Signal and Power Integrity--Simplified 2nd Edition

Usually I don't write superlative reviews, but I wonder how can an engineer simply not fall in love with this book.In my opinion, this book is _the_ definitive authority in exposing a critical set of principles, rules of thumb, and numerical approximation formulas in the field of signal integrity. Despite its apparent simplicity, the author clearly spared no efforts in making the subject at hand extremely clear to understand, especially for a hurried reader. Second, the book introduces conciseness and discipline in discussing basic terminology that is often presented in a confusing manner (such as defining various types of impedance, replacing the "thinking" around ground with one based on return paths). Also, the author is careful to point out certain conflicting notations/inconsistencies from various vendors that persist in the industry, for example when dealing with S-parameter notations. This book is simply how all the engineering books need to be written.That said, be aware that the book has a very practical focus by distilling the subject into various tips, rules and guidelines that can be applied later on. It is certainly not a theoretical treatise, and you'll search in vain classical EM stuff like deriving the telegrapher's equations from Maxwell's or solving them. The author magically walks around the theoretical stuff, by being able to give very simple and intuitive explanations to potentially complex subjects like time analysis of transmission lines. If you really want to understand the theory, you need to complement this book with "deeper" books such as Brian Young's book (Digital Signal Integrity: Modeling and Simulation with Interconnects and Packages) or Stephen Hall's book (Advanced Signal Integrity for High-Speed Digital Designs). But if you are new to the subject, or if you want a book which provides usually quick answers to the SI problems at hand, I would definitely start with this book.It's hard to find flaws into the book, and can provide only subjects could be expanded in a third edition. If the author is listening, I would also expected more details on stuff like:- How to test networks/circuits with a VNA- Various ways to interpret Smith charts and how to do impedance matching- More discussion on how to conduct BER experiments- More practical examples in using open-source software packages (circuit simulators such as QUCS, and 2D/3D field solvers etc) not just those that cost a fortune to license.- More discussion for the very-high frequency domain (10GHz or more)

This book, like numerous others on this subject, covers all the usual things to get the reader started in this area. But as is always the case, the approach is not always the same. When you think you get the picture with one author, it is good to look at the same thing in another book to see if what you find there also makes sense. The tricky bit occurs when correlation fails, in this case referring to this book by Eric Bogatin is one of the better places to begin the search for understanding.Most authors go on into their own favourite areas and look at them in more depth, Mr. Bogatin is no exception. How useful the more in depth parts will be depends on the sort of work you're involved in, so it is not very meaningful to say that book A is much better than book B; but for what it's worth, I like the style and approach, so for me this is a good first place to look when I want to gain a better understanding.

Professor Eric Bogatin took on the subject of signal integrity and "simplified" it. I use the word "simplified" loosely because he does not dumb down the subject, but rather, presents the subject in a very logical and understandable way. He does not bog down the subject in heavy mathematics or complex physics. He backs his commentary with pictures of measurements taken. Most importantly, he puts things in "real world" engineering perspective.Professor Eric Bogatin also provides a website to help educate the engineering community on this topic (bethesignal). He believes (and rightfully so) that all designers will have to deal with SI in the very near future, if not currently. So, if you are looking for a place to start in the world of high speed design and signal integrity, I recommend this book.

There were some problem with cover to, but I handle with that.

As an experienced hands-on hardware designer who possesses a lot of books that cover signal integrity issues, I find that the uniqueness of this book is that the author is able to explain very complex subjects using very clear concepts and equations. Chapters 12 and 13 were added to the original release of this book to provide key information of GHz designs. Chapter 12 describes in depth the use and interpretation of S-parameters as they apply to GHz PCB designs, and chapter 13 has an excellent treatment of the behavior, the challenges and how to overcome them to achieve a successful high-performance PDN design. I highly recommend this book for high-speed signal integrity design engineers.

This book is based on practical oriented and easy to understand the concepts. In like too many derivatives and too many formulas.

I have read many books on Signal and Power Integrity. Most of them either delve too deep into theory or just give rules of thumb. This book has the best of both worlds. It gives you enough theory to understand all the issues relating to Signal and Power Integrity. It also gives you lots of design guidelines and rules of thumb with their explanation. It even has an extensive list of all those theoretical and applied rules at the end of the book. If you are an Analog, Digital, and/or RF circuit designer/engineer then this book is for you. It is equally good and beneficial for both beginners and experienced engineers.

I am a Japanese engineer who is dealing with high frequency such as GHz waveform.This book is very easy to read because of its plain explanations. And one more thing. Some pictures and figures are great help for me. I was looking for this kind of "practical" books. Now I am very satisfied with it.I have two version of this book:Hardcover and kindle version.Kindle version's pictures are full color but hardcover version is not.(Of cource, when you read on PC or color-supported devices only.)I hope hardcover version's pictures would be same as kindle.