In August 2015, the book ‘CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation with LTspice IV – a Tutorial Guide’ was published by bookboon.com.
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By the end of 2016, ‘CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation with LTspice IV’ had reached a total number of downloads in excess of 115,000.
Also, a follow-up book was published in June 2016 with worked-out solutions to the end-of-chapter problems from the first book. By the end of 2016, this book had reached more than 44,000 downloads.
In the fall of 2016, LTspice has been launched in a new version, LTspice XVII, with many new features.
Now, also new editions of the books about CMOS circuit simulation are available, including descriptions of many of the new features in LTspice XVII, even more examples, and even more end-of-chapter problems.
The new editions are available here:
‘CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation with LTspice’: http://bookboon.com/en/cmos-integrated-circuit-simulation-with-ltspice-ebook
‘CMOS Integrated Circuit Simulation: Solutions’: http://bookboon.com/en/cmos-integrated-circuit-simulation-solutions-ebook
These books may be of interest to teachers, students and engineers working with (analog) circuit design and/or integrated ciruit design.
– I have been using the books myself in my teaching as a supplement to textbook like ’Electrical Engineering, Principles and Applications’ (Hambley), ’Microelectronic Circuits’ (Sedra & Smith) and ’Analog Integrated Circuit Design’ (Chan Carusone, Johns & Martin), says Erik Bruun, prof. emiritus, DTU.
For students, the books have the obvious advantage of being downloadable for free, just as the simulator LTspice is freely available from Linear Technology, http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
