The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition

going through the reviews of this book, I keep going back and asking myself the old question of the value in democratic wisdom. How , How can anyone in the world of Electrical Engineering, give this text anything but five start, and then not CRAVE for having given it more, if only the Amazon allows it. There is just no measure of what a book tells u, and hence the ranking orders are just purely a statistical misery. Let me tell you, what this book has to offer, but before that, I will take a very brief detour to just tie for you, the comments of other reviewers, lest the light of this holy text be partaken.One of the worthy reviewers claimed that this summarizes for us, the high points of what otherwise would have been an undergraduate course in EE. To this I can say you are probably right. But I would rather put down this statement as meaning something that this book, this book alone, has taught me what I had always craved for, in one decade of doing Electrical Engineering, and never ever got from those 150 books strewn across my engineering shelf.Then the reviewer contends that Lee seems to contest the conventional wisdom and then lays a claim to having foufn too light. What do you means 'seems to' and 'lays a claim'. Oh my dear Sir, this is truth, and mere truth. This book will tell you about smith charts, about complex modlation schemes, about transciever architecture, in a way, which NO OTHER BOOK in our contemporary history has ever laid down. Give me a book that can say that the circle of a countour is but a straight line of infinite radius !!!!! I have studied complex baseband communications for five years, and never for the heck of it understood all those complex baseband envelope modeling, untill i hit the golden two paragrpahs of Lee.I dont want to ramble on and on about it, but what exactly is this book then. This book, is an exhilarating ride, from the sandy baked desserts to the snow capped mountains of electrical engineering, but beware, this is not a ride on a jeep with always a plenty of food and water. This is an action packed adventure, a thourough NON stop action. So Lee will get you through the non linear history of the radio first. The titlte and the chapter alone is worth a whole life time in Engineering. In the second chapter, thats the complex envelope one. From where I have learned all things digital, and all ideas called information. In the third one on passive RLC networks, Lee will take you for a roller coster into a world where capacitors driven by a 5 volt battery might carry currents and voltages of the order of thousands which can melt themselves like a furnance. This is a startly energy gimmickry that awaits u in this chapter. Go to four, and Lee will teach you the skin effect afresh. All books on EMT put together will be held to shame. Go through 6 and 7 on distributed systems, and you will be plunged into a magic of cancelling reflections. You hold a quarter wave transformer in your hand. I have held it for like 15 years, without ever realizing, what a magic I am holding. I never knew I hold Aladins lamp in my hand, by putting that quarter wave in my circuit. Lee will tell you the magic, the magic of reflection cacellation and why is it a bane for broad band matching. Chapter 8. Ooooh my God. Lee will come out of hiding here. In this magnum opus, he will shatter all concentional concepts of gain bandwidth products, he will pulverize all our notions of analog tradeoffs. I can tell you, Chapter 8 & 9 , they are a battle with your concsience. A conscious that has been polluted by years and years of debauchery taught to us as undergraduates and graduates in EE.I can ramble on and on and on, into PLLs into Power Amps, into Oscillators. You can probably spend another few text books and several years, analyzing the wisdom that Lee preaches.Frankly, I suggest you dont buy this book. Because I really don want to have so many competitors. But not writing it all, would have been like not giving the smallest bit that I can, back to Professor Lee. I felt obligated, and hence the review

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As a 3rd year graduate student in the field, I find Prof. Lee's Design of CMOS RFIC's to be excellent follow-up text for those who have the requisite background in circuit analysis and design techniques. This book assumes the reader already has intimate familiarity with the methods of circuit analysis, so it does not spend much time on the basic stuff, like deriving the response of standard circuit topologies. The discussion in the text is instead focused towards developing an intuitive understanding of the systems described. Instead of giving a dry mathematical treatment, Prof. Lee focuses on explaining the mathematical results derived and gives usually insightful comments on their importance and where they come from. The chapter on RLC circuits particularly reflects this. The second edition is well expanded from the first edition and includes an excellent treatment of LNAs, oscillators and phase noise in particular. The complete system examples are very good for helping the reader see the "big picture" and why individual circuits are designed the way they are.Those not already familiar with circuits will be confused by this book however, because it takes for granted that the reader has an intuition for circuits and systems. Without it the reader can't really understand and appreciate the intuitive gems that Lee offers. All in all, this book needs to be on the desk of any integrated circuit designer. It sure is for everyone in my research group!

Professor Lee's disdain for rigorous analysis, explicitly stated in numerous places in this book, sets a poor example for his students and the engineering community.On p. 72 we see the most explicit statement of this attitude: "The fussy reader will note that, strictly speaking, the integral is improper. We don't worry about such minor details; we're engineers. Thus, the integral of sine is cosine and that's that."In this particular case, the result obtained is correct, so Dr. Lee's neglect of rigor hasn't resulted in an error. It demonstrates an attitude, however, that is inimical to the competent practice of engineering, in which rigorous mathematical analysis plays a very significant role. When rigor is discarded, the results will be correct some of the time, but they will also be incorrect some of the time.An example where the lack of rigor I described leads to an incorrect result can be found in another of Dr. Lee's publications [1]. Here the authors observe that for a certain feedback system with two loops, one of the error signals has the form e=X/(1+H(s)), which looks a lot like the error signal for a single loop, e=X/(1+T(s)). The authors conclude that H(s) must be an "effective loop transmission" describing the stability of the two loop system, which a more rigorous analysis shows to be incorrect.While intuition and rules of thumb are certainly useful in engineering, Dr. Lee makes a fetish of these shortcuts. His style lacks the rigor that one would expect from a engineering textbook, and then adds insult to injury by making the bizarre claim that the rigor is unnecessary.[1] "Automatic phase alignment for a fully integrated Cartesian feedback power amplifier system", Dawson, J.L., Lee, T.H., Solid-State Circuits, IEEE Journal of, Volume 38, Issue 12, Dec 2003 Page(s):2269 - 2279.

Great academic textbook. Also quite useful for industry. Concise and detailed on main circuit topologies and architectures. This is also a great book for understanding RF design as a whole.

Excellent book. Explain as deep are required as an Engineer need to "hear" about.Very happy. Worth the price at all! =)

I still remember the occasion where I personally met with Prof. Lee. Well, he probably didn't see me because I was an audience at a lunch talk of his during a conference. He is one of the smartest people I've ever known, and his great presentation skill stood out as well. This high quality presentation clearly shows in this book of his, and it was very enjoyable to read.RFICs started in bipolar technologies, and it was only during the late 90's when CMOS started to catch up. The first edition of his book came out around that time, and this second edition followed a few years later. The materials in it are still very relevant, even after nearly 20 years. I would really appreciate if Prof. Lee ever decides to write a third edition, but as of now, it still serves as a very good reference, especially for students who prefers more elaborate readings. This is no doubt a 5-star book, but I only gave 4 star here just because I would suggest you complement it with more recent texts if you want to study RFICs in depth.

Great book useful for preparing engineering exams and also for work. at least this is what my girlfriend say about it

Very good. Fast delivery