[sdiy] Mixed Signal Design Book

[Nicholas Vining]

I recently bought this exact book out of curiousity. It's definitely 
interesting stuff, although anybody expecting to make their own Alesis 
Andromeda is probably in for disappointment. A similarly interesting 
piece of reading material, available for free, is Designing Analog Chips 
by Hans Camenzind:

http://www.designinganalogchips.com/

which contains a few things that might be more interesting to the 
analog-hads amongst us.

It's worth noting that all of Doug Curtis's chips - well, okay, I'm not 
sure about the later ones but CEM3310 through CEM3340 - were built on 
the Interdesign bipolar analog array process. Up here in Canada, CMC 
offers a 2.5 GHz bipolar linear array process for academics, at $500 per 
run:

http://www.cmc.ca/en/WhatWeOffer/Make/FabPricing.aspx

I don't know what the commercial cost of such a project would be, 
though, and I don't know if MOSIS has anything equivalent.

-- N.

On 9/1/2015 3:22 PM, MTG wrote:
> I don't have this book, but it looks pretty interesting. Maybe it can 
> find a home on the shelf beside the other books that discuss synth and 
> audio design (and that are very often analog in nature). It's written 
> by the late great Keith Barr who founded MXR and later Alesis.
>
> ASIC Design in the Silicon Sandbox: A Complete Guide to Building 
> Mixed-Signal Integrated Circuits
> http://www.amazon.com/ASIC-Design-Silicon-Sandbox-Mixed-Signal/dp/0071481613 
>
>
> http://www.mixonline.com/news/news-products/memoriam-keith-barr-1949-2010/379042 
>
>
>
> An interesting industry tie-in (to me) is that Marcus Ryle was at 
> Alesis too, and he later went on to form Line 6. I stumbled on this 
> while looking at some EPROM .bin dumps and noticing references to Fast 
> Forward Designs.
>
> We could really use one of those org charts (like the Prog Rock bands 
> have) for guys like this along with the usual legends! I'm sure there 
> was a lot of engineering migration between companies in Silicon Valley 
> as well as other hot spots on the planet.
>
> https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/timeline/534b7b5247258949269fd0aff1c1710f.png 
>
>
> https://gwmusic.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/elpfamilytree.jpg
>
>
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