Circuit Design

This textbook teaches VHDL using system examples combined with programmable logic and supported by laboratory exercises. While other textbooks concentrate only on language features, Circuit Design with VHDL offers a fully integrated presentation of VHDL and design concepts by including a large number of complete design examples, illustrative circuit diagrams, a review of fundamental design concepts, fully explained solutions, and simulation results. The text presents the information concisely yet completely, discussing in detail all indispensable features of the VHDL synthesis. The book is organized in a clear progression, with the first part covering the circuit level, treating foundations of VHDL and fundamental coding, and the second part covering...

This reference offers practical explanations of the full range of radio frequency integrated circuits (RFICs). It focuses mainly on bipolar technology to demonstrate circuits, but CMOS is included as well. By emphasizing working designs, it seeks to transport the reader into the authors' own RFIC lab so that you can understand the function of each design detailed in the text. Among the RFIC designs examined are RF integrated LC-based filters, VCO automatic amplitude control loops, and fully-integrated transformer-based circuits, as well as image reject mixers and power amplifiers. If you are new to RFIC design, you should find the introduction to basic theory of interest so that you can quickly come up to speed on how RFICs perform and work together ...

With growing consumer demand for portability and miniaturization in electronics, design engineers must concentrate on many additional aspects in their core design. The plethora of components that must be considered requires that engineers have a concise understanding of each aspect of the design process in order to prevent bug-laden prototypes. Electronic Circuit Design allows engineers to understand the total design process and develop prototypes which require little to no debugging before release. It providesstep-by-step instruction featuring modern components, such as analog and mixed signal blocks, in each chapter. The book details every aspect of the design process from conceptualization and specification to final implementation and release. Th...

Analog circuit design is a very personalized discipline. To be sure, everyone's bound by the same physics and mathematics, but there is no single right way for those tools to be applied to solve a problem. Practitioners of analog design are noted for their individuality. Three of the four introductions that follow are by acknowledged masters of the analog art and deal with analog's place in a world that seems overwhelmed by digital electronics. Each of those three authors gives a highly personal viewpoint that can't be objectively proven right or wrong, but that is the way it is in many aspects of analog design. The remaining introduction, which appears first, does not directly deal with analog electronics at all. However, it does illustrate the matr...