Rating: 
Summary: Sadly disappointed
Review: This book is lacking a great deal of information. First, approximately 60% to 70% deals with bipolar layout techniques, not CMOS which is what I was expecting to find. The common-centroid layout techniques were fairly well explained, but I did disagree on one or two of the matching configurations spelled out. More emphasis could have been given to the layout of pad circuitry for ESD robustness, capacitor matching, guard bars and top-level floorplanning of mixed-signal ASICs. However, I did find the processing chapters good and they hit the main points that are useful in layout.Even though the author attempts to "dumb" the concepts down to make it more useful for general reference, he uses terms that are not common to most layout designers. Case in point: the term "chirality" is used to describe the symmetry of a given layout. Why not use the term "symmetry" which most people are very familiar with? If you're a pro at analog layout, don't bother buying this book expecting to learn something new. Chances are, you know most of what is contained in the book. I wish I would've spent my [money] elsewhere. These views are also shared by my peers who have looked over the book and are well-versed in mixed-signal CMOS layout.
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