Designed with undergraduate students in mind who are likely to take only one course on this -Prepare them for industry -Impart fundamentals and provide a roadmap for life-long learning -Provide breadth and depth in less than 250 pages -Based on feedback from over 350 faculty members at workshops in 1991, 1994, 1997, 1998, 2002 and 2003. The CD-ROM accompanying this textbook has the following unique - Prepared Lecture Slides with Examples (great for students too!) - PSpice 9.1 student version ready-to-install (nothing to download or order) - PSpice-based realistic Examples and Problems - contains hardware lab setups and the measured (NOT simulated ) waveforms. Comparison with other Textbooks on this - Only 248 pages allow coverage from front-to-back in one semester - Prepared (ready-to-run) Examples on the CD can be easily modified for assigning realistic homework problems - Prepared Lectures Slides save instructors valuable preparation time - Actual Hardware Lab measured waveforms make it real (next best to having lab setups in your school) - Total Experience – What is Power without Control?