This edition combines the consideration of metal-oxide-semiconductors (MOS) and bipolar circuits into a unified treatment that also includes MOS-bipolar connections made possible by BiCMOS technology. Contains extensive use of SPICE, especially as an integral part of many examples in the problem sets as a more accurate check on hand calculations and as a tool to examine complex circuit behavior beyond the scope of hand analysis. Concerned largely with the design of integrated circuits, a considerable amount of material is also included on applications.
This book is fucking awesome. The presentation is crystal clear and the derivations are elegant. The only flaw is the last chapter on fully differential amplifiers, written by two *new* authors - neither of whom teaches at Cal Berkeley. They teach at freaking DAVIS.
Bastards. The last bit is just too damned hand-wavey.
Anyway. I would recommend this to anyone with a transister fetish and a love of differential equations.
Again borrowed this for my final year project. A good reference book with lots of details on op-amps. One of the feature that really impressed me was every circuit/concept was followed by both its BJT and MOS implementation, instead of treating them in separate chapters. In this way, we can compare the performance of both in the same chapter.