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Analog Circuit Design Textbooks

Posted on November 18, 2010 by circuitdesignworld

There is no better way to learn analog circuit design from the real experts such as Willy Sansen, Behzad Razavi, P.Gray, K.Martin, and Philip Allen, just to name a few. Analog circuit design textbooks written by them are therefore a must have item on the bookshelves.

1. Analog design essentials => The book is presented in slides format, with simple and clear presentation style. These are all based on the extensive amount of teaching that the author has carried out world-wide. The synthesis of op-amps is covered in great detail. Many great chapters on noise analysis, filters design, distortion analysis, ADC/DAC design, and many more.

2. Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits => Look for great materials on this book, especially chapters on op-amp design, PLL design, and noise analysis. The author guide the reader to look at concepts from an intuitive point of view, preparing him/her for more complex problems and complement the intuition by rigorous analysis.

3. Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits => This book has a unified treatment of bipolar and CMOS circuits and extensive use of spice. It has excellent coverage on noise analysis, two-port network analysis, two-stage op-amp compensation, and nested miller compensation.

4. Analog Integrated Circuit Design => This book has a concise treatment of the wide array of knowledge required for integrated circuit design. Excellent coverage on switched-capacitor, ADC and DAC design.

5. CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation => This is a CMOS circuit ‘dictionary’. A very good reference for mixed signal circuit design. Tons of example to guide you through to design a circuit that actually works ! Great coverage on memory circuits, PLL, ADC/ DAC, VCOs and many other mixed signal circuitry.

6. CMOS Analog Circuit Design => Presents a comphrehensive picture of design (including modeling, simulation, and testing) and guides readers to understand the design of an analog circuit that can be implemented by CMOS technology. The level is appropriate for seniors and graduate students.

7. The Art of Analog Layout => Clear guidance and advice for analog circuit layoutist. Divided into many chapters that cover various devices such as Standard bipolar, polygate CMOS and analog BiCMOS. Matching of resistors and capacitors are covered in detail, which includes causes of mismatch, particularly the hydrogen effect and package shift.

8. Tradeoffs and Optimization in Analog CMOS Design => Analog CMOS design is greatly complicated by the design choices of drain current, channel width, and channel length for every MOS device in a circuit, these design choices can greatly affect a circuit performance. The book cover a great detail on how to make a good tradeoffs and optimization in analog circuit design.

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Useful links for Circuit Designer

Posted on November 18, 2010 by circuitdesignworld

1 http://www.eetimes.com/design/analog-design?cid=NL_PlanetAnalog => Include some very good resource on analog circuit design. The “Also of interest” and “Elementals” section has very good resources on some fundamentals theory.

2. http://www.eetimes.com/ => Homepage for the first link. Cover virtually everthing from analog, RF&Microwave, programable logic, signal processing, test and measurement, source code, etc. A must read site !

3. http://www.edaboard.com/ => A very good place for circuit design related issue discussion. It covers EDA software, analog design, digital design, Hardware and PCB design.

4.http://webcast.berkeley.edu/course_details.php?seriesid=1906978451 => Online lecture on circuit design are available for view !

5. http://www.cmosedu.com/ => Another great online resource, include lectures and presentation slides.

6. http://spectrum.ieee.org/ => A free IEEE magazine. Covering area from aerospace, consumer electronics, biomedical, computing, etc.

7. http://ims.unipv.it/ => An excellent site by Laboratorio di Microsistemi Integrati (University of Pavia), led by Prof Franco Maloberti. Some very good free notes to download !

8. http://www.tkt.cs.tut.fi/tools/public/tutorials/synopsys/design_compiler/gsdc.html => A very good tutorial on Synopsys Design Compiler