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First published in 1996 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.

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Acknowledgments

The material in this book has been tried successfully in various university and industrial courses, starting with an early version in 1990 at Columbia University. I wish to thank all those who read parts of it and gave me useful comments, notably Dimitri Antoniadis of MIT; John Khoury, Ken Suyama, and Charles Zukowski of Columbia University; Franz Dielacher and Bert Seger of Siemens; and Marcel Pelgrom of Philips. Technical discussions with George Hart of Columbia University, George Katopis of IBM, Harry Lee of MIT, Dimitri Paraskevopoulos of National Semiconductors, David Scott...