Analog Microelectronics

This textbook uses an innovative, fresh and rigorous approach to the analysis of analog circuits. The author guides students to leverage the psycho-cognitive concept of basic pattern as an efficient calculation tool, going beyond its traditional use for the qualitative visual inspection. In this journey, the reader is not left alone to face statements such as it is easy to prove that or it has been proven elsewhere that. All formulas and theorems are proven step-by-step. In particular, the proofs of the theorems on frequency response and stability have been made as intuitive as possible. The author thus demystifies and makes available to the student these relevant theorems, which are usually scattered over decades of reading and/or in several textbooks and papers. Two chapters focus on exercises of increasing difficulty, most of them discussed fully and solved step-by-step, allowing students to strengthen and test their knowledge. Moreover, the first two chapters introduce the history of microelectronics and physics of fundamental electron devices.

Uses a learning method to exploit the concept of pattern as a tool for calculation and not only for visual inspection Guides students, step-by-step, through mathematical proof of theoretical formulas Includes material on the history of microelectronics where appropriate, enhancing conceptual understanding

Autorentext

Mattia Borgarino is currently Associate Professor for Analog & Mixed-Signal Microelectronics, at the Enzo Ferrari Engineering Department, Modena and Reggio Emilia University, Modena, Italy. After M.D. graduation in Electronics Engineering in 1993 and the military service as electronics technician, in 1999 he Ph.D. graduated with a thesis on the reliability physics of GaAs-based heterostructured transistors. After a European Post-Doc TMR training (Training and Mobility of Researcher) at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France) on SiGe heterodevices for millimeter-wave applications, in 2000 he joined the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as a Research Fellow. In 2018 he was invited professor at the University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France).

His current research activity is focused mainly on the design of cryogenic Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) for quantum information processing and the use of GaN HFET for RF power applications. In the past, he was involved in the design of several RFICs and in the low frequency noise characterization and modelling of microwave transistors in academic projects and industrial collaborations, as well.

He is/has been reviewer for several IEEE, MDPI, IOP and Elsevier journals and in international Ph.D. Committees. He has been scientific observer for the basic research activity for the MIUR REPRISE (Rome, Italy) and external reviewer for the ANR (Paris, France).

Inhalt

History of Electronics.- Transistors and Amplifiers.- Fundamental Patterns.- Exercises on basic patterns.- Frequency Response.- Feedback.- Feedback and Stability.- Examples of Feedback Amplifiers.