Enrollments in VLSI design automation courses are not large but it's a very popular elective, especially for those seeking a career in the microelectronics industry. Already the reviewers seem very enthusiastic about the coverage of the book being a better match for their courses than available competitors, because it covers all design phases. It has plenty of worked problems and a large no. of illustrations. It's a good 'list-builder' title that matches our strategy of focusing on topics that lie on the interface between Elec Eng and Computer Science.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preliminaries

· Introduction to Design Methodologies

· A Quick Tour of VLSI Design Automation Tools

· Algorithmic Graph Theory and Computational Complexity

· Tractable and Intractable Problems

· General-purpose Methods for Combinatorial Optimization

Selected Design Problems And Algorithms

· Layout Compaction

· Placement and Partitioning

· Floor planning

· Routing

· Simulation

· Logic Synthesis and Verification

· High-level Synthesis