Modern VLSI Design: Systems on Silicon (2nd Edition)

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Summary: Quite a nice book for beginner
Review: explanatory, but not much in detail.

Perhaps, lack of hands on project, and only a bit of update from the previos book.

Better if the design figures are in color.

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Summary: an extremely poorly written text.
Review: I used this textbook for a course in VLSI. Never have I read a book in its second edition with so many errors, in addition to such an unclear presentation of material. There are huge swaths of important material on physical characteristics of semiconductors that is either missing or wrong. I would not recommend this book for use in a course in VLSI. Instead, I would recommend Jan Rabaey's text as a much better alternative.

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Summary: VERY unclear and confusing!!
Review: This book is very poorly written, unclear, and confusing! It skips a whole lot of steps in every example it provides, pulling numbers, measurements, and dimensions out of thin air, without explaining where they came from. Even worse, it does not bother to explain the steps it is following, just a bunch of formulas with no explaination as to where they came from or where the numbers came from.

I strongly recommend that you DO NOT buy this book!

Rating:
Summary: VERY unclear and confusing!!
Review: This book is very poorly written, unclear, and confusing! It skips a whole lot of steps in every example it provides, pulling numbers, measurements, and dimensions out of thin air, without explaining where they came from. Even worse, it does not bother to explain the steps it is following, just a bunch of formulas with no explaination as to where they came from or where the numbers came from.

I strongly recommend that you DO NOT buy this book!