Fundamentals of Microelectronics

by Behzad Razavi

Fundamentals of Microelectronics, 3 rd Edition, is a comprehensive introduction to the design and analysis of electrical circuits, enabling students to develop the practical skills and engineering intuition necessary to succeed in their future careers. Through an innovative “analysis by inspection” framework, students learn to deconstruct complex problems into familiar components and reach solutions using basic principles. A step-by-step synthesis approach to microelectronics demonstrates the role of each device in a circuit while helping students build “design-oriented” mindsets. The revised third edition covers basic semiconductor physics, diode models and circuits, bipolar transistors and amplifiers, oscillators, frequency response, and more. In-depth chapters feature illustrative examples and numerous problems of varying levels of difficulty, including design problems that challenge students to select the bias and component values to satisfy particular requirements. The text contains a wealth of pedagogical tools, such as application sidebars, chapter summaries, self-tests with answers, and Multisim and SPICE software simulation problems. Now available in enhanced ePub format, Fundamentals of Microelectronics is ideal for single- and two-semester courses in the subject.

Genres: Textbooks, Engineering

960 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2006

Reviews

[mysteredgar · Rating 4 out of 5]

I have read sedra-smith,gray-hurst and now razavi.I found the last one by far the best book to understand microelectronics. Although it hasn't the reputation of the sedra-smith book,It has more practical problems and gives a good intuition into how microelectronics circuits work.

[Ali Frz · Rating 3 out of 5]

سه ترم متوالی خوندم;)
آخرشم هیچ چیز نفهمیدم!

[A · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent complementary textbook on transistor circuits

[Justin Cheung · Rating 5 out of 5]

Beautifully well-balanced read. As someone who never understood transistors from a purely physical treatment, this book's circuit theoretic approach focused on reasonable approximation justified with strong connections to easily-understood applications was a godsend. It was a highlight of my time as an undergraduate to finally simulate a practical voltage amplifier system under reasonable input/output-oriented constraints using the tools this book provides. This is the best book I read in my electrical engineering education, and I would recommend it to any electrical engineer!

[Mehdi Safarpour · Rating 5 out of 5]

The easiest to understand book on electronics.

If seemed too hard, just ignore device physics chapters and jump straight to circuit analysis.