Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, Fourth Edition

Preface to the Fourth Edition

I set for myself two goals in producing this fourth edition of Modern VLSI Design. First, I wanted to update the book for more modern technologies and design methods. This includes obvious changes like smaller design rules. But it also includes emphasizing more system-level topics such as IP-based design. Second, I wanted to continue to improve the book’s treatment of the fundamentals of logic design. VLSI is often treated as circuit design, meaning that traditional logic design topics like pipelining can easily become lost.

In between the third and fourth editions of this book, I respun the third edition as FPGA-Based System Design. That book added new FPGA-oriented material to material from Modern VLSI ...