Analog Integrated Circuit Design

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Summary: Arbitrariness in Abundance!
Review: This book has strengths and weaknesses, and overall it's just an average book. First 4 chapters present a good overview of device physics and modeling, pratical layout issues, different gain stages and noise analysis and modelling. These four chapters are well written. From chapter 5 on, everything is just a confusing collection of facts, not organized and not well explained. The authors are extremely fond of the phrase "It should be mentioned/ stated that ....", this is a clear indication that the explanations are not well thought out, not at all logically connected to the context. Examples of this is abundant throught. For a textbook, I would recommand Razavi's book, as it gives detailed explanations, and insight into design issues, and this book just pales miserably in comparison. Though this book gives more coverage, but again, the coverage is mere collection of facts. As for a reference book, this book does deserve some merit. Afterall, both authors have had quite extensive experience in circuit design. However, there are much better reference books on specific topics. Overall, the authors did not put an effor into explaining things, but merely put in the phrase "It should be mentioned that...". So again, it should be mentioned that you won't gain insight from this book.

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Summary: It should be mentioned that this is an average book
Review: This book has strengths and weaknesses, and overall it's just an average book. First 4 chapters present a good overview of device physics and modeling, pratical layout issues, different gain stages and noise analysis and modelling. These four chapters are well written. From chapter 5 on, everything is just a confusing collection of facts, not organized and not well explained. The authors are extremely fond of the phrase "It should be mentioned/ stated that ....", this is a clear indication that the explanations are not well thought out, not at all logically connected to the context. Examples of this is abundant throught. For a textbook, I would recommand Razavi's book, as it gives detailed explanations, and insight into design issues, and this book just pales miserably in comparison. Though this book gives more coverage, but again, the coverage is mere collection of facts. As for a reference book, this book does deserve some merit. Afterall, both authors have had quite extensive experience in circuit design. However, there are much better reference books on specific topics. Overall, the authors did not put an effor into explaining things, but merely put in the phrase "It should be mentioned that...". So again, it should be mentioned that you won't gain insight from this book.

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Summary: Up to date and well written book of analog electronics!
Review: This is a very "concrete" and well written book about analog electronics for students and practicing engineers.The choice of arguments is well made and up to date placing a special emphasis on circuits at the analog-digital interface which is really fundamental nowadays.The choice of the authors is to introduce analysis at the most easy level possible,and after having developed the basics of a certain subject present different circuital implementations.Explained examples are extensively used to develop analytical skills of the reader.I think this book is a natural choice once you reach the intermediate to advanced level in analog electronics,Very fine text!

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Summary: Up to date and well written book of analog electronics!
Review: This is a very "concrete" and well written book about analog electronics for students and practicing engineers.The choice of arguments is well made and up to date placing a special emphasis on circuits at the analog-digital interface which is really fundamental nowadays.The choice of the authors is to introduce analysis at the most easy level possible,and after having developed the basics of a certain subject present different circuital implementations.Explained examples are extensively used to develop analytical skills of the reader.I think this book is a natural choice once you reach the intermediate to advanced level in analog electronics,Very fine text!

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Summary: Good Reference Book; But not for beginner
Review: This is an excellent reference book for graduate students/exeperienced engineers. It gives readers a lot of practical tips on designing useful circuits. But sometimes those tips are so practical that a beginner might consider them as distractions. If you are a beginner, I won't recommend this book.

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Summary: Excellent
Review: This is one of the excellent book I have come across in this field. I really liked the way the authors slowly built the concepts. Excellent book for teaching engineers the principles and the art of analog design. I use this book often to see what things are important and what can be ignored (like a back of the envelope calculations) in analog building blocks. Not only recent college graduates but also experience engineers can benefit from this book.

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Summary: Probably the best analog CMOS book out there!
Review: This is probabely the best analog CMOS book out there. It is as intuitive as it can be. Analog design it all about shortcuts because the at length analysis just doesn't cut it. This book is very intuitive and up to the point. The second best book is Razavi's but my favorite always remains Johns and Martin's analog design. Worth every $.