Sunday, July 07, 2013

So You Want to Be an Analog Designer

Where can you learn this stuff without wasting your time in a university? Note that, at a university, you usually get free access to Cadence. The EE world has not (unfortunately) benefited from open-source the way software has.

Dr. B. Razavi's slides (No guarantee they'll still be there). BTW, Behzad has a nice PPT on his site about what life is like as a professor - I highly recommend it.
Hans (late) Camenzind's book : Designing Analog Chips (inventor of the 555)
Dr. Phillip Allen's course slides (see, he's nice, not like Dr. Leach, who pulled his stuff off)
Dr. Phil Allen's short-course slides (NOTE, in general, I feel the slides are poor-quality from the point of view of presentation, but they're good for documentation - so, my all beans, go through them once then know where to look in future when you want some info. Don't expect to learn from them them easily, the way you can from Behzad. Sorry, Philly, I owe you a cheese bake)
Satish Kashyap's ripoff site - wonder how long this guy can run this. Never mind putting sir (lowercase) at the end of each prof's name to mollify.
Berkeley's EE 240 Adv Analog IC's course lectures. Let me know if they're any good.