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

Here's some lighter reading I've liked:

• Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities
  
• The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
  
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  
• Feynamn Lectures on Computation
  
  Readable, but more hardcore
  
  Hardware:
  
  
• The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition
  
  
  Mathy:
  
  
• A New Kind of Science. I liked this book a lot, it is worth the price just for the interesting pictures. Make up your mind for yourself, and don't let negative reviewers unduly influence you.
  
• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
  
• Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms
  
  
  Programmy:
  
  
• Mastering Regular Expressions
  
  Unixy:
  
  
• Unix Power Tools
  
  
  Off the wall:
  
  
• Molecular Biology of the Cell
  
  

Hennessy & Patterson: Computer Architecture, a Quantitative Approach

Lee: The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits

Gray et al: Analysis and Design of Analog Integrated Circuits

Coley: An Introduction to Genetic Algorithms for Scientists and Engineers

Fletcher: Practical Methods of Optimization

RFIC design is the culmination of Analog IC Design, EM, Communication Theory and pretty much everything in EE. If you want a good introduction to the subject try reading Dr Tom Lee's book -

The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits

It is a bit old but its still the gold standard for RFIC design.


Regarding the relationship between Analog and RF design, its the parasitics and Transmission Line Theory. At very frequencies everything is a cap/inductor so modelling those and designing around them is what makes RFIC design challenging.

Check these ones out:

http://www.amazon.com/Radio-Frequency-Integrated-Circuit-Design/dp/1607839792/ref=dp_ob_title_bk

http://www.amazon.com/Design-Radio-Frequency-Integrated-Circuits-Edition/dp/0521835399/ref=pd_sim_sbs_14_4?ie=UTF8&dpID=31M1OSOv3PL&dpSrc=sims&preST=_AC_UL160_SR107%2C160_&refRID=0AZ8KKGCHTWRYNWFGB7J

http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Circuit-Design-Wireless-Systems/dp/1580535224