2nd Edition

The VLSI Handbook

Edited By Wai-Kai Chen Copyright 2006
    2320 Pages 1827 B/W Illustrations
    by CRC Press

    For the new millenium, Wai-Kai Chen introduced a monumental reference for the design, analysis, and prediction of VLSI circuits: The VLSI Handbook. Still a valuable tool for dealing with the most dynamic field in engineering, this second edition includes 13 sections comprising nearly 100 chapters focused on the key concepts, models, and equations.

    Written by a stellar international panel of expert contributors, this handbook is a reliable, comprehensive resource for real answers to practical problems. It emphasizes fundamental theory underlying professional applications and also reflects key areas of industrial and research focus.

    WHAT'S IN THE SECOND EDITION?

    Sections on…

    • Low-power electronics and design
    • VLSI signal processing

    Chapters on…

    • CMOS fabrication
    • Content-addressable memory
    • Compound semiconductor RF circuits
    • High-speed circuit design principles
    • SiGe HBT technology
    • Bipolar junction transistor amplifiers
    • Performance modeling and analysis using SystemC
    • Design languages, expanded from two chapters to twelve
    • Testing of digital systems

    Structured for convenient navigation and loaded with practical solutions, The VLSI Handbook, Second Edition remains the first choice for answers to the problems and challenges faced daily in engineering practice.

    VLSI TECHNOLOGY
    Bipolar Technology; B. Gunnar Malm, Jan V. Grahn and Mikael Östling
    CMOS/BiCMOS Technology; Yasuhiro Katsumata, Tatsuya Ohguro, Kazumi Inoh, Eiji Morifuji, Takashi Yoshitomi, Hideki Kimijima, Hideaki Nii, Toyota Morimoto, Hisayo S. Momose, Kuniyoshi Yoshikawa, Hidemi Ishiuchi and Hiroshi Iwai
    Silicon-On-Insulator Technology; Sorin Cristoloveanu
    SiGe HBT Technology; John D. Cressler
    Silicon Carbide Technology; Philip G. Neudeck
    Passive Components; Ashraf Lotfi
    Power IC Technologies; Akio Nakagawa
    Microelectronics Packaging; Bi-Shiou Chiou
    Multichip Module Technologies; Victor Boyadzhyan and
    John Choma, Jr.
    DEVICES AND THEIR MODELS
    Bipolar Junction Transistor Circuits; David J. Comer and Donald T. Comer
    RF Passive IC Components; Thomas H. Lee, Maria del Mar Hershenson, Sunderarajan S. Mohan, Kirad Samavati and C. Patrick Yue
    CMOS Fabrication; Jeff Jessing
    Analog Circuit Simulation; J. Gregory Rollins
    Interconnect Modeling and Simulation; Michel S. Nakhla and Ramachandra Achar
    LOW POWER ELECTRONICS AND DESIGN
    System-Level Power Management: An Overview; Ali Iranli and Massoud Pedram
    Communication-Based Design for Nanoscale SoCs; Umit Y. Ogras and Radu Marculescu
    Power-Aware Architectural Synthesis; Robert P. Dick, Li Shang and Niraj K. Jha
    Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Low-Power Hard Real-Time Systems; Jihong Kim, Flavius Gruian and Dongkun Shin
    Low-Power Microarchitecture Techniques and Compiler Design Techniques; Emil Talpes and Diana Marculescu
    Architecture and Design Flow Optimizations for Power-Aware FPGAs; Aman Gayasen and Narayanan Vijaykrishnan
    Technology Scaling and Low-Power Circuit Design; Ali Keshavarzi
    AMPLIFIERS
    CMOS Amplifier Design; Harry W. Li, R. Jacob Baker and Donald C. Thelen
    Bipolar Junction Transistor Amplifiers; David J. Comer and Donald T. Comer
    High-Frequency Amplifiers; Chris Toumazou and Alison Burdett
    Operational Transconductance Amplifiers; Mohammed Ismail, Seok-Bae Park, Ayman A. Fayed and R.F. Wassenaar
    LOGIC CIRCUITS
    Expressions of Logic Functions; Saburo Muroga
    Basic Theory of Logic Functions; Saburo Muroga
    Simplification of Logic Expressions; Saburo Muroga
    Binary Decision Diagrams; Shin-ichi Minato and Saburo Muroga
    Logic Synthesis with AND and OR Gates in Two Levels; Saburo Muroga
    Sequential Networks; Saburo Muroga
    Logic Synthesis with AND and OR Gates in Multi-Levels; Yuichi Nakamura and Saburo Muroga
    Logic Properties of Transistor Circuits; Saburo Muroga
    Logic Synthesis with NAND (or NOR) Gates in Multi-Levels; Saburo Muroga
    Logic Synthesis with a Minimum Number of Negative Gates; Saburo Muroga
    Logic Synthesizer with Optimizations in Two Phases; Ko Yoshikawa and Saburo Muroga
    Logic Synthesizer by the Transduction Method; Saburo Muroga
    Emitter-Coupled Logic; Saburo Muroga
    CMOS; Saburo Muroga
    Pass Transistors; Kazuo Yano and Saburo Muroga
    Adders; Naofumi Takagi, Haruyuki Tago, Charles R. Baugh and Saburo Muroga
    Multipliers; Naofumi Takagi, Charles R. Baugh and Saburo Muroga
    Dividers; Naofumi Takagi and Saburo Muroga
    Full-Custom and Semi-Custom Design; Saburo Muroga
    Programmable Logic Devices; Saburo Muroga
    Gate Arrays; Saburo Muroga
    Field-Programmable Gate Arrays; Saburo Muroga
    Cell-Library Design Approach; Saburo Muroga
    Comparison of Different Design Approaches; Saburo Muroga
    MEMORY, REGISTERS AND SYSTEM TIMING
    System Timing; Baris Taskin, Ivan S. Kourtev and Eby G. Friedman
    ROM/PROM/EPROM; Jen-Sheng Hwang
    SRAM; Yuh-Kuang Tseng
    Embedded Memory; Chung-Yu Wu
    Flash Memories; Rick Shih-Jye Shen, Frank Ruei-Ling Lin, Amy Hsiu-Fen Chou, Evans Ching-Song Yang and Charles Ching-Hsiang Hsu
    Dynamic Random Access Memory; Kuo-Hsing Cheng
    Content-Addressable Memory; Chi-Sheng Lin and Bin-Da Liu
    Low-Power Memory Circuits; Martin Margala
    ANALOG CIRCUITS
    Nyquist-Rate ADC and DAC; Bang-Sup Song
    Oversampled Analog-to-Digital and Digital-to-Analog Converters; John W. Fattaruso and Louis A. Williams III
    RF Communication Circuits; Michiel Steyaert, Wouter De Cock and Patrick Reynaert
    PLL Circuits; Muh-Tian Shiue and Chorng-kuang Wang
    Switched-Capacitor Filters; Andrea Baschirotto
    MICROPROCESSOR AND ASIC
    Timing and Signal Integrity Analysis; Abhijit Dharchoudhury, David Blaauw and Shantanu Ganguly
    Microprocessor Design Verification; Vikram Iyengar
    Microprocessor Layout Method; Tanay Karnik
    Architecture; Daniel A. Connors and Wen-mei W. Hwu
    Logic Synthesis for Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Technology; John Lockwood
    TESTING OF DIGITAL SYSTEMS
    Design for Testability and Test Architectures; Dimitri Kagaris, Nick Kanopoulos and Spyros Tragoudas
    Automatic Test Pattern Generation; Spyros Tragoudas
    Built-In Self Test; Dimitri Kagaris
    COMPOUND SEMICONDUCTOR INTEGRATED CIRCUIT TECHNOLOGY
    Compound Semiconductor Materials; Stephen I. Long
    Compound Semiconductor Devices for Analog and Digital Circuits; Donald B. Estreich
    Compound Semiconductor RF Circuits; Donald B. Estreich
    High-Speed Circuit Design Principles; Stephen I. Long
    DESIGN AUTOMATION
    Internet-Based Micro-Electronic Design Automation (IMEDA) Framework; Moon Jung Chung and Heechul Kim
    System-Level Design; Alice C. Parker, Yosef Tirat-Gefen and Suhrid A. Wadekar
    Performance Modeling and Analysis Using VHDL and SystemC; Robert H. Klenke, Jonathan A. Andrews and James H. Aylor
    Embedded Computing Systems and Hardware/Software Co-Design; Wayne Wolf
    Design Automation Technology Roadmap; Donald R. Cottrell
    VLSI SIGNAL PROCESSING
    Computer Arithmetic for VLSI Signal Processing; Earl E. Swartzlander Jr.
    VLSI Architectures for JPEG 2000 EBCOT: Design Techniques and Challenges; Yijun Li and Magdy Bayoumi
    VLSI Architectures for Forward Error-Control Decoders; Arshad Ahmed, Seok-Jun Lee, Mohammad Mansour and Naresh R. Shanbhag
    An Exploration of Hardware Architectures for Face Detection; T. Theocharides, C. Nicopoulos, K. Irick, N. Vijaykrishnan and M.J. Irwin
    Multidimensional Logarithmic Number System; Roberto Muscedere, Vassil S. Dimitrov and Graham A. Jullien
    DESIGN LANGUAGES
    Languages for Design and Implementation of Hardware; Zainalabedin Navabi
    System Level Design Languages; Shahrzad Mirkhani and Zainalabedin Navabi
    RT Level Hardware Description with VHDL; Mahsan Rofouei and Zainalabedin Navabi
    Register Transfer Level Hardware Description with Verilog; Zainalabedin Navabi
    Register-Transfer Level Hardware Description with SystemC; Shahrzad Mirkhani and Zainalabedin Navabi
    System Verilog; Saeed Safari
    VHDL-AMS Hardware Description Language; Naghmeh Karimi and Zainalabedin Navabi
    Verification Languages; Hamid Shojaei and Zainalabedin Navabi
    ASIC and Custom IC Cell Information Representation; Naghmeh Karimi and Zainalabedin Navabi
    Test Languages; Shahrzad Mirkhani and Zainalabedin Navabi
    Timing Description Languages; Naghmeh Karimi and Zainalabedin Navabi
    HDL-Based Tools and Environments; Saeed Safari
    Index

    Biography

    Wai-Kai Chen

    "It is easily the most complete source of information on VLSI available."

    – Books-On-Line, March 2007