Modern VLSI Design: IP-Based Design, Fourth Edition

Preface to the Second Edition

Every chapter in this second edition of Modern VLSI Design has been updated to reflect the challenges looming in VLSI system design. Today’s VLSI design projects are, in many cases, mega-chips which not only contain tens (and soon hundreds) of millions of transistors, but must also run at very high frequencies. As a result, I have emphasized circuit design in a number of ways: the fabrication chapter spends much more time on transistor characteristics; the chapter on gate design covers a wider variety of gate designs; the combinational logic chapter enhances the description of interconnect delay and adds an important new section on crosstalk; the sequential logic chapter covers clock period determination ...