Book
Circuit Design
Using Personal Computers
This book is intended for practicing electrical engineers and technicians.
Its topics will also interest
electronics engineers, who design circuits derived in terms of complex variables
and functions, to provide impedance matching, filtering, and linear
amplification. Circuits operating from very low frequencies all the way through
millimeter waves can be designed by these techniques. The necessary numerical
methods will also be of interest to readers who do not have specific
applications.
Circuit Design Using Personal Computers is a practical guide for using personal computers to implement both classical and sophisticated design techniques. The numerical methods presented include solution of complex linear equations, integration, curve fitting by rational functions, nonlinear optimization, and operations on complex polynomials. These programmed tools are applied to examples of filter synthesis, to illustrate the subject as well as the numerical methods.
Several powerful direct-design methods for filters are described, and both single frequency and broadband impedance-matching techniques and limitations are explained. An efficient ladder network analysis method is described and programmed to for confirming network designs and evaluating responses, including component sensitivities. The seventeen programs for handheld calculators have been reprogrammed to run as an .EXE file on PC’s as well as the original twenty-eight programs in BASICA. They are available on CDs.