Charge Pump Circuit Design (McGraw-Hill Elctronic Engineering) 1st Edition

First of all, let me begin by saying that this book has a lot of notation and spelling mistakes that greatly distract the reader and give a bad impression even if the material is actually correct.Having said that, however, I believe the book lacks logical flow to it's presentation of the topics. There is no doubt the authors have good fundamental understanding of the charge pumps, but they do not parlay this information in a way that builds the user's confidence in DESIGNING an actual charge pump. Different topologies are presented but throughout the book you are constantly bombarded with quotes such as "it is important" "it is essential" "the designer must" etc. Equations and concepts are constantly presented until the last page of the book without any emphasis in their place in design flow. At the end of the day, you are left at your own devices in determining what is important and what is not. Perhaps this is not such a problem for an experienced designer but for a beginner is quite a distraction.

The book is incomplete with regard to design. Little, if any, AC and transient analysis is presented. Information on closed-loop regulation techniques and analysis is missing

Great introductory book for all level of design engineers to start charge pump design. I have learned and practiced at work with the help of this book. Looking forward to the 2nd book for more advanced topics!

It is worst book I ever read in my life.Lots of mistakes, how authors could "write" it. Copy and paste from those reference are even better what wrote.Authors should be shamed by themselves.

This book is worthless. A simple Google search gets you more and better information.Everything about this book is shoddy. There's no overall structure; huge pieces of the subject are omitted (e.g. control loops), but there's a whole chapter devoted to elementary device physics, which any reader of this book should already be familiar with. The most coherent material in the book has been cribbed from other sources (e.g. L. Pylarinos "Charge Pumps: An Overview"). Naturally, the text is full of spelling and grammar mistakes, and the figures in the book are poorly drawn.Don't waste your money.

The details are great, but there are quite a few typographical errors in the equations, and errors of notations in the figures.The authors and the publisher McGraw Hill could have done a better work.I think this is a useful book for practicing engineers.Beware of the little mistakes a little here and there.

This is not a good book about charge pump design. The spelling mistakes or typos are very misleading and even confusing. Some points and explanations are repeated too many times and the content covered in the whole book could be compressed in one chapter.

I believe this is the first published book to cover thoroughly about the charge-pump design. I have done the extensively search before and none of any other book (say, FLASH MEMORIES by Paulo Cappelletti et al) has covered that much so far in term of CHARGE-PUMP Design technique. The first four chapters focus on the literature review and fundamental analysis, which make it sustainable to the rest of the chapters. This is necessary in term of the integrity of the book. The more important part is the second half of the book. It focus on the design criteria and design techniques. The authors address the several important design criteria, such as, pump strength, pump efficiency, pump output ripple control , pump output regulation and pump device break-down etc. These are very very important concerns in today's charge pump design in flash memory industrial. In its last chapter, it covers in detailed about how to design 6-stage Dickson Type Charge-Pump with STEP BY STEP . In reality, I have followed these steps by plugging-in my design criteria and achieved my own Dickson Type charge-pump design. However, I wasn't able to do so before, even though I have read many published IEEE papers regarding different type of the charge-pump designs before.After you read this book carefully, you will be able to sense that the authors have laid out the physical view of the charge-pump design throughout this book. It demystifies the charge-pump structure and explains it as a simple RC network and non-ideal voltage source, which shows that the authors have excellent fundamental knowledge and very strong design techniques. The only thing I wish was that the authors should have also given more sample designs on other types of charge-pump, such as doubler structure. I have traced the published patents from the authors and found some more interesting design ideas on this topic. Overall, I give five stars of this book and highly recommend to the IC designers who work in this area.