Modern Component Families and Circuit Block Design

Preface

Nihal Kularatna, 39A, Sumudu Place, Sri Rahula Road, Katubedda, Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. 6 August 1999

I began compiling the material for this work when the transistor was celebrating its golden jubilee. It justified me taking a broader look at the world of modern component families without a specific bias toward analog, digital or mixed signal component families.

Nature & human activities being analog, while the modern world of electronic engineering makes use of digital processing, one must be serious about the conversion process too. At the same time designers may have to appreciate a new theory… proposed by Theo A. M. Classen of Philips Semiconductors about the technology component necessary to increase the usefulness of an electronic system ...