"On the engineers' new toolbox" or Analog Circuit Design, using Symbolic Analysis, Computer Algebra, and Elementary Network Transformations

In this paper, by way of three examples - a fourth order low pass active RC filter, a rudimentary BJT amplifier, and an LC ladder - we show, how the algebraic capabilities of modern computer algebra systems can, or in the last example, might be brought to use in the task of designing analog circuits.Comment: V1: documentclass IEEEtran, 7 pages, 6 figures. Re-release of the printed version, with some minor typographical errors correcte