Course Resources
Bibliography
1. Introduction to VLSI Systems, Carver Mead and Lynn Conway, Addison-Wesley, 1979. The original, prepublication version of this classic book can be found on Lynn Conway's web site (Mead-Conway draft textbook).
2. Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective, Jan M. Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan and Borivoje Nicolic, Prentice Hall Electronics and VLSI Series, 2003. This is an excellent book for intermediate digital IC design (Rabaey-Chandrakasan-Nicolic book).
3. Basics of CMOS Cell Design, Etienne Sicard and Sonia Delmas-Bendhia, McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2007.
VLSI Resources
International Solid-State Circuits Conference (ISSCC). Sponsored by the IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society (SSCS) this meeting is held annually in San Francisco. This is the forum where advances in integrated circuits and systems get reported first to the public! To get your paper in this conference, you must sign your life that you will not make any disclosures of your work before this conference. Usually the place to be just the weekend and week after the SuperBowl!
International Electron Devices Meeting (IEDM). The annual conference/forum of the IEEE Electron Devices Society (EDS) focuses more on technological innovations and devices. Find out what is the latest in fabrication technology, memory cells and sensors.
International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS). Sponsored by the IEEE Circuits and System Society (CAS) this meeting has a more broad audience, mostly academic with interests ranging from devices to circuits and systems as well as signal processing.
The above society also have their corresponding journals: Journal of Solid-State Circuits, Transaction on Electron Devices and Transactions on Circuits and Systems I and II. The above journals are available on-line through IEEE Explore. Access to this resource is free if you do it from JHU or through a VPN tunnel to JHU.
Computer Aided Design (CAD) Tools
A set of computer programs that can be used to design and simulate circuits and architectures can be found here.
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