About our author The late Thomas L. Floyd had a master's degree in electrical engineering (SMU) and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering (UF). He worked as a design engineer at Texas Instruments and senior engineer at Martin-Marietta (now Lockheed-Martin). In addition he had five years' experience teaching and serving as department head of the Electronics Technology program at Valencia Community College Orlando FL as well as five years teaching electronics technology at Mayland Community College Spruce Pine NC. Since 1975 Floyd had written textbooks in electronic technology including Digital Fundamentals; Principles of Electric Circuits; Electronics Fundamentals; Electronic Devices; Electric Circuit Fundamentals; Digital Fundamentals: A Systems Approach; Digital Fundamentals with PLD Programming; Fundamentals of Analog Circuits: A Systems Approach; Science of Electronics: Digital Analog Fundamentals; Basic Operational Amplifiers and Linear Integrated Circuits; DC/AC Fundamentals: A Systems Approach; and Renewable Energy Systems. . Language: English