vfone said:From my experience in both fields RF Circuit and RFIC Design, I can say that first of all if you want to be a good RFIC designer you have to be a good RF Circuit Designer.
I met a lot of guys who jumped from no RF experience to RFIC design, and I can say that their productivity sucks. For some of them doesn’t matter how many years they spent in RFIC Design area, the results were the same…because they were missing the RF basics.
hmahdi12 said:You can study about digital circuit design by:
A. P. Chandrakasan AND R. W. Brodersen, “Low Power Digital CMOS Design,” Kluwer academic Publishers, 1995.
v_naren said:The absolute fundamental for RFIC is only analog circuit methods.
Since in RFIC there is nothing like distributed effect...you dont use transmision lines or microstrips or something like smith charts to design your ciruits....so there is nothing magically different from analog ic design since the size is basically small enough to use good old lumped element techniques...anyway I think
1) The design of CMOS RFICs by Thomas H. Lee from SMIRC
2) RF Microelectronics by Behzad Razavi are quite stupid..oops...simple enough for an analog ic design expert to start designing the so called totally different LNAs and mixers!!!
on the other hand...if you want to truly learn the beautifully diofferent design methods and tricks and techniques and want to drown yourself in smith chart based methods then you should definitely read
1) Microwave transistor amplifiers by Gonzalez
2) Microwave engg by David M. Pozar
3) The recent two volumes on microwave circuit design by Les Besser
these 4 books are very very good to learn "REAL RF/MW" design methods which the discrete RF/MW and integrated MW(NOT RFIC) designers still use!!!
happy learning
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