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Message started by ray.deng on May 26^th, 2010, 7:48am

Title: where to start?
Post by ray.deng on May 26^th, 2010, 7:48am

Hi, glad that I could find this website. Basically I'm a new guy to analog circuit design. I think I'm interested in that but I don't have any experience previously (maybe a bit knowledge on CMOS). What I want to know is to have an overview about this domain so that I can plan my learning strategy. I'm thinking to take some courses next quarter to learn the basic concepts of analog design but I'm afraid this is far from enough. Therefore, it's better that someone can tell me where to start and which direction I should go, such as what books I should read in a particular sequence and what kind of programming language I should know or get familiar with. Please be specific and thanks in advance.

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by ray.deng on May 27^th, 2010, 6:32am

Nobody say something?

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by ywguo on May 27^th, 2010, 8:15am

This is what your advisor in school ought to tell you. This is a forum that we talked about specific technical issues.

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by mowiehowie on May 27^th, 2010, 8:38am

Baker's book, CMOS - Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation

that's the best kick off

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by AnalogDE on May 27^th, 2010, 11:53am

Read any of the books by Baker, Grey&Meyer, Razavi for the basics.

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by AdrianSN on Jun 5^th, 2010, 9:40pm

I have a list of books on my website MasteringElectronicsDesign.com under the section "Expand your knowledge". You can find there books at different levels from beginner to advanced analog designer. Hope this helps.

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by Frank Wiedmann on Jun 7^th, 2010, 12:18am

And of course there is a pretty comprehensive commented list on this site at http://www.designers-guide.org/Books/ in case you have not found it yet.

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by buddypoor on Jun 7^th, 2010, 5:18am

Here is another advice:
Start as early as possible with experiments and try to find out how circuits react when you change something (parts values, transistor or opamp properties).
When I say "experiments", I mean: Software experiments - with other words: Circuit simulation. This is a very efficient way to understand how circuits work. There are a lot of different programs available for free in the net. The most popular is PSpice - and for my opinion it is the best for beginners.
Good luck.

Title: Re: where to start?
Post by Frank Wiedmann on Jun 8^th, 2010, 12:36am

You might also want to take a look at LTspice (http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/). It's free, very powerful and has a very active users' group at http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/LTspice/. There are many tutorials available, see http://www.google.com/search?q=ltspice+tutorial and the files and links sections of the users' group.