Consumer Electronics for Engineers

This book explains clearly the operating principles of 'real world' electronic devices, including video recorders, compact disk players, and mobile phones. Each chapter begins with a brief historical overview of the device concerned. The author then describes the key principles of each device's operation and presents a block circuit diagram. Next he analyzes these 'real world' circuits in detail, and, finally, he discusses the present state-of-the-art. This approach will help to integrate the many different aspects of an electrical engineer's course work, from physical optics to digital signal processing, as never before. Very accessible and containing over 350 illustrations and many exercises, this book will be an ideal textbook for undergraduate students of electrical engineering, and will also appeal to practising engineers.

1. AM receivers; 2. FM receivers; 3. Modern receiver circuitry; 4. Equalization; 5. Audio tape recorders; 6. Monochrome TV; 7. Color TV; 8. Video cassette recorders; 9. Digital audio; 10. Telephones.

Explains the operating principles of 'real world' electronic devices, including video recorders, compact disk players, and mobile phones. The author begins each chapter with a brief historical overview of the device concerned, a description of its key principles of operation, and a block circuit diagram. He analyzes these 'real world' circuits in detail and discusses the present state-of-the-art. By integrating the many different aspects of an electrical engineer's course work as never before, this textbook will be ideal for undergraduate students of electricalenginee ring and will appeal to practising engineers.