Some Good Books for Analog IC Design (©Fuding Ge)

Some Good Books:
(Pay more attention on CMOS than BJT books)

• CMOS Circuit design, CMOS Circuit Design, Layout, and Simulation, Revised Second Edition, R Jacob Baker, Harry W. Li and David E. Boyce, IEEE Press, 1998 (university of Idaho), TK7871.99.M44B351998. A good book to read. You may not be able to learn lot of theory, but you do learn some circuits you can use. It is a ENGINEER book.

• Analog Integrated Circuit Design, David Johns, Ken Martin, University of Toronto, John Wiley, Inc. A must read classic book on CMOS. Good circuit cook book and circuit theory. The part of Switched-capacitor PLL parts are very good and you must know it.

• Microelectronic Circuits (the latest edition is 4th). Adel S. Sedra, Kenneth C. Smith, Oxford, 1998 (University of Toronto). A very good book! It is for undergraduates, easy to understand and the summery is very good and equation is very insightful. A must-read book before interview.

• CMOS Analog Circuit Design, Phillip E. Allen and Douglas R. Holberg, Published in 1987. A little older but still worth to read. (It has a later edition (2002 ?, but I have not found time to read yet).

• Design of analog CMOS Integrated Circuits, Behzad Razavi, McGraw-Hill, 2001. A textbook used by many schools. It helps you understanding lot of the circuits, but too simple to use in real design. I should say it is a very good theory book. Not ENGINEER book. Anyway IT ALL BEGINS FROM MAXWELL'S
EQUATIONS, RIGHT?

• Principles of CMOS VLSI Design, A System Perspective, Neil H.E. Weste, Kamran Eshraghian, AT&T, 1993

• Fundamental of Logic Design, (Any textbook is OK)

Some Good Books for Analog IC Design (©Fuding Ge)

Some Basic Concepts of Analog IC Design (©Fuding Ge)

Some Basic Concepts you should know before job hounting:

You should grasp the following concepts:

• Gain, (how to improve gain?)

• Bandwidth, (how to improve bandwidth?)

• Feedback,(Stability is a must ask question! Know pole, zero, gain and phase margin!)

• Slew rate,(How to improve slew rate?)

• Offset,(how to eliminate offset? Chopper stabilized circuits, autozero)

• Noise,(what is thermal, flick, shot noise? What are the noises of BJT and MOSFET? (Tell me one way to reduce flick noise)

• Compensation (what is Miller, lead and Lag compensation? Know what is Miller Effects).

• Layout (centroid, interdigital) (how to improve the match of current mirror, differential pairs?

Remember: Same Structure (poly-poly not one is poly-poly another is poly-metal), same temperature, same Shape and size, same orientation (current flow parallel), same surroundings(dummy transistors) and Common-centroid geometry (fingers, interdigitated fingers, what is the purpose of breaking into fingers?))

Suggested Reading: Koen Lampaert, Georges Gielen and Willy Sansen, Analog Layout Generation for Performance and Manufacturability, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999

• Thermal resistance (basic calculation).

• Filter

• Oscillator

• Peak detector

• Frequency divider

• Bandgap Reference

• You also need to know a little bit about testing, for example DFT.

(I will later provide more details for each of the concepts.)

Some Basic Concepts of Analog IC Design (©Fuding Ge)

Recommended Courses to Take for Analog IC Design (©Fuding Ge)

Courses:
You must take the following courses:
• Device physics
• Analog circuits analysis and design
• Advanced analog IC design
• A/D converter
• Digital circuits analysis
• VLSI design
• Filter design
• PLL design
• RF circuit design

You better to take the following courses if Available:
• Semiconductor and device characterization
• VLSI Architecture
• Computer architecture
• VHDL
• Logic Design

(I will find time to provide link to openly accessed course websites/notes later.)

Recommended Courses to Take for Analog IC Design (©Fuding Ge)