This book addresses tradeoffs and optimization of device and circuit performance for selections of the drain current, inversion coefficient, and channel length, where channel width is implicitly considered. The inversion coefficient is used as a technology independent measure of MOS inversion that permits design freely in weak, moderate, and strong inversion.
This book details the significant performance tradeoffs available in analog CMOS design and guides the designer towards optimum design by describing:
Tradeoffs and Optimization in Analog CMOS Design is the first book dedicated to this important topic. It will help practicing analog circuit designers and advanced students of electrical engineering build design intuition, rapidly optimize circuit performance during initial design, and minimize trial-and-error circuit simulations.
David Binkley is currently Associate Professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, a post he has held since 2000. He teaches a number of courses in analog, mixed-signal, and RF integrated circuit design, and received the Tau Beta Pi "Most Influential Teacher of 2001" award for the college of engineering. He has a wealth of experience in the field of analog and mixed signal engineering, having been a practising engineer for over 20 years and having co-founded Concorde Microsystems in 1992 where he and colleagues developed custom, mixed-signal CMOS (complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor) integrated circuits. Previous to this, he was a senior scientist at CTI/Siemens PET Systems engaged in research and design of circuits for PET medical imaging tomographs. David has also been the principal investigator on a number of research projects receiving support from NASA JPL for micropower, analog CMOS circuits, and DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) for design and testing methodologies for mixed-signal integrated circuits. He has published over 60 papers and regularly gives short courses on optimizing analog CMOS design.