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Summary: Student in despair
Review: After the warm review by my Analog IC Design professor, I expected this book to be MUCH better. The material is explained well, but as a textbook, the Razavi text leaves much to be desired. Chapter two has 28 problems at the end of the chapter. Most are proofs or symbolic manipulations to obtain plots that exist as functions of three or more parameters.As a student, I feel that working out several pages of algebra is somewhat tedious when more concise questions may be devised that grant equal understanding of the material. In short, the reading is easy, but the problems have this honor student ducking for cover.
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Summary: More of a Reference book than a text book.....
Review: Cannot be used as a text book. Quite a lot of material assumes that u have a very good knowledge of analog design. The auhtor tries to put himslef in the the place of the sutdents while writing the book but its no good. Its definitely good for ppl who have been degining analog circuits for a couple of years.
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Summary: Excellent teaching method
Review: I always had trouble developing an intuitive understanding of CMOS but this book works like a wonder potion. It not only gives you solid understanding but also makes you a guru in design. While discussing devices, circuits and various topologies, the author makes worthy comments about what would happen if device sizes were changed or the current derive changes etc. Overall, I think it can be both an excellent reference book as well as a text book for advanced classes.
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Summary: Good book on CMOS analog circuits!
Review: I have all of the books written by Dr. Razavi, and this is the most recent one. CMOS has been the mainstream on analog design today, and more and more books cover this area. From Roubik Gregorian / Gabor Temes's "Analog MOS Integrated Circuits for Signal Processing" to Phillip Allen / Douglas Holberg's "CMOS Analog Circuit Design", from David Johns / Kenneth Martin's "Analog Integrated Circuit Design" to Roubik Gregorian's "Introduction to CMOS OP-AMPs and Comparators", we can see the rapid development of CMOS analog design techniques. And this book is the most updated one among these books. It covers basic CMOS design techniques as well as some important topics, such as common-mode feedback and current feedback amplifiers. Everything is expressed clearly and easy to understand. However, it does not address some of today's popular topics, such as low-voltage design techniques, constant-Gm and rail-to-rail amplifiers. Hope we can see these in the final edition. The readers can find these topics from Johns/Martin and Gregorian's books. Anyway, I still rate it as a 5-star book.
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Summary: Not for the beginner.
Review: I went to the same school as the author of this book, and so it was used for my introductory CMOS design class. The book has a lot of great material, but it was rather confusing to me as a beginner. Now that I'm a more seasoned designer, I can look back on this book as an excellent reference, but I STILL find the explanations somewhat confusing. It's clear that the author is a foremost expert on the subject, but he just has some trouble relaying the fundamentals to the novice designer.
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Summary: Everyone loves it
Review: I've seen one or two other books on analog design, and this is the best. In fact, almost everyone I know (who does analog design) loves the book. Very good information, well explained, good examples. I wish more books were like this.
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Summary: Everyone loves it
Review: I've seen one or two other books on analog design, and this is the best. In fact, almost everyone I know (who does analog design) loves the book. Very good information, well explained, good examples. I wish more books were like this.
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Summary: The best CMOS book out there.
Review: If you really want to understand the fundamentals of CMOS design, and would like someone to break down the complexity and mystery of concepts like output resistance, transconductance, feedback, operational amplifiers, frequency response, closed and open loop gain, etc., into simple qualitative understandings before progressing to the more complex mathematics, and to do all of this in an order that makes sense and that places the right emphasis on the right material at the right time to maximize learning and minimize confusion, then this is your book. CMOS is complex enough, without an author excacerbating the problem by being disorganized in the presentation of topics, taking excessive liberties in assuming preexisting knowledge by the reader, and placing unecessary emphasis on topics that don't mandate it. Other CMOS books I have read are needlessly complex and serve only to confuse the reader and raise more questions. This book, in contrast, is an outstanding resource that provides skills, insights, and examples, logically arranged in the right order. Nice job, Behzad.
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Summary: Not for beginners/students
Review: If you're learning this material for the first time, your best bet would be to look elsewhere. I'm taking a course in analog CMOS design after completing an introductory course in electronic devices. I can refer to the Razavi book and actually find it to be quite useful. In fact, it seems better than the book we're using for the class, (CMOS design by Allen) But when I first bought this book, which was required for the introductory class, it was not helpful at all. The material was too brief, examples too difficult and not explained in detail, problems were too long and onerous so that you completely lose sight of what you're supposed to get a grasp on. An absolute disaster if you're trying to learn this stuff. That's why it sat on my shelf for the whole semester. But for the advanced class, this book seems to pick up right after the introductory course. Definitely not for the novice reader, and it covers the advanced topics that you don't see when you first learn this stuff. Razavi's writing style and presentation is pretty good too.
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Summary: excellent book on CMOS VLSI design and circuit analysis
Review: Not many book around discussing analouge circuit design using CMOS tech, and this book offers reader with a new and fresh prespective of circuit design, compared with so called 'bible' like Paul & Gray analog IC design book. Mostly dealing with basic building block and circuit analysis, and the so called circuit "synthesis" is quite comprehensive and clear to follow. Lots of problem to solve and good for mind excercises. Good stepstone for book like Analog VLSI: Signal and Information Processing by Mohammed Ismail, Terri Fiez This is the preview edition. Hope in the 'finalised' edition, the authour will include answers/ solutions to the problems.
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