Christos C. Halkias, Jacob Millman: Integrated Electronics: Analog and Digital Circuits and Systems

This book was written primarily as a text for a first course in electronics for electrical engineering students. It should also be of interest to physics majors and to practicing engineers and scientists who wish to update their knowledge of semiconductor electronics and, particularly, of integrated circuits.
The following basic approach is used: Each device is introduced by presenting a simple physical picture of the internal behavior of the device. This discussion leads to a characterization of the device in terms of appropriate external variables and allows small-signal and large-signal models to be constructed. An analysis of the device as a circuit element in both analog and digital applications is then made. Combinations of devices, particularly in integrated-circuit form, are exploited as basic system building blocks. In summary: the reader is taken step-by-step from semiconductor physics to devices, models, circuits, and systems. Electronic design in the 1970's will depend predominantly upon the use of integrated circuits. Hence, the authors feel that the IC implementation of a device, circuit or system should be introduced into the EE curriculum as early as possible.