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>
> Sorry my answers sounds more like "Zen and the Art of Circuit Design", but
> there is no esacping the need for being able to visualize the voltages
> (pressures) and currents (flow) and how all the components react to them.
> In the end there is a strong component of intuition and "lore" from
> experience that I find hard to describe.


Good description.

I've always called it "seeing the shape of the circuit", and it's somewhat
similar to pseudocode.

>From the basic requirements, I know the big parts, like I need an op-amp
here, a mosfet there, and so on.
Resistors and other passive components get planted where they need to be.
Later, I refine this by actually calculating the required values, though in
a lot of cases no real "calculation" is needed, since the values aren't all
that critical, or the ratio of the values is far more important than the
actual values.
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