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Principles of CMOS VLSI Design

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I own many engineering books and most of the authors of these books have a hard time getting the point across. However, "Principles of CMOS VLSI Design" by Weste is an excellent book: very comprehensive, very detailed, and very clear in his explanations of the various topics covered in this book. As an undergraduate, I recommend this book to all engineering students. Also, I am currently interning at this engineering company and most of the engineers that work there own this book.

I have read the 1th ed. of this book and reading the 2ed ed. now. This books is so easyly to be understood, even by a foreigner. This book emphasis the principles learned in college. And introduce more trends about the CMOS technology. After readed the books, let me become a experienced IC designer quickly with layout,circut,subsystem, especially the system concept that general not learned in college.This books is the best choice for IC design beginner just comming from college.

Great book for beginners. I would recommend reading the first half of the book and then reading "Skew Tolerant Circuit Design" and then "Logical Effort." These books will give a circuit designer the basic tools to circuit design.

I found this to cover very in depth the VLSI topics, starting from the basics of CMOS devices and going all the way to practical layout of actual VLSI circuits.

If you are interested in CMOS VLSI design, this is the first book you need to read carefully. The first several chapters give you lot of detailed and fundamental knowledge about CMOS, and the second part of this book contains everything you need in system design.

I have used this book as a reference for a class I took on "Digital Integrated Circuits". This was very handy, the subject matter was introced in a very clear language.

For those who seek a comprehensive look at CMOS design this is a great text. It goes into excellent depth with regard to basic circuit rules all the way to systems and testing. It's a great way to "dive in" but it does not allow you to "put it down" for any length of time. It needs full attention to get the depth of its text.

This book is based on simple examples and permit to beginners to get used with the basics of CMOS VLSI design. It shows how complicated circuits can be implemented simply and gives an overview of imortant tricks used by professionals. "Buy this book" was probably the only clever thing my micro-electronic teacher said !

this book is just a collection of too many thing without a deeper insight. at least for circuit design, john uyemura's book will give you a much organized presentation.

A good starting point if you want to transition from the discrete to the integrated. A useful book if you quickly move on to more advanced books such as Logical Effort and Skew-tolerant Circuit Design. The later edition of this book is more voluminous and up to date (and more muddled as well).