The Art of Analog Circuit Layout

Author: Hastings
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Publish Date: 2004-04-01
Features: This book is a textbook on analog layout design, comprehensive in content and strong in practicality, representing the accumulation and summary of the author's over three decades of research and design experience. The book covers three processes in analog integrated circuit design: standard bipolar process, CMOS silicon gate process, and BiCMOS process. Through these introductions, readers can easily understand other new processes. The book elaborates on many important aspects of layout design, such as ESD and latch in fault mechanisms, matching principles, device combination, guard rings, and high-voltage devices, providing solutions to many practical problems. Additionally, it offers a very concise and easy-to-understand introduction to background knowledge of layout design, including device physics, process, and fault models. The main features of this book are: (1) Strong practicality, based on the author's extensive practical experience, the book discusses many lesser-known mechanisms and effects, introducing cutting-edge knowledge and technologies in the industry; (2) Easy to read and understand, the book contains minimal mathematical content, and readers with basic algebra and fundamental electronics knowledge can comprehend it; (3) For the convenience of readers, the book includes many useful background knowledge; (4) To understand device operation, the author proposes an intuitive model, the carrier-based model, to replace the traditional component-based model; (5) The book also provides a large number of exercises, which can be completed using design software or direct calculations.