Jim Williams (2) (1948–2011)

This book is 20 years old and shows its age a lot. However there is always a timeless quality to the “art” of engineering and I did appreciate some of the wisdom of the analog circuit designers who contributed essays to this book.

Fast forward to today and a lot of these designers are probably eating their words about how awful and pointless digital design is. Now we live in a world in which digital is ubiquitous. Granted, there will always be a market for analog, but digital has won the war.

I don’t think this book would appeal much to the layperson, or even necessarily students, because a lot of the content is highly technical. However, I found myself skimming over those parts and just focused on the more general (and thus more timeless) content matter.… (more)