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(More customer reviews)I'm a professor who teaches and conducts research in the area of low-power integrated circuit design with biological applications and (sometimes) inspiration. This book is a wonderful resource for circuit designers who want to see their field presented from a fresh, non-traditional perspective. The author goes back to first principles to show the fundamental limits and essential trade-offs in ultra-low-power circuit design, and their (sometimes surprising) connections with neuroscience and biology.
Although this book is valuable for analog and mixed-signal designers who aren't particularly interested in biology, it contains a number of chapters that make for great intellectual entertainment and stimulation, especially as power efficiency becomes the overriding goal in many design spaces. It is truly remarkable to consider the capabilities and robustness of the human brain, considering it operates on 12 Watts from a 100-mV power supply, using failure-prone components having bandwidths of 1 kHz.
Hardcore circuit designers will find great chapters on device physics, noise, feedback, and system-level design, all presented from a point of view several degrees apart from that of mainstream circuits textbooks. I find this different perspective essential for developing a deep understanding of the many complex concepts that underlie circuit design and analysis.
The book is written in a readable, conversational tone, with plenty of clear explanation for the equations. I wish more engineering professors would write books in this style.
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This book provides, for the first time, a broad and deep treatment of the fields of both ultra low power electronics and bioelectronics. It discusses fundamental principles and circuits for ultra low power electronic design and their applications in biomedical systems. It also discusses how ultra-energy-efficient cellular and neural systems in biology can inspire revolutionary low power architectures in mixed-signal and RF electronics. The book presents a unique, unifying view of ultra low power analog and digital electronics and emphasizes the use of the ultra-energy-efficient subthreshold regime of transistor operation in both. Chapters on batteries, energy harvesting, and the future of energy provide an understanding of fundamental relationships between energy use and energy generation at small scales and at large scales. A wealth of insights and examples from brain implants, cochlear implants, bio-molecular sensing, cardiac devices, and bio-inspired systems make the book useful and engaging for students and practicing engineers.
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