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Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits (4th Edition)
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Author: Paul R. Gray, Paul J. Hurst, Stephen H. Lewis, Robert G. Meyer
List Price: $115.95
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ISBN: 0471321680
Publisher: Wiley Text Books (15 February, 2001)
Edition: Hardcover
Sales Rank: 95,704
Average Customer Rating: 4.32 out of 5
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Customer ReviewsRating: 5 out of 5
This book is the BIBLE for a student in microelectronics...
I'm a student in electronics, 3-rd year and this is the year I had to choose my speciality.. so I choose: Microelectronics.And so i discovered this book. Although what i have at home is a translation made in 1983 is one of the most ussefull books in this field I ever layed my hands on. I'm looking forward for an oportunity to buy the newest (4-th, I think) edition of this book, although books like thees are pretty hard to find in Romania. The bottom line is:
I reccomend this book to anyone in this field of study, and why not work... My teachers reccemndet me this book and now I thank them...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Tops on the subject
Required reading, I would think, for anyone in the business, or studying to get into the business, of design & development of analog IC's. If you haven't already been introduced to this book, better make it a part of your library.
You'll find good stuff on:
Large & small signal BJ & MOS transistor models,
An informative chap. on IC technology & construction,
Good chap. on current mirrors & active loads,
Several chaps. on amps. including a detailed analysis of 741,
Good info. on frequency response & analysis of IC opamps.,
Chaps. on feedback & stability of IC opamps,
A lot of attention to MOS technology throughout,
Loads of transistor equations & useful approximations.Also there's other material which should interest anyone in analog circuit design, including discrete design. There's even an interesting chap. on circuit noise, which for me had been a subject with about as much sex appeal as Thermodynamics. Be forwarned, this isn't for the novice circuit designer. It's a rather rough trudge to make your way through the book. But as far as I'm capable of critically reviewing, this is a very well written book with very few errors (4th edition). There're a few quirks here & there. For example they introduce their own symbols for MOS transistors (as if we don't have enough), over play SPICE as "an integral part of many examples", & make stability analysis witht Bode plots (Bode not credited) more complicated than need be. However, these are trivial when compared to the overall work. I would therefore give the authors a resounding 5 stars. However, I can't do so for the version of the book which I received. I bought the book for self-study purposes. I was very disappointed to find 20 to 40 problems @ the end of each chap., but with NO answers! I assume this is the decision of the publisher. It's one thing not to include problems in a book (as in a thesis or paperback), but quite another to include problems (as in a "textbook") without any answers to those problems. So, look elsewhere first, if you're looking for a self-study aid on the subject.
Rating: 5 out of 5
New Bible: More CMOS circuitry & High-frequency related!
Definitely a great book for beginners as well as for experienced engineers! I find the following chapters extremely useful for my design work: Chapter 2, 6, 7, 9, 11 and 12. Nowadays, many analog designers are required to have good understanding of high-frequency (e.g. RF) behaviors of the circuits. You will get a feeling of what this trend means while you're reading this textbook. Buy it, read it carefully, and sell it to someone in a lower price when you've done!
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