Tools III/Design techniques: Designer's bookshelf: The experts' choices in five major categories: CAD, design automation, and design techniques for microwave, power, and general systems

With thousands of design books available, covering all the electrical and electronics fields of interest, Spectrum decided to identify some of the top books. The list on these pages is limited to five design areas, chosen because they are related to other articles in this issue. The books were recommended after consultation with experts in computer-aided design and modeling, design automation, general systems design techniques, microwave design techniques, and power systems design techniques and planning. Books in these areas cover (and often overlap) such disciplines as decision review, decision analysis, and pattern matching.