Ramakant A. Gayakwad ((top)) May 2026

There is a legendary section on "Frequency Response and Compensation" where he explains, with almost painful clarity, why your amplifier is oscillating at 10 MHz. For any engineer who has watched a perfectly good circuit turn into a radio transmitter, that section is scripture. Ramakant Gayakwad is not just a textbook author; he is a silicon veteran. After earning his PhD from the University of Illinois (a program steeped in control theory and solid-state physics), he spent decades inside the crucible of Silicon Valley. He worked at American Microsystems Inc. (AMI) and later at Intel —not as a remote academic, but as a design engineer wrestling with process variations, latch-up, and the brutal economics of chip fabrication.

He is the engineer’s engineer. The writer’s writer. And the most important mentor most of us never met. Have a memory of struggling through a Gayakwad problem set? Or a circuit that only worked because you remembered his advice on offset nulling? Share it in the comments. The man deserves to hear his echoes. ramakant a. gayakwad

His writing style is the antithesis of academic obscurantism. There are no unnecessary Jacobian matrices. There is no "it can be shown that..." Instead, there is a patient, almost Socratic unfolding of concepts. There is a legendary section on "Frequency Response

Enter the first edition of Op-Amps and Linear Integrated Circuits . After earning his PhD from the University of