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Title: Microelectronics: An Integrated Approach by Roger T. Howe, Charles G. Sodini ISBN: 0-13-588518-3 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 20 September, 1996 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 2.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: AWFUL
Comment: 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.
Rating: 1
Summary: Absolutely Terrible
Comment: This is the worst textbook that I have ever read. The authors make way too many assumptions in deriving their equations. Also, their approximations seem very sketchy and go without proper justification. All of these assumptions and approximations make it near impossible to understand anything, and so the student is just left with a bunch of meaningless equations. The end-of-chapter problems and excercises thus become just plug-and-chug, and they teach the student absolutely nothing about semiconductor devices. The problems are only difficult in that the student must search through the 150 or so gigantic equations in each chapter to find the correct one to plug the numbers into. No insight is gained.
Rating: 5
Summary: Textbook for an MIT electrical engineering header
Comment: 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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Title: Computer Organization and Design Second Edition : The Hardware/Software Interface by David Patterson, David A. Patterson ISBN: 1558604286 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Signals and Systems by Simon Haykin, Barry Van Veen ISBN: 0471164747 Publisher: Wiley Text Books Pub. Date: 04 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $118.95 |
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Title: Electrical Engineering: Principles and Applications (2nd Edition) by Allan R. Hambley ISBN: 0130610704 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 05 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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Title: Semiconductor Device Fundamentals by Robert F. Pierret ISBN: 0201543931 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 02 November, 1995 List Price(USD): $120.00 |
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Title: How to Prepare for the GRE Test with CD-ROM by Sharon Weiner Green, Ira, K., Ph.D. Wolf ISBN: 0764176293 Publisher: Barron's Educational Series Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $29.95 |
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