This book is intended particularly as a text for undergraduate students of electrical and electronic engineering at the intermediate level of a degree course. Some material may, however, be appropriate to the final year. Each topic has been deliberately selected and emphasis has been given to operational amplifier circuits and their applications, data acquisition circuitry and computer aided analysis and design. Other useful topics which have been covered in some detail are analogue filter circuits and phase-locked loops. A list of the prerequisite knowledge for this text is given in the first chapter.

This book is most appropriate for students because (i) a specific subject area, analogue circuits for more advanced students has been highlighted and (ii) particular attention has been given to a descriptive treatment of practical details and applications, e.g. CAD rather than theoretical analysis, because these areas are often neglected and are essential for practising engineers. Therefore it is hoped that students and engineers alike will find this text useful and informative, but less analytical than many other books presently available, and thus be able to cover a wider range of topics within a given period of time. Several carefully chosen problems set at various levels of difficulty are included at the end of each section to help readers gain a better understanding of the topics under discussion.

I would like to thank my parents and my immediate colleagues both academic and industrial for their encouragement and advice in the preparation of the manuscript.