Choice Review

The design of a complex integrated circuit (IC) is currently impossible without correct use of computer-aided design (CAD) tools. This book provides the background and technical details to enable the reader to perform a specific IC design. Chapters 1 through 6 provide an introduction to microelectronic theory, metal-oxide-semiconductors (MOS) and devices, fabrication of silicon ICs, design rules, and other IC technologies. Chapter 7 explains how CAD tools encourage, aid, and reinforce good design practice. The last chapter is a design manual for a gate array design (GATEWAY) exercise, used at the authors' University of Edinburgh since 1982, as part of their students' laboratory and course work. Highly recommended for libraries serving electrical engineering and/or computer science students at the undergraduate and graduate level.-I.L. Kosow, emeritus, City University of New York