The current cutting-edge VLSI circuit design technologies provide end-users with many applications, increased processing power and improved cost effectiveness. This trend is accelerating, with significant implications on future VLSI and systems design. VLSI design engineers are always in demand for front-end and back-end design applications.
The book aims to give future and current VSLI design engineers a robust understanding of the underlying principles of the subject. It not only focuses on circuit design processes obeying VLSI rules but also on technological aspects of fabrication. The Hardware Description Language (HDL) Verilog is explained along with its modelling style. The book also covers CMOS design from the digital systems level to the circuit level. The book clearly explains fundamental principles and is a guide to good design practices.
The book is intended as a reference book for senior undergraduate, first-year post graduate students, researchers as well as academicians in VLSI design, electronics & electrical engineering and materials science. The basics and applications of VLSI design from digital system design to IC fabrication and FPGA Prototyping are each covered in a comprehensive manner. At the end of each unit is a section with technical questions including solutions which will serve as an excellent teaching aid to all readers.
Technical topics discussed in the book include:
Digital System Design
Design flow for IC fabrication and FPGA based prototyping
Verilog HDL
IC Fabrication Technology
CMOS VLSI Design
Miscellaneous (It covers basics of Electronics, and Reconfigurable computing, PLDs, Latest technology etc.)
Bhargavaz, Cherry: - Cherry Bhargava is working as an associate professor and head, VLSI domain, School of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India. She has more than 15 years of teaching and research experience. She is a Ph.D. (ECE), IKGPTU, M.Tech (VLSI Design & and CAD) Thapar University, and B.Tech (Electronics and Instrumentation) from Kurukshetra University. She is GATE qualified with an All India Rank of 428. She has authored about 50 technical research papers in SCI, Scopus indexed quality journals, and national/international conferences. She has 12 books related to reliability, artificial intelligence, and digital electronics to her credit. She has registered 3 copyrights and filed 20 patents. She is recipient of various national and international awards for being outstanding faculty in engineering and excellent researcher. She is an active reviewer and editorial member of various prominent SCI and Scopus indexed journals. She is a lifetime member of the IET, IAENG, NSPE, IAOP, WASET, and reliability research group. Her area of expertise includes reliability of electronic systems, digital electronics, VLSI design, and artificial intelligence and related technologies.
Khanal, Gaurav: - Gaurav Mani Khanal is working as a post-doctoral researcher in DSPVLSI lab, Department of Electronics Engineering, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy. He has earned his Ph.D. in Electronics Engineering (Memristor and Memristive System design and Fabrication) from University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome (Italy). He has obtained an Advanced Master Degree in Wireless Systems and Related Technology from Politechnico Di Torino (Polytechnic University of Turin), Turin (Italy). He has completed his Master of Science (MS) in Microelectronics and System Design from Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool (United Kingdom). He possesses excellent knowledge of 2D material (esp. ZnO-Graphene and their composite) based low power semiconductor electronics devices (Theory and Fabrication), Memristor/Resistive switching, Device Modelling, Fabrication (Spin and Dip coating), and Characterization (XRD, SEM, and EIS). He has working experience with tools like Pspice, MATLAB, Model- Sim, Tanner, and Knowledge Verilog HDL for digital system design. He has hands on experience in application development with Arduino, Xilinx Spartan FPGA, and R-pi boards.
