The Art Of Analog Layout By Alan Hastings Portable -

If you have ever blown up a chip due to parasitic SCR structures, you understand the trauma. Hastings' latch-up chapter is the emergency room manual. A portable copy means you can show the diagram of the parasitic NPN/PNP pair to a junior engineer right at the review station.

Mixed-signal layout is Hell. You have digital noise flooding the analog ground. Hastings provides the "Star Ground" philosophy and the "Split Plane" strategy. Having this chapter on a tablet while routing power lines saves prototypes from failure. the art of analog layout by alan hastings portable

Many working engineers prefer a scanned PDF of the second edition. Why? If you have ever blown up a chip

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While you may know how a MOSFET works, Hastings explains stress effects. When you are laying out a precision op-amp, you need to remember the "STI (Shallow Trench Isolation) stress" rule. A portable version lets you verify the orientation of dummy transistors without walking back to your office.