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Summary: Good basic design techniques, not quite useful for...
Review: Not quite useful for practicing engineers who are forced to come up with ten building blocks a week, in Spice...
Focusing a little too much on basic conceptual design works, this book will probably make a rockie EE professor's life much easier in preparing for his/her first undergraduate-level CMOS circuit course syllabus, however, most experienced engineers won't be impressed by the "two-transistor-circuitry" that used throughout the book...Moreover, switched-capacitor circuit is not heavily covered, which is a pity for a book claiming to teach people about analog CMOS IC design!
In a word, could be better -- let's wait for the next edition...
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Summary: Insight as Usual
Review: Prof. Razavi retains his characteristic clarity of thought and communication providing insight into the way circuits work, how they need to be biased, etc. I think that the book is very well written and is a must read for any engineer at any level. If analog design engineers can pick up his method of thinking along with the circuits they stand to gain a lot.Also I think his unique way of a calling this a Preview Edition speaks a lot of his interest in putting a useful edition together.
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Summary: A book for designers not students
Review: This is an excellent book for designers who understand the basics
of CMOS devices and want to improve their design skills. Very practical and strait to the point Students who try to use it as a starting book for CMOS will have a hard time following the thought process. A great reference and a must have in any ANALOG DSIGNER's library.
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Summary: Excellent book with a broad coverage of material!
Review: This is an excellent book that provides a fresh look at CMOS Analog Circuit Design. Behzad Razavi has a clear writing style that takes the reader from an intuitive level of understanding circuit performance to a mathematical explantion based on this understanding. This text also covers most areas of modern Analog CMOS design including all variations of modern op amps, switched capacitor circuits, feedback, noise analysis, frequency response, stability and compensation, as well as oscillators and PLLs. The material is covered in context of modern sub-micron processes and includes coverage of short-channel effects in these technologies. I have found answers in this book to many of the questions I have come across recently. In particular, Dr. Razavi uses the examples in the book to characterize various circuit performance metrics for typical circuit configurations using a symbolic approach. This results in an expression that highlights which circuit/device parameters contribute to the particular performance metric under study.
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Summary: Bible of analogy VLSI design
Review: This is my first time to write a review to a book, I have several VLSI book in hand, after I read several chapters of Dr. Behzad's book, I found I have been deeply abstract by the book, I wonder why the author can write out such a good book, so I decide to write this review to let people know: For analogy VLSI this is the best book, beside this book, if want to touch RF VLSI, Dr. LEE's book is best
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Summary: not a good starting point
Review: This is not a good book to start with. The book by Gray and Meyer and Hurst and Lewis is anyday much much better than this book. This book does not care to explain the meaning of small-signal operation and analysis and even such basic important aspects such as biasing and more subtler aspects in later chaters in feedback theory etc etc. It is not at all a good starting point. The excersises are good. Still not at all comparable to analysis and design of analog integrated circuits by gray and meyer...
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