Tony Chan Carusone has taught and researched microelectronics, integrated circuits and systems at the University of Toronto for over 20 years. He has co-authored the latest editions of the classic textbooks "Analog Integrated Circuit Design" along with D. Johns and K. Martin, and "Microelectronic Circuits" along with A. Sedra and K.C. Smith, the best-selling engineering textbook of all time with well over 1 million copies sold in 11 languages across its history. He's also a regular consultant in the semiconductor industry.
Here you can get an introduction to microelectronics and learn about the latest advances in analog/mixed-signal circuit design from Prof. Chan Carusone's lab at U. of T. Learn how transistors work, how to design high-speed data converters, how optical and wireless communication integrated circuits work, and more.
The Vox AC15 C1 guitar amp has two tube channels mixed with an unbalanced difference opamp stage: R1=470k, R2=820k, R3=330k, R4=120k, so the positive signal is hotter and phase inverted so it is attenuated (gains => Av+=0.732, Av-=1.745). I don't know, but once I played with a pal one each channel, worked really fine, what more could I expect.
This is super helpful. 30 years ago when I took microelectronics while learning English, I was not able to comprehend despite I passed the course. Because of that I stayed away from the dark side (analog). Didn't realize this is so much more fun than 1s and 0s.
i find it odd the book always talks about changing Vds when you are actually adjusting the Vgs. Vds is the result of Vgs. It's a tad bit confusing for noobs like me.
What about a glass based motherboard that holds all the optical waveguides lasers etc. the plug and play chips could then be manufactured based on a standard for a pin or glass beed based input output from their own glass based bonded substrate. In essence many of the copper pins and tracings would be replaced by waveguides and standardized plug and play interconnects powered by standardized motherboard lasers.
