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Summary: A lot of room for improvement
Review: After spending sometime reading this book, I find that this book still has a lot of room for improvement. This book does not have any proof on all the results that it states. It lacks all the required basic concepts and skips some important topics (IMHO). Nevertheless, it shows a lot of state of the art circuits and applications. This book is great as a reference book if you consider yourself an expert on ADC. There are a lot of mathematics without any detail proof. For a hundred dollar, I am expecting the author to do some work rather than trying to make some quick money. I am returning my copy.
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Summary: This is a race car, not a Yugo
Review: This book is written for the advanced IC designer and systems engineer (practicing engineer or smart grad student.) It's not for the novice. It introduces all the analog-to-digital conversion and sigma-delta concepts, but it assumes you know basic concepts like how to design an op amp and how MOS transistors work. If you don't, it's better to start with Grey & Meyer or with Razavi's introductory books. The publisher, Kluwer, prints a lot of PhD dissertations - which is what this book looks like.If you have a good foundation in the basics of modern electronics, you'll learn a lot about sigma-delta and low power analog design. Otherwise, you should concentrate on the fundamentals before moving on to this level of material.
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Summary: Excellent intro to sigma-delta and lots of practical advice
Review: This book takes the reader through a step-by-step intro to sigma-delta modulation. It's full of practical hints on design and testing of A/D converters. It also has a thorough discussion of noise in switched-capacitor circuits and compares the switched-cap technique with continuous-time and switched-current. It's a great reference book for all analog, mixed-signal and switched-capacitor designers, not just those interested in sigma-delta modulation.
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