CMOS: Mixed-Signal Circuit Design, Second Edition

Excellent introduction to Delta Sigma data converters and the reason to use them over other designs such as Flash or Pipeline or SAR designs.Fairly short however. Combine it with CMOSEDU and you've got a really powerful combination. However to get a much better understanding of Data converters, you'd need to get the other CMOS IC design book from Dr. B, along with one of the other big Analog IC books like from Dr. Ravazi and a good DSP book to round off your knowledge. Finally, I'd also go download the Dataconverters handbook if you are using data converters in your design, the book from Analog Devices freely available from their site.To be clear, you only have an introductory level of understanding into the field of data converters even with all of this. I'm sure there are more advanced versions to look into plus a lot more layout experience in your Big 3 EDA software to get the experience down pat. I'm not a mixed signal IC designer so I don't have to worry about that. For me this is enough.

The author goes over almost all topics relating to the theory and the design of signal processing circuits -- ADC/DAC circuits, and analog/digital filters.Not only does this book cover the theory of all these topics, it also goes over many implementation details. My favorite is the digital filter section which talks about interpolation/decimation filters, and how they are actually implemented -- this is the only book I know that goes over this much detail on these multirate filters.This book also shows many plots (time and frequency domain) as teaching aides to reinforce the concepts. All the spice/simulation files used to generate the plots are available on the book's website.I highly recommend this book to any CMOS mixed-signal designers.

If you want to learn how to use SPICE to simulate mixed mode systems then this book is a great resource. The author does not provide step by step instructions. Instead the author provides a large set of examples to learn from. The examples mainly cover topics like switched capacitor analog filters, digital filters, analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters. You can use either Cadence IC51, Cadence IC61 or LTspice versions of SPICE as examples are provided for all three versions.

A good introductory book for mixed signal circuit design.

Jake writes good books in general, very practical and not too overloaded on complex math. Not that it doesn't include derivations, it's just written in a way for easier reading.

The book was damaged when I received it.

Bought this for some ADC information. Found it very useful.Baker has a great way of explaining things.I would like to see a little more on Incremental ADCs

very good

This text is a good resource for ramping up knowledge on the practical aspects of mixed-signal circuit design and encourages the development of pragmatic analytical skills and intuitive sense. However, as with most academic texts on IC design that dare to balance mathematical elements with practical insight it unfortunately falls a little short. Those of us who do not subscribe to the dictum 'Remember that math is easy' as the author assumes (first page of the Preface) can get a little frustrated when the poles of a quadratic suddenly appear (p.79, Ch3. Analog Filters) amongst a plethora of handwaved expressions. Nonchalant assumptions like this actually work against backing up the otherwise excellent intuitive and empirical approach to MSD that the text attempts to encourage. Overall a good book that can do better with just a little more support for the little math guy with a big heart for IC design.

The book is well structured however it goes a bit into mathematical equations and requires careful reading in order to understand it. It is well explained in most of the topics but you need technical background specially on Z transform. It is a nice book (but not easy to read if you are new on the field).