Fast Techniques for Integrated Circuit Design

‘The estimation analysis techniques in this book open up a new and unique approach to gaining a deeper understanding of circuits, thus accelerating the optimization and design of a broad range of circuits, which is a critical skill in the fast paced IC design world where time to market is crucial to success.’ Joel King, Skyworks Solutions, Inc.‘Developing engineering solutions benefits greatly from the proverbial back of the envelope analysis. This book does an excellent job of not only providing a great reference to a number of estimating techniques (limitations clearly identified) for a number of key topics. It also resurrects the concept of engineering estimation, to quickly evaluate ideas and drive to useful conclusions without losing context. This art form is dwindling as today’s engineers continue to depend on (very capable) computer simulators, slowing the development of intuition and hence innovation.’ Claudio Anzil, Innophase Inc.

Mikael Sahrling is Principal Engineer for ASIC design at Tektronix Inc. He has over twenty years of experience in analog and mixed-signal circuit design.