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Chapter 2: Analog Devices

History of the Transistor:

Pearson, G.L. and Brattain, W.H.: "History of Semiconductor Research", Proceedings of the IRE, December 1955, pp. 1794-1806

Shockley, W.: "The Invention of the Transistor", National Bureau of Standards Publication # 388, May 1974

Shockley, William: "The Path to the Conception of the Junction Transistor", IEEE Transactions on Electron Devices, July 1976, pp. 597-620

Brattain, Walter H.: "Genesis of the Transistor", The Physics Teacher, March 1968, pp. 109-114

 

History of the Integrated Circuit:

Wolff, Michael F.: "The Genesis of the Integrated Circuit", IEEE Spectrum, August 1976, pp. 45-53

Interviews with Phil Ferguson, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner and Robert Noyce, 1983

Reid, T.R.: "The Chip", Simon and Schuster, 1984

 

Transistor Design:

Muller, Richard and Kamins, Theodore: "Device Electronics for Integrated Circuits", John Wiley and Sons, 1977

Roulston, David: "Bipolar Semiconductor Devices", McGraw-Hill, 1990

 

Chapter 3: Simulation

Antognetti, Paolo and Massobrio, Guiseppe: "Semiconductor Device Modeling with Spice", McGraw-Hill, 1988

Kundert, Kenneth: "The Designer's Guide to Spice and Spectre", Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995

Berkeley BSIM model information is available at www-device.eecs.berkeley.edu/~bsim3/

 

Chapter 6: Current Sources

Fig. 6-7: This circuit is usually attributed to Bob Widlar, but in his paper and patent he considered only 1:1 emitter ratios. Widlar, "Some Circuit Design Techniques for Linear Integrated Circuits," IEEE Transactions on Circuit Theory, Dec. 1965, pp. 586-590. Widlar, "Low-value current source for integrated circuits," US Patent 3,320,439, 1967

Fig. 6-14: George Erdi, "Starting to Like Electronics in Your Twenties", p 172, in Williams, "Analog Circuit Design", Butterworth-Heinemann, Stoneham, MA, 1991. Erdi, US Patent 4,837,496, 1989

 

Chapter 7: Analog Measurements

dB: Martin, W.H., "DeciBel - The New Name for the Transmission Unit," Bell System Technical Journal, January 1929

Steinmetz: Wagoner, C.D., "Steinmetz Revisited", IEEE Spectrum, April 1965, pp.82-95. Kline, Ronald R., "Steinmetz", Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992

Fourier: Encyclopedia Britannica

 

Chapter 9: Bandgap References

Hilbiber, D.F., "A New Semiconductor Voltage Standard", International Solid State Circuits Conference, 1964 (ISSCC 1993 Commemorative Supplement, pp. 34-35)

Widlar, R. J., "New Developments in IC Voltage Regulators", ISSCC Digest of Technical Papers, Feb. 1970, pp.32-33, and IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Feb. 1971, pp. 2-7

Brokaw, A. P., "A Simple Three-Terminal IC Bandgap Reference", IEEE Journal of SolidState Circuits, December 1974, pp. 388-393. Brokaw, "Solid-State Regulated Voltage Supply", US Patent 3,887,863, June 3, 1975

Widlar, R.J., "Temperature Compensated Bandgap IC Voltage References", U.S. Patent 4,249,122, Feb. 3, 1981

Gunawan, M., Meijer, G., Fonderie, J. and Huijsing, J., "A Curvature-Corrected LowVoltage Bandgap Reference", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, June 1993, pp. 667-670

 

Chapter 10: Operational Amplifiers

Solomon, James E.: "The Monolithic Op Amp: A Tutorial Study", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, December 1974, pp. 314-332

Figures 10-10, 10-11 and 10-14: Output stage and base current compensation scheme were derived from Linear Technology Corporation's LT6011

Hogervorst, Ron, et al: "A Compact Power-Efficient 3V CMOS Rail-to-Rail Input/Output Operational Amplifier for VLSI Cell Libraries, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, December 1994, pp. 1505-1513

De Langen, Klaas-Jan and Huijsing, Johan H.: "Compact Low-Voltage Power Efficient Operational Amplifier Cells for VLSI, IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, October 1998, pp. 1482-1496

 

Chapter 12: Transconductance Amplifiers

Figure 12-2 is derived from the National Semiconductor LM13700. A similar concept is used in the RCA (now Intersil) CA3280

Figure 12-7: Nedungadi, A. and Viswanathan, T.: "Design of Linear CMOS Transconductance Elements", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, October 1984, pp. 891-894

 

Chapter 13: Timers and Oscillators

Low-Voltage 555: Camenzind, Hans R.: "Redesigning the old 555", IEEE Spectrum, September 1997, pp. 80-85

Matthys, Robert J.: "Crystal Oscillators", revised edition, Krieger Publishing Company, 1992

 

Chapter 14: Phase-Locked Loops

Gardner, Floyd M.: "Phaselock Techniques", John Wiley and Sons, second edition, 1979

Grebene, Alan B. and Camenzind, Hans R.: "Frequency-Selective Integrated Circuits Using Phase-Lock Techniques", IEEE Journal of Solid State Circuits, August 1969, pp. 216-225

 

Chapter 15: Filters

Sallen, R.P. and Key, E.L.: "A Practical Method of Designing RC Active Filters", IRE Transactions on Circuit Theory, March 1955, pp. 74-85

Butterworth, S.: "On the Theory of Filter Amplifiers", Wireless Engineer, 1930, pp. 536- 541

Brodersen, R.W., Gray, P.R. and Hodges, D.A.: "MOS Switched Capacitor Filters", Proceedings of the IEEE, January 1979, pp. 61-75

 

Chapter 16: Power

Pressman, Abraham I.: "Switching Power Supplies", McGraw-Hill, 1991

Billings, Keith: "Switchmode Power Supply Handbook", McGraw-Hill, 1989, 1999

Camenzind, H.R.: "Modulated Pulse Power Amplifiers for Integrated Circuits", IEEE Transactions on Audio and Electroacoustics, September 1966, pp. 136-140

Attwood, Brian E.: "Design Parameters Important for the Optimization of Very-High Fidelity PWM (Class D) Audio Amplifiers", Journal of the Audio Engineering Society, November 1983, pp. 842-853

Duncan, Ben: "High Performance Audio Amplifiers", Newnes, 1996

 

Chapter 17: A to D and D to A

Analog Devices: "Analog-Digital Conversion Handbook", Prentice-Hall, 1986

Van de Plasche, Rudy: "Integrated Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters", Kluwer, 1994

Boser, Bernhard E. and Wooley, Bruce A.: "The Design of Sigma-Delta Modulation Analog-to-Digital Converters", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, December 1988, pp. 1298-1308

Candy, James C. and Temes, Gabor C.: "Oversampling Delta-Sigma Data Converters", IEEE Press, 1992

Analog Devices: "Sigma-Delta ADCs and DACs", Application Note AN-283

 

Chapter 18: Useful Analog Circuits

Gilbert, Barrie: "A New Wide-Band Amplifier Technique", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, December 1968, pp. 353-365

Gilbert, Barrie: "A High-Performance Monolithic Multiplier Using Active Feedback", IEEE Journal of Solid-State Circuits, December 1974, pp. 364-373