Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.382
EAN num: 9780130167620
ISBN number: 0130167622
Label: Prentice Hall
Manufacturer: Prentice Hall
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 883
Printing Date: April 17, 2001
Publishing house: Prentice Hall
Sale Popularity Level: 1059728
Studio: Prentice Hall
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For courses in Electronic Communications and Communication Systems.Now in its seventh edition, Modern Electronic Communication thoroughly examines the key concepts in electronic communications. Each chapter includes a section introducing a key communications concept using Electronic Workbench Multisim. Key terms are provided in the margins which highlight important concepts.
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I made a living prototyping satellite receiver head for the Ku band dish, called LNB ,which converted 12GHz wave to 500MHz cable TV signal, in year 1998-1999 and got an MS in Computer Science in UML in year 2001. I didn't know about Multisim in year 1999. In year 1999, the simulators, such as Eagleware, that displayed simulated vector network analyzer screen (the smith chart) were strictly RF-only simulators.
Today I went to MIT bookstore to read a book about cable Internet and browsed through this book by accident while standing in the crowd. In the last chapter, this book showed a map of fiber links in the US and another around the globe. It really caught my eyes. That was what I needed and no other books I have read showed any thing close to that. ISP's do research about unused, over built, fiber cables and use those to increase our capacity due to the FiOS competition. That map gave me a good sense of what the whole world's backbone fiber links look like. Then I came home and googled some key words and, boom, I found companies, such as NEF, providing database services about unused fibers for broadband ISP's.
The only comment I have is that the 2 fiber maps were provided by KMI, a company located in Nashua NH years ago before the dot com bubble burst. I started working in Nashua in 2001 in the midst of the burst for a company near KMI's address. Wikipedia fiber optics page named KMI one of the marketing companies that over-forecast fiber optic market. All these contributed to the telecom bubble economy during 1995-2000, not mentioning scandals. After all, fiber is our life artery today. In conclusion, I think the minor irritant is quite entertaining.
J. Curtis Gibson
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As an instructor of this curriculum, I am impressed with the improvements made in this edition from the 7th edition. I like Multisim, but nothing replaces a real world hands on lab. The examples need to consistently show the step-by-step mathematical derivation of the formulas used. In a pure EE curriculum the students will have no problem with this, but in an EET environment, the student may be removed from their math classes by a few years. The consistent step-by-step mathematical derivations would help. The new real world examples are timely. The book is a very good overview for an EET curriculum, but may not be in-depth enough for the EE. The publication does expect the student to have a good working knowledge of semiconductor devices and circuit analysis. I would like to see the subsequent edition teamed up with a good real world hands on lab and include the Multisim as well for a good number of the lab experiments. If you are an instructor, the publication has a number of power point presentations for visual aids. These are modifiable so the instructor can critique the presentation as desired. Overall, the publications is a nice overview of the curriculum, but not an in depth design publication
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For me this is a good book to own. Plenty of examples and problems to solve.
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I have no idea why my professor chose this book. He had a list of typos that we had to beware of and several of the chapter questions had incorrect answers. Only buy this book if you are required by a class, otherwise look for a more intuitive and better organized text.
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Some of the hardest and most complex circuits and schematics are not explained at all. Only the simplest things seem easy to understand. The author never demonstrates the equations or where they come from. The author assumes that the reader is a working engineer of technician that needs this book to remember the basics of communication electronics. Definitely not a recommended book to support an introductory course to communications.
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