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Physical Design of CMOS Integrated Circuits Using L-Edit

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This book shows how to use the L-Edit computer program. The program is intended to be very simple so that students can learn how to use it in a short time. It is for designing MOS digital integrated circuits. Students with the basic knowledge gained from using this simplified program will find the next step of learning the more complex programs used in industry a less painful experience.

Using the software along this book, students could only design very small logic, e.g. Xor, Nand, Nor. Insructor usually required students to design a basic 8-bit ALU layout in a class project assignment, so this book don't really help students to solve problems. And this book doesn't let us know how to revise the extracted file in order to simulate the designed circuit. I suggest this book should provide an additional chapter to cover the simulation part and pull-up the limitation to a reasonable degree.....at least a basic 8-bit ALU...

This book does a great job of taking designers through the steps to tape-out for fabrication, and provides lots of helpful details on L-Edit usage. Several members of our design group also learned L-Edit in school, and we still use it now for its PC platform flexibilty. The learning curve is shallow and it's a great option even though Cadence and other tools are available.

A good book. I'm professor and IC designer. To me the real
knowledge comes from many small details. With L-edit, you
can learn more details and hints on how things go inside a
CAD than a big system like Cadence.

this book is very useful for students who want to furnish their career in the semiconductor design technology.