CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective (3rd Edition) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Neil Weste, David Harris
Publisher: Addison Wesley
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 236160
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 3
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 800
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.8
Dimensions (in): 9.2 x 7.9 x 1.6
ISBN: 0321149017
Dewey Decimal Number: 621.395
EAN: 9780321149015
ASIN: 0321149017
Publication Date: May 21, 2004
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 CMOS VLSI Design Book Review February 17, 2008
After just going over the first few chapters, have found that book does live up to it's title. It's a good book to have handy when designing basic chips.
 Great Book April 3, 2007
Comprehensive treatment of the subject, very clear and easy to understand. Also has advanced topics.
Generally good coverage of VLSI design February 13, 2007
Good book covering CMOS VLSI design. Excellent turtorial on Verilog in the appendix.
 Good for reference, but not for beginners January 22, 2007
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I recently taught a senior undergraduate/first year graduate introductory course with VLSI with this book as the text. I found this book to be confusing and frustrating to the students. In order to lecture on VLSI topics in what I thought was a logical order, I had to jump around in the text book. My main complaint is that the book is organized more like an encylopedia and not like a textbook. As such I think it makes a very good reference for those with previous training or experience in the VLSI field, but confusing and unhelpful for those learning the field for the first time.
Oddly, the second edition of Weste (Weste and Eshragian) is far better organized and much more coherent in its development of topics within VLSI. I found myself often going back to the second edition when I was preparing lectures.
A second complaint is that the book introduces logical effort as a primary topic early on in the discussion of switching delays, in my opinion at the expense of discussion of the fundamental circuit mechanisms in switching delay (which again are discussed in detail in Weste 2nd Ed). The emphasis on logical effort continues throughout the text. Again, a choice that is reasonable if your audience is experienced engineers but not for an introductory course.
I will probably change texts for next year, most likely to the text by Rabaey et al, which appears to be much better organized for an introduction to VLSI. In sum, Weste 3rd edition might make a good text for a second or third course in VLSI, or a good reference for practitioners in the field, but not a good text for a first course in VLSI.
Excellent February 5, 2006
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This edition is as useful as the earlier editions. Besides providing insight on almost all the topics of VLSI, the third edition also addresses several issues related to the sub-micron technology.
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