Overview
ELECTRONIC PHYSICAL DESIGN is an excellent text for readers learning how to improve the physical design of products. The focus of the book is on how to take a circuit, which has been successfully simulated, from the design stage to the production stage.
The book uses a unique approach, by using an example of each physical design consideration and applying it to the design of a "boom box:" a portable, personal stereo system complete with radio, tape player, CD player, and speakers. In this way, readers can readily grasp the concepts and understand how they apply to the specific circuit being presented.
The book covers the fundamentals as well as more advanced topics:
- a brief introduction of electronics
- safety issues
- many types of electronic components
- fixed and variable resistors
- capacitor types
- diode and transistor packages
- the process by which circuits are built
- how to make a high-quality product
- wise physical design decision making
- how vibration, shock, humidity, and dust affect design
Synopsis
This book gives professionals clear explanations of the alternatives in common design decision, advantages and disadvantages of the options, tables of characteristics relative to design decision, discussion of alternatives often unknown in practice, and examples of applications.
This book addresses the choices to be made at every level of design, including the IC level, the IC package level, and the circuit board level. It then discusses the choices between the many types of resistors, capacitors, connectors, and transistor packages. Finally, this text addresses the concepts involved in building high-quality products, such as robust design, heat vibration, shock, dust, and humidity.
For circuit design engineers, circuit-board layout engineers, design engineers, physical design engineers, product engineers, and reliability engineers.