Which book is better to start with?

[sharas]

Hi,

I am an EE graduate with basic background in analog design ( I designed a BGR for my graduation project). I want to dive deep into it and my question is: which book is better to start with:
"Cmos circuit design, layout and simulation" by Baker or Razavi's book?

The reason I am limiting the question to these two, is that those are the books I have solutions to (although I do have access to Gray&Meyer and Martin's).


Thanks for your advice,

Sharas

 

[Alles Gute]

Razavi's book is more basic

 

[manissri]

book bye allen holberg and the book by razavi

 

[ASICK]

razavi and John&Martin are probably the best. the discuss most of the basic analog circuits

 

[rebel]

razavi definetly

 

[sharas]

Thanks for the advice,

I guess there is concensus about Razavi.

 

[starcoming]

Book by P.R GRAY is classic.

 

[sharas]

Taking into account that Meyer is classic - what is the bottom line?
Is it better then Razavi?

Razavi only handles CMOS analog. Those of you who are working as analog designers - is it realistic? Isn't it dangerous to interview for an analog design position if I only mastered Razavi? What do you analog designers expect from a young applicant to know?

I will be thankfull for your answers.

 

[rebel]

allen holberg is also a good one..

Added after 2 minutes:

95% of the market is cmos, so dont worry abt. that.
ur basics shud beclear, thats all what they want and whether u can apply ur knowledge to simple problems

 

[mince]

Gray's book is my favorite. He teaches you the intuitive way to look at a circuit to find out which parts of the circuit have little effect and which parts have lots of effect. This is a good thing to know when doing stuff by hand.

 

[sharas]

allen holberg is also a good one..

Added after 2 minutes:

95% of the market is cmos, so dont worry abt. that.
ur basics shud beclear, thats all what they want and whether u can apply ur knowledge to simple problems

Thanks, I'll keep that in mind while studying.

 

[playdc2002]

"Cmos circuit design, layout and simulation" by baker is better for starter.

 

[lichengcao]

Razavi's book is better for starter

 

[pradeep_bits]

Razavi is better to start with....
We in our institute follow the same....

 

[timer]

you can download the solns for grey meyer from

 

[pk3316]

Both books are good book, just wait us to spend time to learn.

 

[nani]

allen is the best book . certain chapters like cmos opamp are really good

 

[truebs]

Razavi is certainly the best book to start with.

 

[Robert Qi]

in my opinion, you'd better start with Razavi's book

 

[Pipeline]

I think, Baker's book covers more things, digital, analog and mixed-signal, but there is not deep analysis. Razavi's book is on the other hand.