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Steve's IC Design Page

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Amplifiers - Bandgap References - Feedback Stability

This page is designed to be as helpful as possible to IC designers. The goal is quick & easy education and insight into issues a designer rarely possesses complete mastery. If you seek deeper understanding, tips, refreshers, info on alternative topologies, or links to external information sources, this site may have what you need. The emphases are on CMOS, differential amplifiers, feedback stabilization, and power management. More info and links are continually being added. This information is free. The payback to the author comes directly from the page's usefulness, plus the learning that always results from educational efforts, as well as the fact that these works show the author's specific capabiltiies to potential design & layout customers.

Sub-Page Contents:

• Designs Page - Detailed, Educational IC Circuit Design Reviews
  • Steve's Designs - 800mV Reference using Bandgap Reference, Hi-Gain OTAs
  • Others' Designs (URLs): Bandgap Reference, SMPS, LDO
• Tutorials Page
  • Steve's IC Design Tutorials
    • Bandgap Reference Design
    • Control & Stabilization Theory & Practice
  • Others' Tutorials (URLs): Device Physics, Bandgap References, DRAM, LDOs, PLLs
• Differential Amplifiers Page
  • Brief overview, with schematics, descriptions, and URLs, for common diff amps, including 5T Diff Amp, OTAs, Telescopic Cascode, Folded Cascode

See also the Tools Helps pages for tips and URLs on various software tools useful to IC design engineers. Links to tools distributors included.

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