CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective

by Neil Weste, David Harris

Publisher: Addison-Wesley
ISBN: 0321547748

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Book Description

For both introductory and advanced courses in VLSI design, this authoritative, comprehensive textbook is highly accessible to beginners, yet offers unparalleled breadth and depth for more experienced readers.

The Fourth Edition of CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems perspective presents broad and in-depth coverage of the entire field of modern CMOS VLSI Design. The authors draw upon extensive industry and classroom experience to introduce today’s most advanced and effective chip design practices. They present extensively updated coverage of every key element of VLSI design, and illuminate the latest design challenges with 65 nm process examples. This book contains unsurpassed circuit-level coverage, as well as a rich set of problems and worked examples that provide deep practical insight to readers at all levels.

About the Author

David Money Harris Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT. His research interests include CMOS VLSI design, microprocessors, and computer arithmetic. He holds a dozen patents, is the author of three other books in the field of digital design and three hiking guidebooks, and has designed chips at Sun Microsystems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Evans & Sutherland.

Neil Weste is a member of the faculty at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Macquarie University; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Adelaide; and Director, Engineering at Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to custom IC design, and a peer elected member of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society. In 1997 he cofounded Radiata Communications (with David Skellern) which designed the first chip sets for the IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard; in 2001 Radiata was acquired by Cisco. He has served as department head at Bell Laboratories; leader of design projects for Symbolics, Inc.; and as president of TLW, Inc., an IC engineering company that completed groundbreaking chip designs for companies such as North American Philips, Analog Devices, AT&T Microelectronics and Thomson Consumer Electronics.

Customer Reviews

If you are looking at this book, chances are you do not have a choice in the matter of buying it - it is a mandatory book for your VLSI class. Just have two thoughts for you that should make the decision easier:

1. It is one of the better written engineering textbooks. It will help and it won't be too painful to go through.
2. Amazon probably has it cheaper than you'll find it elsewhere so just buy it.

I read the 2nd edition many years ago and thought it was great for CMOS digital designs. I looked over the latest edition; it appears less useful for practicing engineers and becomes more of an introductory college textbook. Even as an introductory textbook, it is not a particularly good one. The 2nd ed was better organized and more succinct. I would keep my 2nd edition which is still useful and only slightly dated.

Not only does this book contain basic introductory information to digital circuits and VLSI design, it also has been updated with the latest research on important and interesting research topics in digital circuit and VLSI design. It cites many papers published within the past years.

Great as a reference, a refresher for experts, or for undergraduates.