Transmission Lines in Digital and Analog Electronic Systems

In the last 30 years there have been dramatic changes in electricaltechnology--yet the length of the undergraduate curriculum hasremained four years. Until some ten years ago, the analysisof transmission lines was a standard topic in the EE and CpEundergraduate curricula. Today most of the undergraduatecurricula contain a rather brief study of the analysis oftransmission lines in a one-semester junior-level course onelectromagnetics. In some schools, this study of transmission linesis relegated to a senior technical elective or has disappeared fromthe curriculum altogether. This raises a serious problem inthe preparation of EE and CpE undergraduates to be competent in themodern industrial world. For the reasons mentioned above, today's undergraduates lack the basic skills to design high-speeddigital and high-frequency analog systems. It does littlegood to write sophisticated software if the hardware is unable toprocess the instructions. This problem will increase as thespeeds and frequencies of these systems continue to increaseseemingly without bound. This book is meant to repair thatbasic deficiency.