Electronics Circuit SPICE Simulations with LTspice: A Schematic Based Approach (Electronics Circuit Simulations)

great

If you are already crawling around LT Spice then this will provide some instruction in how to walk upright. Augments what is generally available on the web. Provides a useful link between electronics classes and your hobby.

A+++

More a booklet than a book, and the type was so tiny I couldn't read it without a magnifying glass.

This is hard to read on a kindle. You keep flipping page after page, and very little information on each page. It's hard to get heads or toes on what the purpose of the examples are, finding a path through the book and a purpose of it, other than showing basic electronics principles (which wasn't why I purchased the book) this was a bad book. Given it's cheap price, not exactly a big loss.

It's a book...barely. Received yesterday and read the first 30 pages. I'm currently writing a lab manual for an electronics course and am teaching myself LTSpice; my hope in purchasing this book were that it would provide additional insight into use of the program and potentially some good lab exercises/simulations. My initial impressions:1) It's unclear as to the audience of the book. The author's claim it is for beginners but fail to even cover the most basic ideas. For example, the first circuit simulation spends two pages on how to change the background options in LTSpice, but then gives no guidance as to how to place the circuit elements, draw connecting wires, specify settings on the voltage supply, and placing ground.2) Many of the diagrams within a chapter demonstrate minor changes to a circuit, usually rotating an element and changing the polarity of the voltage supply.3) Poor explanations of the background theory and/or theory of operation. This issue is further compounded by repeating poor explanations several times for minor changes to the circuit, for example, changing the polarity across a diode.4) Formatting issues: The top/bottom margins are too large; the pages are approximately 6.5 inches tall but the text/figures only use the middle 4 inches. The scaling on figures is inconsistent; sometimes they're magnified too much and are pixelated; other times they're so small as to make it difficult to read.5) Spelling error, for example ohms law rather than Ohm's Law or "...itandthus" rather than "...it, thus".

This book provides an excellent starting point to the beginners of SPICE. Very concisely written and well illustrated process leaves no room for doubt while using LT SPICE. Loved the book ...

A very good introduction. Does not go very far, I'm looking for the next bread-crumb.