Re: College EE Textbook Recommendations

On 27 Mar 2007 16:46:47 -0700, miso@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

On Mar 27, 10:53 am, Jim Thompson <To-Email-Use-The-Envelope-I...@My-
Web-Site.com> wrote:
On 27 Mar 2007 10:49:07 -0700, m...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

[snip]

Gee, the first revision of Gray and Meyer didn't have any CMOS analog
in it. Low power CMOS analog design books came out later than than.

Time marches on.

Do you need a book to "design"?

All I care about are the device characteristics.

I've never had a course in CMOS, yet I design ASIC's in it daily at
the device level.

Likewise I'm sure I could design a toooob amplifier if I wanted ;-)

...Jim Thompson

I started in MOS linear (as in NMOS, not CMOS) before Gray and Meyer
updated their book. There were plenty of tricks in the ISSCC journals
that were useful, but I would have liked to have it all summed up in a
more "linear" fashion. I don't think education is a waste of time, but
your mileage may vary.

I suppose many of the things in the early papers were easily seen once
your started simulations, such as the right hand plane zero issue in
MOS op amps. Still, why reinvent the wheel?


I find that reinventing the wheel is very educational ;-)

...Jim Thompson
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