Good IC design book (Optic Comm)
General :
This book begins with two chapters that give a good brief overview of the Introduction to Optical Communications and some Basic Concepts necessary for analysis and design. The remaining chapters teach you to design important building blocks of the optical communications(OC)
system. Fig 1.3 in the book is a system topology that guides you to see a big picture of the system or transceiver.
The author recommends that the reader should have a good understanding of analog design
before reding the book and also recommends some textbooks for starters; 1) Design of Analog
CMOS Integrated Circuits by B. Razavi, or 2) Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits
by P. Gray,P. Hurst et al. If you read this book, you might observe that Chapters 6,7,8,9 that relate to oscillators and
PLLs are comprehensive and can give you more details of the topics more than other textbooks
in CMOS circuits design.The obvious reason is that he is also the author or editor of the books
related to PLLs and Clock recovery circuits. Thus these particular chapters are very interesting
in this book. Author's Writing Style:
In each chapter, Razavi usually writes important equations that reasonably explain the
detailed analysis. Although he might not include every detailed step of analysis or calculation,
it should be enough for a student to follow the idea. Busy engineers can skip the details of
equation formulation and use the results or ideas for design decisions. Sentences are well written.
Sentences are mostly concise and clearly explain the concepts. In contrast, authors of some engineering textbooks often use overly complex sentences which normally load the reader's brain
pretty much, especially after some long hours of studies or works. Usually busy engineers like to read something relatively short or concise to only get a particular idea.
Thus, Razavi's book is suitable for both students and busy engineers who want to find a good
reference book in the field to get start or do some works.
Errata: I think, I found some odds(errors). Maybe people who also have the book can help
for checks again.
Chapter 4,Page86 : In Eq.(4.98), in the bracket of third term,gm1 changed to gm2.
Chap.5,P.125 : In Eq.(5.3),left side,there should be No square root in denominator,
otherwise Eq.(5.4) is not correct.
Chap.7, P.227 : Third line from bottom, 10um -> 10fF/um^2
Chap9. P.320 : Figure 9.47,direction of arrow between LPF and the second D flipflop should
be reversed.
Chap.10 P.349 : third line of se.10.2.2 "in its stead" should be "instead".
Contents:
There are 362 pages of contents(not include Index). It is relatively a small book(i.e. a size of 400 pages).
The book is divided into ten chapters, A short list of References is given at the end of each chapter.
