The Design Analysis Handbook

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A book that should be on the shelf of every digital or analog electronic-system designer.

" - Frank Goodenough, Electronic DesignThis Handbook offers design engineers and managers immediately useful, meat-and-potatoes techniques for achieving design validation by analysis in an easy-to-read style.

The book contains numerous useful and interestingtips for electronics circuit designers.

Examples of rectifier circuits, power supplies, digital timing, thermal analysis, grounding and layout, and EMI/noise control are examined in detail with fully worked-out numerical examples.

If you need to create reliable, cost-effective, optimized designs, The Design Analysis Handbook provides a practical framework for integrating quality into the design process from start to finish.

The methodology used is called Worst Case Analysis Plus (WCA+), a design-validation tool that demands thoroughness and analytical thinking by the user.

A guide to assessing and validating circuit design, The Design Analysis Handbook presents processes and mathematical tools in a straightforward, real-world manner.

Unique features of the approach include chapters on safety, bad science, and surviving high-pressure design projects.

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Edward Walker is the president of Design/Analysis Consultants, Inc.

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The Handbook is based on DACI's extensive experience in the design and analysis of highly-reliable electronic systems.