But it's an intro book. No single text can cover the introduction for the range com people with no background to people designing cutting edge circuitry. At some point you need a BS or MS in EE of course, but at this point you're out of the realm of AoE.
I heard one guy who I used to work with criticize AoE for having an 'incorrect' circuit (I think it was some kind of differential amp). It turns out that this guy had a MS in EE, and was designing a low-noise amplifier to work in GHz range and complaining that the AoE circuit diagram, which was only meant probably up to a few MHz tops, didn't account for some source of thermodynamic noise from the silicon transistors. Or something like that, long ago. Point is, if you're at that level of expertise you should not be using an intro book. The fact this guy even thought to use AoE speaks volumes of just how useful it really is.
I heard one guy who I used to work with criticize AoE for having an 'incorrect' circuit (I think it was some kind of differential amp). It turns out that this guy had a MS in EE, and was designing a low-noise amplifier to work in GHz range and complaining that the AoE circuit diagram, which was only meant probably up to a few MHz tops, didn't account for some source of thermodynamic noise from the silicon transistors. Or something like that, long ago. Point is, if you're at that level of expertise you should not be using an intro book. The fact this guy even thought to use AoE speaks volumes of just how useful it really is.