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Semiconductor Modeling:: For Simulating Signal, Power, and Electromagnetic Integrity

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This book provides a very readable and excellent resource for several modeling approaches needed in advanced design. It includes the broadest coverage to date of all aspects of the IBIS Standard, now well-established in industry. Formal syntactical topics are included along with important practical concerns of model quality and proper usage.

Connecting IBIS with other modeling formats and methods works well and preserves continuity in addressing multiple design issues. So this book is very valuable addition to one's library.

The book offers the latest ideas in more accurate simulations of circuits laid down in semiconductors. The emphasis is at a level above basic device physics simulations. The latter is not really dealt with much. Instead, a reader who might be an electrical engineer needs to design at larger scales of a circuit.

You get a discussion of how to use the latest EDA tools. But note that the book is not confined to simulations. One key issue is how to compare simulations against actual measurements taken from live circuits. The IBIS model is also a major portion of the text. Knowledge of how to use IBIS is now often as necessary as knowing SPICE, for many engineers.

Probably the WORST book I've purchased since I graduated from MIT 48 years ago.
Reads like a novel... all BS and no meat :-(
Implies definitive IBIS, but lots of superfluous ANCIENT modeling. Sheeeesh!