FOUNDATION
Learn Analog Electronics from the basics
Short chapters, in reading order. Each one explains an idea from first principles and leads into the topic notes.
The chapters, in order
CHAPTER 1
Nonlinear elements: operating points and linearisation
How to solve a diode circuit, when a straight-line diode model will do, and why a small signal on a bias sees the diode as a resistor set by its bias current.
Leads into the GATE topics: Diode circuits · Amplifiers
CHAPTER 2
Reasoning with ON and OFF states
This chapter decides which diodes conduct, turns a clipper into a table of breakpoints and argues by charge about a diode with a capacitor.
Read first: Chapter 1, Nonlinear elements
Leads into the GATE topics: Diode circuits