Any good books for RFIC in the perspective of CMOS or BiCMOS

[glnofategl]

Hi all, can anyone recommend a good book on RF CMOS

Razavi's RF Microeletronics is Reeeeaaly a good one but it seems it presumes that readers have a firm grasp of CMOS device fundamentals e.g. when talking about the gain of a common-gate circuit it just say it is 1+GmRo; never explain where it come from nor what it means by Gm and Ro.

So I think I need another book about MOS physics to fill this gap. I think "Semiconductor Devices: Physics and Technology" can be an option, though not focusing on RF. And it is too detailed and lengthy.
The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits (Tomas Lee) has a chapter about MOS physics, do you think that is detailed enough?

Or, maybe I should get Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits (Behzad Razavi) instead?

Thx

Bowen

 

[BigBoss]

Jacob Baker's CMOS book is good enough for a beginner who would strengthen his knowledge.

 

[torbai]

Well... If you need some book related to the transistor physics itself... I'm reading Donald A. Neamen's book "Semiconductor Physics and Devices Basic Principles, third edition". It tells you the reason why a transistor will work, and also introduces the basics about diode, BJT, MOSFET, JFET, and heterojuction transistors( HEMT and HBT ) in physics level...

I think you should read "Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits"( also a Razavi's book ) before reading the Razavi's "RF Microeletronics". Although it's a book about ( Low Frequency ) Analog IC, but I think it can answer the question about "1+GmRo"

And there also exists a book "Practical MMIC Design"( Steve Marsh ), it is quite good except for it's mostly based on GaAs

 

[glnofategl]

Many thx. I downloaded the books mentioned above and decided to just print the part for MOS physics. For a couple pages it already answers my questions then allow me to go back to RF Microelecs.
And I actually found another book "Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi" also a good presentation of what I am lack of.
It seems Razavi authored books always get good comments~

 

[BigBoss]

If you need deeper knowledge about CMOS transistors, you can read " Operating and Modeling of the MOS Transistors" ,Yannis Tsividis.
It's the most detailed book about CMOS transistors under the sun..
For Solid State Physics " Physics of Semiconductor Devices" S.M.Sze,Kwok.K.Ng.

 

[Tomsin yin]

hi guys
can u give me the link to download the e- books about RF?

 

[vivek.roy2991]

And I actually found another book "Fundamentals of Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi" also a good presentation of what I am lack of.
It seems Razavi authored books always get good comments~

Yes. This book really teaches you to think intuitively. Although it does not treat second order and bulk voltage effects in details, its still a great book.