Product Description
After years of anticipation, respected authors Phil Allen and Doug Holberg bring you the second edition of their popular textbook, CMOS Analog Circuit Design. From the forefront of CMOS technology, Phil and Doug have combined their expertise as engineers and academics to present a cutting-edge and effective overview of the principles and techniques for designing circuits. Their two main goals are:
DT to mix the academic and practical viewpoints in a treatment that is neither superficial nor overly detailed and
DT to teach analog integrated circuit design with a hierarchically organized approach.
Most of the techniques and principles presented in the second edition have been taught over the last ten years to industry members. Their needs and questions have greatly shaped the revision process, making this new edition a valuable resource for practicing engineers.
The trademark approach of Phil and Doug's textbook is its design recipes, which take readers step-by-step through the creation of real circuits, explaining complex design problems. The book provides detailed coverage of often-neglected areas and deliberately leaves out bipolar analog circuits, since CMOS is the dominant technology for analog integrated circuit design. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates and graduate students with background knowledge in basic electronics including biasing, modeling, circuit analysis, and frequency response, CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Second Edition, presents a complete picture of design (including modeling, simulation, and testing) and enables readers to design an analog circuit that can be implemented by CMOS technology.
Features
DT Orients the experience of the expert within the perspective of design methodology
DT Identifies common mistakes made by beginning designers
DT Provides problems with each chapter that reinforce and develop student understanding
DT Contains numerous problems that can be used as homework, quiz, or exam problems
DT Includes a new section on switched-capacitor circuits
DT Includes helpful appendices that provide simulation techniques and the following supplemental material:
A brief review of circuit analysis for CMOS analog design
A calculator program for analyzing CMOS circuits
A summary of time-frequency domain relationships for second-order systems

CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.5 based on 9 reviews)

very good book

I have first edition of this book when I was graduate student more than 10 years ago. First as xerox version, but I bought the real version because I want to study how to design the compensation network to compensate for simple 2-stage op-amp. I think I have seen second edition of this book, it have many additional detail of how to design other type of operational amplifier. I am not sure second edition describe what is common-mode feedback circuit and how anyone need it for fully differential op-amp design. I think this text do not describe how much different between hand analysis and design and HSPICE design. Especially, parameters such as pole-zero position of the op-amp
April 21, 2008

It is a good book

It could be a very good introductory book for the subject. It has plenty of examples and end of chapter problems. It has a lot of graphs, diagrams...etc. I think it is better than the Behzad book, at least as an introductory book on the topic. It is well written in an easy to read style, similar to Sedra and Smith. It is a good one. One thing I do not like about it, is its treatment of SPICE. It deals with SPICE as if it is the same old text based program. I would have liked it better if it had dealt with it in a graphical way.
November 12, 2006

Essential for Circuit Designers

Dr. Allen estalished methodological analysis and design principles of CMOS analog circuits, especially in op amps and filters. As the author's publicity tells, this book (and 1st edition) turned a magic of analog circuits and systems to straight forward design flow. As an analog and mixed signal designer, this book is always within my reach on the desk.
January 22, 2006

Very Good Analog IC Design Textbook but not Gray and Meyer

Allen & Holberg is a book you should add to your library if you are a mixed signal designer or applications engineer. It is particularly strong in switched capacitor circuits (ch 9) and A/D and D/A conversion circuits (ch 10). It is weak on high speed analog design, and weak in developing the intuition needed for analog design, something Gray and Meyer spends time on. I feel that the text reads much better than Razavi. go to www.aicdesign.org for the book errata.
November 17, 2005

excellent book

It is an excellent reference book for the Cmos designers and wannabes, it is a very easy follow through and has very detailed examples, very good.
September 21, 2005

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