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Growing technological requirements and the widespread acceptance of sophisti
cated electronic devices have created an unprecedented demand for large-scale,
complex, integrated circuits. Meeting these demands has required technological
advances in materials and processing equipment, significant increases in the num
ber of individuals involved in integrated circuit design, and an increased emphasis
on effectively utilizing the computer to aid in the design.
Advances in growing fields, such as Very Large Scale Integrated Cir
cuits (VLSI), generally parallel "graduate lever4 academic and industrial research
efforts. As a result, these concents quite naturally appear initially in university
curricula at the graduate level. However, one must inevitably consider how to
present this new material to a wider range of students with less sophsticated
backgrounds. Integrated circuit design of LSI and VLSI systems is an area where
both the required technical background and demand indicate that the material can
and should be introduced at the undergraduate level. It is the purpose of this text
to accomplish this objective.
The textbook has grown out of notes prepared for a one-semester senior level
course that presents the fundamentals of integrated circuit design. This course has
been offered every semester at Texas A&M University since the fall of 1981.
Sufficient technical background for this text can be provided by an introductory
level circuits course and an introductory digital logic course. Limited knowledge
of material covered in an introductory electronics course is also assumed, but
those sections requiring this knowledge can be either skipped or be augmented
by the instructor without a major loss of continuity. |
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