CMOS VLSI Design

这几乎是被VLSI学习者口口相传的'圣经'——不是因为它面面俱到，而是因为它始终站在'电路与系统'的视角讲设计，而非堆砌器件物理。读者反复提及的是它'层层递进'的结构：从逻辑电路到系统级，原理概括得清晰透彻，配合大量习题与实例，足以支撑起一门完整的芯片设计课程。更难得的是它的'耐读性'：有人从硕士读到工作四年，每个阶段重翻都有新收获，概念随时可以'refresh'。它尤其适合需要系统建立VLSI设计框架的人；但也要坦白——模拟方向读者会觉得参考价值有限，后半部分难度也会让不少人'超出能力范围'。正因如此，它更像一本值得反复回味的专业书，而非翻完即弃的入门手册。

David Money Harris Associate Professor of Engineering at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, CA, holds a Ph.D. from Stanford University and S.B. and M.Eng. degrees from MIT. His research interests include CMOS VLSI design, microprocessors, and computer arithmetic. He holds a dozen patents, is the author of three other books in the field of digital design and three hiking guidebooks, and has designed chips at Sun Microsystems, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, and Evans & Sutherland. Neil Weste is a member of the faculty at the Department of Electronic Engineering, Macquarie University; Adjunct Professor of Electrical Engineering at The University of Adelaide; and Director, Engineering at Cisco’s Wireless Networking Business Unit. He is a Fellow of the IEEE for his contributions to custom IC design, and a peer elected member of the IEEE Solid State Circuits Society. In 1997 he cofounded Radiata Communications (with David Skellern) which designed the first chip sets for the IEEE 802.11a WLAN standard; in 2001 Radiata was acquired by Cisco. He has served as department head at Bell Laboratories; leader of design projects for Symbolics, Inc.; and as president of TLW, Inc., an IC engineering company that completed groundbreaking chip designs for companies such as North American Philips, Analog Devices, AT&T Microelectronics and Thomson Consumer Electronics.