Drawing on 30-plus years of experience in professional and research environments, electronics engineer Kularatna (U. of Waikato, New Zealand) presents a text to aid electrical engineering students and professionals in understanding the total design process and the development of prototypes which require little to no debugging prior to release. The work addresses several areas of analog and mixed signal design, including power supply design, signal conditioning, essentials of data conversion, and signal processing, while also summarizing a large amount of information from theory texts, application notes, design bulletins, research papers, and technology magazine articles. While Kularatna serves as the primary author, four subject area experts from New Zealand, Australia, and Korea also contribute material on the design process; configurable logic blocks for digital systems design; oscillators, phase lock loops, and direct digital synthesis; and system-on-a-chip design and verification. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)