Digital Integrated Circuits - Analysis and Design

There is no field of enterprise today more dynamic or more challenging than Digital Integrated Circuits. But because of its rapid development, the field has quickly outgrown most of the standard textbooks. The field is also decidedly interdisciplinary. Engineers now must understand materials, physics, devices, processing electromagnetics, computer tools, and economics along with circuits and design rules, but few if any texts take the interdisciplinary approach that best prepares students for their future studies and practice.Author John Ayers designed Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design to meet three primary objectives:·Take an interdisciplinary approach that will stay relevant for years to come·Provide broad coverage of the field relevant to students interested in designing integrated circuits and to those aiming towards designing with integrated circuits·Focus on the underlying principles rather than the details of current technologies that will soon be obsoleteRich with pedagogical features and supplementary materials, this book appears destined to set a new standard for digital integrated circuits texts. It provides all of the materials you need to offer the best possible course for engineering or computer science students, and it's clear, systematic presentation and wealth of solved examples build the solid, practical foundation today's students need.Prerequisites: Students will need an upper-level undergraduate engineering and science background with courses in circuits, electronics, and digital logic.

Exponential improvement in functionality and performance of digital integrated circuits has revolutionized the way we live and work. The continued scaling down of MOS transistors has broadened the scope of use for circuit technology to the point that texts on the topic are generally lacking after a few years.

The second edition of Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design focuses on timeless principles with a modern interdisciplinary view that will serve integrated circuits engineers from all disciplines for years to come. Providing a revised instructional reference for engineers involved with Very Large Scale Integrated Circuit design and fabrication, this book delves into the dramatic advances in the field, including new applications and changes in the physics of operation made possible by relentless miniaturization.

This book was conceived in the versatile spirit of the field to bridge a void that had existed between books on transistor electronics and those covering VLSI design and fabrication as a separate topic. Like the first edition, this volume is a crucial link for integrated circuit engineers and those studying the field, supplying the cross-disciplinary connections they require for guidance in more advanced work.

For pedagogical reasons, the author uses SPICE level 1 computer simulation models but introduces BSIM models that are indispensable for VLSI design. This enables users to develop a strong and intuitive sense of device and circuit design by drawing direct connections between the hand analysis and the SPICE models.

With four new chapters, more than 200 new illustrations, numerous worked examples, case studies, and support provided on a dynamic website, this text significantly expands concepts presented in the first edition.

There is no field of enterprise today more dynamic or challenging than Digital Integrated Circuits. But because of its rapid growth, the field has quickly outgrown most of the available books. Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design takes a practical, interdisciplinary approach that focuses on underlying principles rather than details of current technologies that will soon be obsolete. Ideal both as a textbook and reference, it provides an evolutionary treatment of design and covers both bipolar and MOS concepts. It includes Quick Reference tables, incorporates SPICE examples and exercises, and appendices that furnish design rules, constants, symbols, and definitions of key terms There is no field of enterprise today more dynamic or more challenging than Digital Integrated Circuits. But because of its rapid development, the field has quickly outgrown most of the standard textbooks. The field is also decidedly interdisciplinary. Engineers now must understand materials, physics, devices, processing electromagnetics, computer tools, and economics along with circuits and design rules, but few if any texts take the interdisciplinary approach that best prepares students for their future studies and practice. Author John Ayers designed Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design to meet three primary objectives: The 20th century brought about an explosion of electronics technology that drastically changed the way we live and work today.