March 2009
Intermediate to advanced
576 pages
17h 24m
English
At first I had a good chuckle over the apparently self-cancelling title of Marc Thompson’s book Intuitive Analog Circuit Design. If there was ever a technology that’s nonintuitive to anyone with an EE degree minted in the last 30 years, it’s analog. Analog has long been the domain of old, bearded guys in back cubicles who handcraft the analog portions of your project and hand over black-box GDSII that you pray works with the rest of your design. Now that almost all new designs are analog/mixed-signal (AMS), you need to know more about this formerly black art. But making it “intuitive” is asking for a lot. Thompson pulls it off.Crafting analog circuits reliably in silicon is a tricky business, but modeling and ...