David J. Sager
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Table of Contents
0. Foreword..................................................................................................................... 2
1. Introduction.................................................................................................................. 6
1.1 Circuit Analysis....................................................................................................... 6
1.2 Describing Circuits.................................................................................................. 6
2. Network Topology....................................................................................................... 8
2.1 Terminals................................................................................................................. 8
2.2 Links and Currents................................................................................................... 8
2.3 Nodes and Voltages................................................................................................. 9
2.4 Devices.................................................................................................................... 9
2.5 A Network Topology............................................................................................... 9
2.6 Semidevices and Ports............................................................................................. 9
3. Descriptive Remarks................................................................................................. 11
4. Some Important Devices and Some Examples........................................................... 15
4.1 One Terminal Devices........................................................................................... 15
4.2 Two Terminal Devices.......................................................................................... 15
4.2.1 The Current Source........................................................................................ 15
4.2.2 The Voltage Source........................................................................................ 17
4.2.3 The Resistor................................................................................................... 19
4.2.4 The Diode...................................................................................................... 21
4.2.5 The Inductor and the Capacitor...................................................................... 24
4.3 Three Terminal Devices........................................................................................ 26
4.3.1 The Silicon Bipolar Transistor...................................................................... 26
4.3.2 The MOSFET................................................................................................ 34
5. Composite Devices.................................................................................................... 37
6. Numbers of Equations and Independence of Equations.............................................. 41
6.1 The Essentials........................................................................................................ 41
6.2 Topology................................................................................................................ 42
6.2.1 Summary........................................................................................................ 42
6.2.2 Independence of the Current Balance Equations............................................ 42
6.2.3 Equation Counting.......................................................................................... 45
6.3 Devices.................................................................................................................. 47
6.3.1 Summary........................................................................................................ 56
7. A Circuit Analysis Program....................................................................................... 57
7.1 Description............................................................................................................ 57
7.2 Example................................................................................................................. 60
8. Estimating.................................................................................................................. 66early noted in the attribution.
