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CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation

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The best of books say something important, and say it well. CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation by Baker, Li, and Boyce is such a book. Rather than an opinion-free text, it's insight mixed with experience; when something is important, they tell you it's important.

The style is very clear, the copious graphics help explain and cement the ideas, and the numerous worked exercises, which apply the theory just developed, allow the exposition to flow -- it makes sense, the transitions are smooth and well motivated, and there are a lot of very good ideas and clever circuits in the book.

In addition to design, layout, and simulation of digital, analog, and mixed signal circuits (including memory circuits, Schmitt Triggers, PLLs, A2Ds, D2As, and VCOs), there is enough background in device physics to justify the equations underlying the theory.

The exposition is exceptional. The figures are usually on the same or facing page so you can look at what's being described. Derivations are worked out with a wealth of schematics and small signal models. The book is centered on CMOS, so there's no need to translate bipolar designs from earlier classic texts like Gray and Meyer. The treatment is up to date, with recent research results included and explained.

The book is comprehensive, complete, self-contained, and practical; it's anchored in a real process, works with (but does not require) the LASI CAD software, and provides ready access to design information, from the inside front cover summaries to a chapter on extracting parameters from BSIM models for hand calculation through the process and design rules in the appendices.

The only significant omission is a description of metastability, and how to reduce its impact.

This book is a creation of care and craft. It is a joy to read and to review.

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This is an excellent refernce book for analog and mixed-signal CMOS designers. It has numerous examples on all levels (analog, digital, schematics, layout)

Get this book if you want to learn how to design CMOS integrated circuits! It comes with information on downloading free layout and design tools from the web for MS Windows. It integrates the topics of chip layout with analog, digital and mixed-mode design. The discussions are very clear and practical. The writing style is great: discuss a topic and then provide an example.

This text is great for self-study or in a University Class! I work in the semiconductor industry and many of my fellow engineers have commented many times on the value of this book to them. I just wish they would buy their own! Mine is getting worn out. This is one text that is worth every penny!

I think this book is very good for a comprehensive study of CMOS circuit design.It includes almost everything that one needs to know in CMOS.There were a few things I would like to say about it.Though it is a very good book I think if one wants specific knowledge of Layout in CMOS he can use Dan Clein's book,Analog layout Alan Hastings,for Modelling tsividis,analog circuit design razavi,Johns and martins' book on analog circuit design etc....By far it is a good book which has everything in it....but for deeper study one needs other books too.....

Good book for students.....

I've got this book from a friend of mine.
Actually I was looking for CMOS reference/introductory level
book. I found everything I needed and more, from the fundamentals thru Digital design and Analog design.
It has good explanations and SPICE examples to help
understanding and a lot of excercises. The book includes
web addresses where free software - used in the book - can be downloaded from.
Highly recommnended and definitely a "must have" in your library.

This is a great deal for learning about CMOS for the first time. The book is very well written and explains everything well. Also, you have access to great (and free) software to use in the aid of learning the material.

I'm finishing up a video course in analog IC design. This book was recommended to me by a co-worker to help understand the course material. While it wasn't the course textbook (in my opinion it should have been) it did contain all of the course topics. It provided numerous examples and clear discussions. The book's website was invaluable for the solutions to problems and SPICE simulation examples (it also had a free SPICE simulator and a layout program for windows!).

The level of the book is at the senior/graduate level. I recommend that any student interested in custom analog or digital IC design get it. I would also say, from my colleagues input, that it is also a very good reference book.

In summary, it is one of the few books I have purchased with such a hefty price that I felt was worth it!

This book is an excellent learning source for Integrated circuit design. It is written in a manner that is easy to read and uderstand yet still gives a full general overview of the material. No IC designer should be with out this book.

Like any book that tries to cover "everything" it ends up superficial. I have worked in analog design for close to 8 years and I tought at a top analog school in california. I find this book a disappointment. It tries to cover digital CMOS but it fails because it doesn't go into neither high speed implementation artifacts nor state of the art low speed architectures (Use Rabaey or Neil Weste if you're serious about digital CMOS). As for analog design, the book wastes a jungle-worth of paper on layers and layout rules but never goes into the real problems in layout. If you truly want to know about layout, go to the unparalleled reference by Alan Hasting. As for Analog circuit design, the coverage is very shallow and is not useful at all. No real implementation problems and no state of the art coverage. The best analog circuit design books in my opinion are (in order of prefernece) 1: Jones and Martin 2: Gray and Meyer (mostly BJT though) 3: Razavi's Analog circuit design book. Use any of these books if you're serious about circuits. As for Baker's book, I wouldn't recommend it for the serious and I wouldn't pick it for a class I teach. I'm truly surprised that IEEE press would publish this book!!!