This textbook uses an innovative, fresh and rigorous approach to the analysis of analog circuits. The author guides students to leverage the psycho-cognitive concept of basic pattern as an efficient calculation tool, going beyond its traditional use for the qualitative visual inspection. In this journey, the reader is not left alone to face statements such as "it is easy to prove that" or "it has been proven elsewhere that". All formulas and theorems are proven step-by-step. In particular, the proofs of the theorems on frequency response and stability have been made as intuitive as possible. The author thus demystifies and makes available to the student these relevant theorems, which are usually scattered over decades of reading and/or in several textbooks and papers. Two chapters focus on exercises of increasing difficulty, most of them discussed fully and solved step-by-step, allowing students to strengthen and test their knowledge. Moreover, the first two chapters introduce the history of microelectronics and physics of fundamental electron devices.

About the Author

Mattia Borgarino is currently Associate Professor for Analog & Mixed-Signal Microelectronics, at the Enzo Ferrari Engineering Department, Modena and Reggio Emilia University, Modena, Italy. After M.D. graduation in Electronics Engineering in 1993 and the military service as electronics technician, in 1999 he Ph.D. graduated with a thesis on the reliability physics of GaAs-based heterostructured transistors. After a European Post-Doc TMR training (Training and Mobility of Researcher) at the LAAS-CNRS in Toulouse (France) on SiGe heterodevices for millimeter-wave applications, in 2000 he joined the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia as a Research Fellow. In 2018 he was invited professor at the University of Bordeaux (Bordeaux, France).

His current research activity is focused mainly on the design of cryogenic Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit (RFIC) for quantum information processing and the use of GaN HFET for RF power applications. In the past, he was involved in the design of several RFICs and in the low frequency noise characterization and modelling of microwave transistors in academic projects and industrial collaborations, as well.

He is/has been reviewer for several IEEE, MDPI, IOP and Elsevier journals and in international Ph.D. Committees. He has been scientific observer for the basic research activity for the MIUR REPRISE (Rome, Italy) and external reviewer for the ANR (Paris, France).

Book Information
ISBN 9783031942853
Author Mattia Borgarino
Format Hardback
Page Count 973
Imprint Springer International Publishing AG
Publisher Springer International Publishing AG