Foreword
Models scare engineers.
They expose, for all the world to see, any lack of understanding of the device being used or the design itself that they may have. This is why “I don’t do modeling” is a common refrain among electronics engineers.
Yet they do, indeed, do modeling. Without a model, you cannot analyze a design (either on the computer or by hand) to determine if it will work correctly. Models are (and always have been) essential to the design process. Show me a designer and I’ll show you a modeler.
To make matters worse, rarely, if ever, will a design fail from the aspects the engineer has considered. It more likely fails from what the engineer has ignored or didn’t know about. And, to top it off, systems have become so complex ...
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