Analog Circuit Design

Design of Analog CMOS Integrated Circuits (Behzad Razavi)

Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits  (Paul R. Gray, Paul J. Hurst, Stephen H. Lewis, Robert G. Meyer)

CMOS Circuit Design, Layout and Simulation (R.J. Baker, H.W. Li and D.E. Boyce)

Description:

Its a very good comprehensive book which encompasses analog design (from practical perspective) and also the layout considerations and caveats. A book worth keeping as a reference when working on some practical project.

Analog Integrated Circuit Design (David A. Johns and Ken Martin)

Description:

up-to Chapter 6 is useful, beyond that is painful.

CMOS analog Circuit Design (Allen HolBerg)  (Get it Online Free!!!)

Description:

 Ok bit outdated though.

Network Analysis ( Van Valkenburg)

Logical Effort (Ivan Sutherland, Sproull, David Harris)

Digital Systems Engineering - By Dally & Poulton

Description:

This book has good information about system level design issues, mainly related to electrical characteristics. It provides important information to system level designers and micro-architects.
This book is must for students who are interested in Digital/ASIC design. While whole book is very informative and covers a range of topics, following chapters are more relevant to ASIC designers.

Chapter 9 - Discusses the fundamentals of timing conventions
Chapter 10 - Signal Synchronization
Chapters 11 and 12 - Circuits for signaling and timing (Good to know)

Contact Vipin Agrawal if you need more details about this book.

DRAM Circuit Design (B. Keeth & R.J. Baker)

Description:
A very handy book to take a quick look at DRAM design (a highly commodity chip design). There are very few books which gives a little insight to DRAM design. Should be in the library for quick reference. Will give more book info on high speed and low power arena for CMOS design.

Computer Architecture A Quantitative Approach (John L Hennessy & David A Patterson)

Description:

It explains the processor design fundamentals in depth.

See MIPS Run (Dominic Sweetman)

Description:

 A good book to understand MIPS processor architecture for software engineers.

An Embedded Software Primer, by David E. Simon.

Description:

Very good book for intial concepts for embedded software.

The design of the UNIX operating system, by Maurice J. Bach

Description:

Gives good understanding of UNIX,standard book.

Understanding the linux kernel, by Daniel P. Bovet & Marco Cesati

Description:

Linux is very famous because source code is freely available. And this book gives a good idea about linux kernel. Linux source code provides you the option to learn about embedded programming, operating system design and implementation, network programming and much more.

• Feyman vol III  - For a beginner ... not at all in postulatory format ... builds up the subject intutively but assumes thousands things on the way)

• Cohen Tannoudji - good book written in postulatory form -- easy to read

• Shankar  - again postulatory but sometimes uses terminologies which are not very handy

• Von Meumann's Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics ... masterly written book .. as this is 1950 book ... notations are little older. Great book to understand the meaning of measurements in quantum mechanics.

Solid State Physics by Aschcroft and Mermin.

Description:

Very standard, masterly written text book. Little advanced but well organized (not chronological but logical). Little background in qunatum mechanics is assumed.
Much better than more popular and older Kittel text book.

Thermal Physics by Kittel and Kromer.

Description:

Excelent book about thermodynamics from quantum theory perspective. Its better if you have background in conventional thermodynamics before your read this. Build up logic behind Fermi/Bose distributions, Bose condensations etc.

• Transport theory book by Mark Lundstrom (single most important book for EE grads want to study transport properties in semiconductors in details)

• Supriyo Dutta's Quantum Phenomenon -- he is mentor of Lundstrom and Lundstrom book is based on this it seems; Electronic Transport in Mesoscopic Systems by Supriyo Dutta, little advanced book targeted for EE background reader.

Haken's quantum field theory in solids ... if you want to understand condensed matter properties like optical/electrical/magnetic properties in details you need to go through field theory and this is the book which is easiest to read.

Robert Pierret, "Semiconductor Device Fundamentals", Addison-Wesley. Its an excellent book for undergraduates. Much better than more popular book in India -- Streetman.

Pierret has written and/or edited many more smaller books on separate topics -- called Modular Series on Solid State Device and includes for example Volume I: Pierret, "Semiconductor Fundamentals" Volume II: Neudeck, "PN Junction Diode" Volume III: Neudeck, "Bipolar Junction Transistor" Volume IV: Pierret, "Field Effect Devices" besides books oh Quantum Theory (by Supriyo Dutta), a book on Transport theory (by Lundstrom) etc. All of them a are worth reading. All of them are easy to read books as well. (This Purdue group is pretty well known for their work in Devices)

S. M. Sze, "Physics of Semiconductor Devices", Wiley -- still remains a "must read" book for anyone who wants to expertise on device physics. Forst go through Pierret though.

Nicollian and Brews, MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Physics and Technology is an excellent adavanced level book solely dedicated for MOS Capacitor structure (not transistors). First couple of chapters are worth reading for undergrads.

S. L. Chuang, Physics of Optoelectronic Devices is excellent (and probably best) book on modern optoelectronic device physics. Some background on Quantum Mechanics is assumed in the book.

Heterostructure lasers by Horace Craig Casey and M B Panish is an extremely old book but still fun to read for undergrads at least. (its two volumes - very thin books)

Wave mechanics applied to semi-conductor heterostructures by G. Bastard is an excellent book for understanding basic quantum concepts involved in modern hetrostructure optoelectronic devices.

William Liu, Fundamentals of III-V Devices: HBTs, MESFETs, & HFETs/HEMTs is an excellent book for high speed devices based on III-V technology. Extremely readable.

At the end, library should download and keep the technical manuals of "ATLAS" a device simulator from Silvaco and "MEDICI" another device simulator from Avant!. Both of these technical manuals are the BEST sources of information about modern device physics. Very readable.