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"My boss thinks
I should have learned this in college. How can I convince him
that I will become more efficient from the knowledge gained at
this course, and will therefore save the company money on design
time?"
You did learn the material
in college, but how to use it in design probably received little
or no attention. This course emphasizes just that: how to get
maximum benefit from what you know already, and increase your
design productivity.
Course graduates have
learned to save design time by eliminating the "equational
overload." Techniques are described to simplify circuits,
make viable approximations, and use easy representations to reduce
equations to intuitive forms -- you can see the circuit and select
values for components.
These techniques also
improve design quality. When you use design-oriented analysis,
you can generate an algebraic result in which terms are grouped
so that additional insight is obtained into the relative importance
of the various contributions to the result. This method of Low-Entropy
Expressions provides additional information needed for design,
in lieu of the number of equations needed to formally solve for
the number of unknowns.
Design often exists
separate from analysis as currently taught; however, design is
really the reverse of analysis. This is the basis for "design-oriented
analysis" and why it makes your design time more productive.
Dr. Middlebrook's course integrates design into analysis at a
fundamental and detailed level; this "missing link" focuses
your design efforts and leads to quality solutions in a timely
manner.
So show your boss the
comments from previous attendees, and suggest he or she watch
Dr. Middlebrook's videotape Real World Design.
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