resistors, inductances and ideal diodes) and then there was the electronic course (all things transistor, basic signal analysis etc). My university was a proper (and major) engineering-centered university though.
- PennRobotics 3y agoThis seems more like a quarter of Sedra/Smith[1]---which, at over 1200 pages, could very well be three courses---and half of an electronic materials/semiconductors course. [1] https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/microelectronic-circuits-9780190853464?cc=de&lang=en& https://global.oup.com/ushe/product/microelectronic-circuits... When I did a Sedra/Smith course, it was after two semesters of passive linear circuit analysis, so it makes sense to skip the basics in lecture 1. ----- Personally, I found 6.002 (MIT's Circuits lecture[2]) very good for getting through electricity basics and into amplifier modelling, and then using Falstad's simulator to explore real amplifiers and diode circuits. I wish the lecture audio was better, because at one point he moves from the I-V bend of a crude amplifier into the linear region (by applying a bias voltage and shrinking the signal input) while playing music[3], and that sounds really cool live. [2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F74AFA03AA06A11 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9F74AFA03AA06A11 [3] https://youtu.be/JqvKtMNz3RQ?t=1480 https://youtu.be/JqvKtMNz3RQ?t=1480 It's old content, so 240p. At one point, they had better lecture videos from a more recent year, but those are maybe on edX or MIT DSpace or their Digital Learning server.
- sheepshear 3y agoRazavi has authored several well-known textbooks, one of which is on introductory microelectronics, the subject of these videos. Linear circuits are covered in prerequisite courses.