Introduction to VLSI Systems (Reprint)

Contents: Preface. 1. MOS Devices and circuits. 2. Integrated system fabrication. 3. Data and control flow in systematic structures. 4. Implementing integrated system designs: from circuit topology to patterning geometry to wafer fabrication. 5. Overview of an LSI Computer system, and the design of the OM2 Data Path Chip. 6. Architecture and design of system controllers, and the design of the OM2 Controller Chip. 7. System timing. 8. Highly concurrent system. 9. Physics of computational systems. Index. "This text is written to introduce all Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students to integrate system architecture and design. Combined with individual study in related research areas and participation in large system design projects, this text provides the basis for a graduate course sequence in integrated systems. However, it is primarily intended for use in intensive undergraduate courses on the subject. The material can be used to augment courses on computer architecture. This text provides enough essential information about devices, circuits, fabrication technology, logic design techniques and system architecture to enable the reader to fully span the entire range of abstractions from the underlying physics to complete VLSI Digital computer systems. Salient Features: Basic concepts discussed in this book cover quite a wide range of disciplines and are easily visualized only after the context becomes clear. Provided a set of selected design examples and also described procedures for implementing one's own designs.". …