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Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits

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I used this book in Grad school almost 20 years ago and still use it. This is the bible for analog design and is the one most widely used for its content and deservedly so. What the book really deserves credit for is teaching the manner of approaching circuit design by back of the envelope calculation. They teach you how to approximate via hand calculation, a very useful skill. They teach you how to become intuitive with circuits, this is the key. Before this book I had been asked to calculate the output impedance of a cascode mirror as an undergrad, it took about 5 pages and resulted in an expression of about 10 terms. Grey and Meyer shows you how to pop this out of a simple expression that contains only 3-4 terms and how to easily recognise the largest term. That is the beauty of this book, it teaches you how to become intuitive in transistor circuit analysis. The coverage is very good wrt the topics covered, most of the major issues are covered, but it is not encyclopedic. The problems are good and not terribly difficult, they are geared towards nailing down the material. The senior authors are both world renowned analog designers and both Fellows of the IEEE. The junior authors are also well known in this field. The writing is clear and to the point and the book has very few typos. There are other good analog IC books coming out now those by Lee, Allen, Razavi, and Johns have made it onto my shelf, but This is the Bible!

This text book should form the core for your analog design library. It has been the main text for two graduate level courses I have taken in analog I.C. design. Treats BJT circuits a little more thoroughly than CMOS; but goes in-depth for both. Excellent reference and textbook; but definitely not a self-study guide (and this is the main reason I did not give it 5 stars).

First of all, this book is not a novel, so don't read it when you are tired or bored. You will definitely fall into sleep!

This is the book you need to read if you have decided you are going to STUDY Analog.

I bought this book because my friend recommended this book as a good analog reference. Later on , it turns out I have two classes use this book as a textbook.

This book is not easy to read. But analog itself is not an easy subject. With my professors' guidence, I was able to understand the book. I was amazed that the amount of material I have learned from this book. This book teachs you the material that a lot of other books skips. For example, offset voltage, most of other books will only describe in one or two paragraph. But this book explained in many sections. And offset voltage is a very important concept in Analog field.

A lot of other students complained the book covers too much stuff. It has fabrication, which can be one course. It has bipolar, CMOS, which can be course. It has feedback system, which can be another control system class. But these are essential concepts you need to know about analog IC. The title of the book is not

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!

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.

I agree that the material is well presented and comprehensive but be aware that much of the derivation is first for bipolar circuits and only secondarily for CMOS, often with reference back to the development of the bipolar counterparts. So unless your interested in delving into bipolar circuits as well as CMOS you may prefer a text devoted to CMOS-only analog IC design.

If you are already familiar with the previous edition of this text, you'll love this edition. Paul Hurst and Steve Lewis have made significant contributions to the 4th Edition to expand the coverage of CMOS analog circuits with coverage of modern circuits used for bias reference circuits and op amps in this technology. An additional chapter was added that also covers the design of fully-differential op amps. The level of detail in intuitive explanation of circuit performance continues to make this book top-notch literature for this field of study. Another superb job by the Authors!

This book goes into a lot of depth in the analysis and design of modern devices in Analog IC's. It does not assume anything and gives the reader insight on how all the models are derived (SPICE, HYBRID-PI etc). It goes into excellent detail for dealing with hand calculations which will give you a first order analysis of the circuit in question (with reasonable accuracy).

I got my original recommendation from other Amazon reviews (5-Star rating) and I whole-heartedly agree with them. If you are serious about Analog IC design, then this book is a MUST for you. It will not remain on your shelf, I promise!

I found this book to be useful for students who are trying to get started with IC design but less useful to the practicing engineer. The Circuits discussed in the book are old and some are not practical to implement in today's IC processes. The Book also fairly touches on simulation using SPICE level 3 models which is very outdated, most IC Designs use BSIM3 as an industry standard. I should also mention the book's strongest section is the one that covers OPAMP compensation, this particular subject is well treated in this book.

It's a very good book but I think you need to have some knowledge of integrated circuit design and analysis before discovering this book.