This book provides a comprehensive treatment of modern VLSI design. It stresses the relationship among high-level system considerations, logic design, and silicon circuitry and fabrication in a manner that allows the reader to understand the field as a single composite discipline. The approach emphasizes the unique features of state-of-the-art CMOS VLSI that sets it apart from traditional digital systems design.

Contents
Preface

An Overview of VLSI

Part I Silicon Logic

· Logic Design with MOSFETs

· Physical Structure of CMOS Integrated Circuits

· Fabrication of CMOS Integrated Circuits

· Elements of Physical Design

Part II The Logic-Electronics Interface

· Electrical Characteristics of MOSFETs

· Electronic Analysis of CMOS Logic Gates

· Designing High-Speed CMOS Logic Networks

· Advanced Techniques in CMOS Logic Circuits

Part III The Design Of VLSI Systems

· System Specifications Using Verilog(r) HDL

· General VLSI System Components

· Arithmetic Circuits in CMOS VLSI

· Memories and Programmable Logic

· System-Level Physical Design

· VLSI Clocking and System Design

· Reliability and Testing of VLSI Circuits

Index