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As electronics moves rapidly toward very ,extensive use of integrated-circuit arrays, the fundamental operations with linear and nonlinear active elements become of increasing importance. For this reason, primary emphasis continues to be placed on feedback, gain elements, modulation, frequency conversion, oscillation, and logic as relatively independent of active device characteristics. While supplying the physical fundamental s needed for an understanding of solid-state devices, the text remains circuit-oriented. This treatment seems appropriate since device configurations are usually not known in integrated packages; often the performance of such packages is predicted only through a transfer-function specification. Logical ordering of the material has always seemed important to good teaching; the student has a right to expect that new ideas should build on the orderly nature of the field and on material he has just studied. The text has been almost totalIy rewritten to reftect progress in the field. Chapters on integrated circuits and the operational amplifier as a gain element have been added, and thelogic-circuit chapters now reftect the ready availability of logic packages. Treatment of all active devices through the gm model simplifies the device aspects and permits the student to spend more time on the fundamental operations in electronic systems. A grounding in network analysis, including the use of the s transform and pole-zero patterns, is assumed.