| Do you suffer from "algebraic paralysis" when you try to apply conventional
analysis methods? Now you can:
Save Design Time
Improve Design Quality
Get more useful answers with less work
by taking this "Technical Therapy" course, in which participants "regress" until they are able to
acknowledge that much of what they were taught formally is useless in the "real world".
Then, you can adopt a Positive Attitude in which you are the Master of the analysis, instead of
the Slave!
If you are an Analog Designer, you have probably discovered that "real world" analog
circuit design is much more complicated than the simplified, sanitized exercises you successfully
completed as a student. Analog design is one of the toughest jobs in the electronics industry, as
there are no cut-and-dried formulas. Have you concluded that there are never enough equations to
solve, and even the equations you do have are too complicated to be of much use?
If you are an Analog Manager, you have probably discovered that the analysis presented to
you by your design engineers gives you little insight into what is going on, and makes it difficult
for you to offer guidance and suggestions.
There is a way to overcome these roadblocks! Dr. R. David
Middlebrook, Professor of Electrical Engineering at Caltech, over many years of consulting with
design engineers in industry, developed techniques that avoid "algebraic paralysis" and allow you to
handle complex designs by breaking them into manageable building blocks. The methods were refined in
teaching his Caltech students, and he now makes them available to engineers in industry.
The key is Design-Oriented Analysis in terms of Low-Entropy Expressions,
which enables you to solve "real life" design problems by keeping the algebra under control. Instead
of simultaneous solutions of multiple loop or node equations, which automatically leads to the
familiar (and useless) "High-Entropy" result, you get a useful "Low-Entropy" result in sequential,
simple, circuit reduction steps: "Divide and Conquer."
In this course you will learn many concrete and specific tools and techniques of Design-Oriented
Analysis, including:
How to avoid algebra by doing it on your circuit diagram and on your graph;
How to account for an extra element in your circuit diagram, without having to start the analysis
process all over again;
How to find input and output impedances from your gain expression, without having to make
separate lengthy analyses of your circuit diagram (almost two-thirds less work!).
How to find the loop gain of your feedback amplifier by injecting a test signal into the closed
loop, and avoid breaking the loop with the consequent hassle of re-establishing the operating point.
Middlebrook's Structured Analog Design Course has been given more than 50 times over the last ten
years. In addition to public presentations, the course has been conducted in-house at many
companies, in some cases several times at the same or different plant locations. These include:
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AT&T
Boeing
CERN (Switzerland)
Chrysler
Cirrus Logic
Compaq
Datatape
Elektronik Centralen (Denmark)
Eltek Energy AS (Norway)
Ericsson (Sweden)
GE Astro
Gennum (Canada)
Hewlett Packard
IBM
Jet Propulsion Lab
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Litton
Lucent Technologies
Matra Marconi (England)
Motorola
NASA Goddard
Philips (Netherlands, Belgium)
Qualcomm
SCS Exhibitions (England)
SIFU (Sweden)
STI (Sweden)
Sundstrand
Tandem Computers
TELI (Sweden)
TRW
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