This is an interesting book. I've been in this space for years now and could easily see myself writing something like this, but I don't think it would look like this book.<p>I really don't like to see things like any sort of recommendation for use of n-propyl bromide. That shit's neurotoxic. The people who can use it safely will already know about it, know someone who knows about it, or find it on their own. Anyone who finds out about nPB here should not be touching it.<p>Unfortunately, many of the parts of the book that I've scanned are like that. There's a lot of prescription, not a lot of background/theory/underlying details, and no way to tell when the prescriptions are inapplicable or straight-up wrong. Which, often, they are: one of the hallmarks of deep experience is knowing when "the rules" are useful and when they're not, but what we have here is mostly rules. That will get your product out the door, I guess, but it's not going to level you up as an engineer, if that's what you're needing. Another example: stackups are discussed, but there's no mention of slash sheets, which is how you get things done cheaply and correctly. Specifying Rogers material for anything but the nastiest designs is just going to get your pockets drained and your Asian fab annoyed because they have to special order that. If you need it, sure, you need it... but can you get away with something more universal?<p>And then there's things like this: "Most SMPS datasheets will advise you on what
bead to use and where to put it". Hahahaha no they won't. And if they will, there's a decent chance they get it wrong. Ferrite beads are so useful and so much trouble that you can't trust an IC datasheet to get it right, even if <i>they</i> want to do the same things <i>you</i> want to do. Which they might not!<p>If you're a more junior engineer trying to level up, give this one a look instead: Analog SEEKrets: <a href="https://www.eevblog.com/files/seekPDF.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www.eevblog.com/files/seekPDF.pdf</a>