The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits

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Summary: A very good book!
Review: A great book from a man with great intuitions. You'll find topics you considered already understood to be very informative and valuable.

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Summary: Great book, maybe not such a great title !
Review: I am an analog / mixed signal / signal processing / RF engineer with 30+ years of design experience. A friend of mine lent me the book. I could not put it down! This book was not purchased with with the expectation of designing RF ICs, hence my minor dig on the title. The book is really a broad band reference covering a wide range of topics including some great history. Professor Lee has created a reference that is only outdone by the likes of Frederick Terman! His humor is also keenly appreciated. The rest of the ivory-tower stuffed-shirts could benefit from a lecture or two by Lee on this topic :-)


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Summary: Not a Cookbook
Review: In regards to the first edition. This book is not a cookbook for design, but more an introductory "textbook", which follows with end of chapter problems. Although, it IS very useful for design. The chapters introducing noise and LNA's are excellent. Good chapters on RF PA'S ,Feedback, and PLL's. It is pretty widely known to be a must have in this subject area. The analysis pushes the envelope and is cutting edge for its time to paper. Look forward to checking out the 2nd edition.

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Summary: This book is a treasure
Review: It was sheer pleasure reading this book, its insightful and practical - particularly the sections on history of some of the inventions. The writer comes out as a master and a guru with lot of enthusiasm about the subject. Another book I considered insightful reading was 'Art of Electronis' by Hayes. I would request readers to point out similarly well-written books so that we could all benefit from these treasures. Again my hats off to the author.

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Summary: This book is a treasure
Review: It was sheer pleasure reading this book, its insightful and practical - particularly the sections on history of some of the inventions. The writer comes out as a master and a guru with lot of enthusiasm about the subject. Another book I considered insightful reading was 'Art of Electronis' by Hayes. I would request readers to point out similarly well-written books so that we could all benefit from these treasures. Again my hats off to the author.

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Summary: below average
Review: Looking through the table of contents of this book and reading the reviews, one is tempted to think that this book will answer a lot of questions on RF design. Unfortunately, it falls very short. This is a gentle introduction to RF design and lacks enough depth to interest a serious RF designer. Several of the important equations and results are simply stated without a fair level of mathematical rigor and that does leave an empty feeling. I gave it two stars because it does cover a broad range of topics and also explains (with it's usual lack of depth) the Hajimiri-Lee phase noise theory. Don't expect to become an expert on RF IC design after reading this book. A better book would be Razavi's Design of Analog CMOS ICs.

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Summary: Excellent introduction to CMOS RF Design
Review: Possibly the most well-written book on CMOS design I have ever read. Relaxed, readable style and an emphasis on core ideas and rule-of-thumb design rules, makes this an extremely useful practical guide, as well as a great introduction to a complex topic. Some excellent advanced material on oscillator design too. I particularly liked the first and last chapters giving a history of radio design - very interesting background. I think the best compliment I can give this book is that I found it difficult to put down - for a circuits textbook, that is truly an incredible achievement!

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Summary: A good book but not deep enough
Review: The book is clear and simple to follow but it's not detailed enough to show the rope.

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Summary: The first chapter alone is worth the money.
Review: The first chapter of this book gives a history of radio design with schematics. The cmos portion gives a good coverage of RF components, smith charts, CMOS inductors, Bandwidth estimation techniques etc. More an RF issues book than a cmos layout book with almost all layout examples being single components. This is an excellent single issue book focused on Radio design specifically CMOS radio design. Those looking for a book focused on CMOS design should buy this book in addition to another.

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Summary: The first chapter alone is worth the money.
Review: The first chapter of this book gives a history of radio design with schematics. The cmos portion gives a good coverage of RF components, smith charts, CMOS inductors, Bandwidth estimation techniques etc. More an RF issues book than a cmos layout book with almost all layout examples being single components. This is an excellent single issue book focused on Radio design specifically CMOS radio design. Those looking for a book focused on CMOS design should buy this book in addition to another.