The Art Of Analog Layout By Alan Hastings Portable -

Alan Hastings' The Art of Analog Layout is widely considered the "Bible" of analog integrated circuit (IC) design. It is a foundational text for both layout designers and circuit designers who need to understand the physical implementation of their schematics.

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A powerful portable concept is the “dummy” device—a non-functional transistor or resistor placed at the ends of arrays to ensure every functional device experiences identical photolithographic and etching conditions. Similarly, common-centroid layouts for resistors (using unit elements arranged in a cross-coupled pattern) cancel linear and some quadratic process gradients. The art is recognizing that in analog, geometry is function.