
Chapter
11
Tricks of the trade
There are numerous tricks of the trade which the
complete electronic engineer could usefully know,
and this chapter includes a selection of them. All
are either interesting or useful and, better still,
many of them are both. They fall into two cat-
egories, the theoretical and the practical, although
the distinction is not always that clear-cut. Let's
start with the theoretical tricks of the trade.
Extremes and normalizing
The emphasis throughout this book has been on
understanding how analog circuits work, on seeing
just what makes them tick, rather than simply
accepting that if you slog through the maths the