Robert Lacoste's The Darker Side

Practical Applications for Electronic Design Concepts from Circuit Cellar

By: Robert Lacoste

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Paperback | 26 October 2009

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Robert Lacoste's The Darker Side column has quickly become a must read among Circuit Cellar devotees. His column provides readers with succinct theoretical concepts and practical applications on topics as far reaching as digital modulation to antenna basics. Difficult concepts are demystified as Robert shines a light on complex topics within electronic design.

This book collects sixteen Darker Side articles that have been enriched with new, exclusive content from the author. An intro into The Darker Side will give examples of material that can enhance and optimize the way you design. A Scilab tutorial along with Scilab software and all project material will be included with this package so that all projects can be tackled hands-on. It's time to stop being afraid of the dark, let this book easily guide you through the time-draining, problematic elements of your application design.

Tips and tricks to enhance design performance
Practical advice on topics from digital signal design to electromagnetic interference

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"This is an awesome design book! It has a wealth of practical knowledge on many key topics in electrical engineering and is well worth reading from cover to cover." --As reviewed in IEEE Electrical Insulation

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Forward: Introduction (by Circuit Cellar staff)
Preface: Don't be afraid by the Darker side
Let's play with EMI (on radiated perturbations experiments)
Cable shielding experiments (theory refresh, experiments, and rules for cable shielding)
The ADC and its neighbours (families, input stages, clock selection, SNR concerns, aperture uncertainty, PCB design, etc)
The FFT from A to Z (why a frequency transform, theory of FT, FFT implementation, available code, microcontrollers, pitfails, windowing, applications)
No fear with FIR (on FIR fiters concept, design, software approach, with C example and lot of simulations)
Poles & zeros (basic filter theory, IIR filters design, analog & digital implementation)
Digital signal processing implementations (multirate processing, firmware implementation, CIC filters and decimation, examples on sound card)
Let's be crystal clear (crystal structure, basic oscillators, pitfals, overtone, etc)
Are you locked ? A PLL primer (on PLL concept, VCO simulation, design, chips, etc)
Direct digital synthesis 101 (on DDS, concept, plenty of simulations, microcontroller based design, chips)
Digital modulations demystified (IQ processing, FSK, MFSK, GFSK, PSK, BPSK, QAM, OFDM, etc)
Antenna basics (Antennas fundamentals, impedance matching, wire and EM simulation tools)
Low power techniques (power budget establishment, optimisation techniques, with Excel tool)
PID control without math (simulation codes, explnation of the parameters "intuitive" tuning)
Microstrip techniques (principle, design of microstrip components, filters, experiments)
Play with Time domain reflectometry (high speed pulse generator design, experiments, time to frequency, etc)
Conclusion
Appendix: Scilab tutorial
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Robert Lacoste's The Darker Side

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