Fundamentals of Microelectronics_RAZAVI

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Essential component of this book is “analysis by inspection.” This “mentality” is
created in two steps. First, the behavior of elementary building blocks is formulated using a
“verbal” description of each analytical result (e.g., “looking into the emitter, we see 􀀀􀀀gm.”).
Second, larger circuits are decomposed and “mapped” to the elementary blocks to avoid the need
for writing KVLs and KCLs. This approach both imparts a great deal of intuition and simplifies
the analysis of large circuits.