Improve your circuit-design potential with this guide to the devices and technology used in mixed analog-digital VLSI chips for such high-volume applications as hard-disk drives, wireless telephones and consumer electronics. The book provides a critical understanding of device models, fabrication technology and layout as they apply to mixed analog-digital circuits. You will learn about the many device-modelling requirements for analog work as well as the pitfalls in models used today for computer simulators such as Spice. Also included is information on fabrication technologies developed specifically for mixed-signal VLSI chips, plus guidance on the layout of mixed analog-digital chips for a high degree of analog-device matching and minimum digital-to-analog interference. The book also includes an introduction to MOSFET operation that will enable the reader to view with insight any MOSFET model - besides thorough discussions on valuable large-signal and small-signal models.