Voltage References: From Diodes to Precision High-Order Bandgap Circuits 1st Edition

This is one of several great books from Dr. Rincon Mora, and it includes many useful and practical design tips/trade-offs, which is very helpful for both academic researchers and analog design engineers.

I've been studying bandgap references for a while and this book was pretty clear and accurate. I liked the presentation of the material.

I bought this book for a professional reference forCMOS voltage circuits. The information within thebook is arranged very oddly. For example, the chapteron PTAT voltage/current generation comes before thechapter on bnadgap voltage references. But a new readerwould probably have no idea why they would want a PTATsource until they had read the latter chapter.It's a bit odd really, because the Prof. has published somegood stuff on the web which explains the basics really well.This book does not even cover the basic ideas all thatwell.Check out the publications of Barrie Gilbert, he doesit much better.For students, there are almost no worked examples and thepoor book organisation makes it a very hard read.

Good experience

The book does do a good job of highlighting the challenges of designing good references. It also talks about some of the difficulties (Eg trim, PTAT effects, package effects)However, the book is very difficult to follow and the chapters don't flow from one to the others. Certainly not something that I can access frequently in my library.Also there are no exercises for the reader to do so that the concepts remain entrenched in his mind.I would not purchase this book but rather do a google search on this.My background: I have 15yr experience doing analog IC design.