Cmos Vlsi Design: A Circuits and Systems Perspective

This book is a very nice compliment to the second edition. Pro's even being dated, it is still very insightful for an overview of VLSI and even provides some insight into logistics, a little bit of something for everyone. Con's even though the cover of this book is covered in software defined radio masks, there are only six pages about software defined radio not enough for me... I have already given this book away but I believe it had both Verilog and VHDL examples.

The content of the book is perfect and the print is clear. The book is brand new international edition. Nice purchase

It arrives today. Quite good second handbook. Thank you.

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. Update 10/4/2015 Looking through my reviews I remembered I never meant to give this a one-star review-somehow my browser and the Amazon site weren't working well when I wrote the original review and it kept changing my review to one star no matter what I did. Technically, this is a fine book, most of my issues were with the presentation and organization.

This book met my expectation as it was perfect even though it was used. The amount I paid was worth it.

the book is in extremely good condition. And shipping is very fast. I will definitely visit again if I want to by something I need.

Book received as described in the announce.

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.

Can I say that this is the Indian Version of this book'''' All in black & white and missed several chapters in the end as well. Yeah I know it is cheaper than the normal English Version, but I expected sth more than this one.

This book is recommended for anyone who wants to know everything about VLSI. Beware do not get the second edition of this book, it is of no use. Derivation of every equation is explained neatly and concepts are given in an easily understandable way. This book is worth its cost.

Even though it is a good book and have very good content still I recommend 4th Edition of this book.

Good

The page number of a topic in the index does not match the actual page which makes it not very useful for the working professional. Hopefully it's fixed in the fourth. The book itself is OK. Too much space is devoted to dynamic and domino logic, which are not very relevant anymore. The working professional should look at the book by Rabaey (Second Edition).