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Fundamentals of Microelectronics

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I had the great privilege of taking both of Professor Razavi's undergraduate analog electronic circuits courses and as the first class here at UCLA to use this book, I HIGHLY recommend it!! It is much different than other texts (i.e. Sedra/Smith), in that when teaching many of the topics, the problem is first laid out and more of a design\elimination process is encouraged to solve it. Chapter 5 is on BJTs and forms a very well-rounded and solid basis from which to proceed onto MOSFET technology. End-of-chapter problems are challenging and Prof. Razavi does a great job of helping students develop intuition instead of just a plug-and-chug mentality when dealing with circuit analysis!! Not to mention the price is right!! You definitely won't be disappointed with this purchase and I can't tell you how priceless a resource this has been for me in my undergraduate career!!!

The homework problems in this book are abysmal. Either that, or my professor is deliberately choosing every problem which is poorly defined, over-constrained, or in some other way ambiguous and un-solvable based on the given information. If I hadn't already been a practicing EE for over 5 years and was just taking this course as an undergrad, I would probably be re-considering my choice of career due to the pain and problems encountered while trying to complete homework sets chosen from this book.

The text itself is reasonably clear and helpful, but do not expect to use the given problems to create functional homework sets. It's like somebody went through with a random number generator and changed all the numbers to create a new revision, never bothering to verify that the stated assumptions are still met.

This book may have the most awful problems I've ever seen in a text.

This is an excellent introductory book on analog circuit analysis and design, and as other Razavi's books, it is crystal clear, easy to follow, and has a lots of worked examples. However, as its preliminary version of this book (ISBN 047007292X), I still found many typos in this "official" release of this book, especially in the later chapters, even after I applied the errata provided by the publisher! These typos ruined the quality of this would-be-classic book. I think the author and publisher/editor should be more diligent on posting a new errata and fixing these errors in the new printings.

This is book is so clear and very easy to read and showed many hidden concepts to me , and its better than sedra/smith book ,if you want to read sedra's book,you've to read that book first , its very nice , i would give it 10 stars ! i will buy any book by this author , and i wish he writes another books.

I bought this book for a introductory microelectronics class and I'm very happy. The book starts out with a review on devices then talks about BJT's and MOSFETS. the text is clear and the author shows you many examples to reinforce cocepts.

I like how the author explains the ideas and the concepts clearly through a lot of examples presented progressively.
This is the best undergraduate microelectronics textbook that I have ever read.

Dr. Razavi has written almost all of his books in a very beginner level easy to understand format. This book is pretty much the same. I like reading his books and I would say they rank very high amongst similar books. I liked this book a lot but I was expecting more MOS coverage than Bipolar. Also, since this book came out when technologies have changed considerably, I would have expected it to delve deeper into the small dimension design issues. I understand it deals with fundamentals but fundamentals have changed significantly over the past decade. This material duplicates that found in most other fundamental books albeit presented in a trademark "Razavi" method. I liked the exercises which have some challenging problems and design questions. In a future revision, I hope Dr. Razavi considers adding chapters on modern MOSFET circuit design challenges.

Absolutely the best circuit design book up to and including differential amplifiers and current mirrors. Razavi teaches "by inspection", and after this book, you can glance at any op-amp or single-stage BJT or MOSFET circuit and instantly know the gain, input impedance, and output impedance. This alone is worth the purchase.

There are other topics in the book too though, and they're all covered very well. While this book doesn't cover as much as say, Sedra and Smith or Grey and Meyer, what it does cover is about a million times more clear. The other books are so riggerous and.. stale-tasting, that they'll make you sick. Razavi takes the confusion out of circuits and shows how to make the solutions obvious by inspection. He does show the derivations too, so you can see the theory and reasoning.

Overall, this textbook got myself and several others through our university's two transistor-design courses. I own the other books mentioned above, and they are basically garbage compared to this one. The only down side, the Razavi book doesn't have as good a selection of homework problems, so it's probably not the greatest "textbook", but it is definitely the greatest book for teaching.

Don't hesitate to buy this if differential and cascode circuits confuse you -- the confusion will END when you read this book. It is *the best* book out there for this topic, and you will literally understand these circuits once you read and work out a few problems.

What's not in here: Bandgap reference, more advanced current mirrors... some topics, but once you read and understand the basics, these more advanced designs will become obvious by inspection.

Thank you Razavi.

I have spent quite a bit of money on electrical engineering textbooks, and I have to say that out of the 50 or so that I have, that this book outdoes all of them by far. This author presents the material so clearly that most, if not all of your questions will be answered. The book is super cheap too! I dont get it! This book is priceless...my only gripe is that there are no answers in the back for the homework probs...

I might not have a chance to attend Behzad Razavi lecture because i live far away (Malaysia) and no $$ to study in UCLA Electrical Engineering Department. I have read his book (Fundamental of Microelectronics) and i love this book very much, every single words and statement are written so clear and precise to let you understand. I believe he is a good lecturer.
If one day i became Electronics Designer, ASIC Designer, Analog / Digital Layout Designer, etc in big company, i sure treat him a great dinner / lunch.