Unlike books currently on the market, this volume attempts to satisfy two goals: combine circuits and electronics into a single, unified treatment, and establish a strong connection with the contemporary world of digital systems. Using the concept of abstraction, the authors attempt to form a bridge between the world of physics and the world of large computer systems.

1 The Circuit Abstraction
2 Resistive Networks
3 Network Theorems
4 Analysis of Nonlinear Circuits
5 The Digital Abstraction
6 The MOSFET Switch
7 The MOSFET Amplifier
8 The Small Signal Model
9 Energy Storage Elements
10 First-order Transients
11 Energy and Power in Digital Circuits
12 Transients in Second Order Circuits
13 Sinusoidal Steady State
14 Sinusoidal Steady State: Resonance
15 The Operational Amplifier Abstraction
16 Diodes

Director of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and a professor of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Science department at MIT. His research focus is in parallel computer architectures and cloud software systems, and he is a founder of several successful startups, including Tilera, a company that produces scalable multicore processors. Prof. Agarwal won MIT's Smullin and Jamieson prizes for teaching.