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text Digital IC Design Rabaey
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DATE: september 1996
TITLE: Text on Digital IC Design by Rabaey



Text on Digital IC Design by Rabaey

"Digital Integrated Circuits: A Design Perspective" by Jan M. Rabaey 
is a practical text which bridges the gap between the circuit perspective 
and system perspective of digital integrated circuit design. 
Beginning with a solid discussion on the operation of electronic devices 
and in-depth analysis of the building blocks of digital design, the text 
maintains a consistent, logical flow of subject matter throughout, 
addressing today's most significant and compelling industry topics, 
such as the impact of interconnect, signal integrity, design for low power, 
issues in timing and clocking, and design methodologies.

It offers the following features:

- Treats design from device up-to-module level, creating 
a solid foundation for our next generation of design technicians
- Examines cutting-edge topics in design, such as complex
gates, adders, multipliers, registers, controllers and memories.
- It not only covers MOS but also addresses other high-performance technologies
such as bipolar, BiCMOS, GasAs and superconducting.
- Focuses on practical design issues, with examples, simulations,
design problems and case studies creating practical knowledge applicable 
in industrial design.
- Offers perspectives on the future evolution of design 
practice at the end of each chapter to put issues discussed in 
a broader vision.
- Supplements and reinforces learning with numerous illustrations, challenging
exercises, reality-based design problems, and extensive reference lists.
- An extensive instructional package is available over the internet from the

authors web-site.
It includes design software, transparency masters, extra problem sets and extra
design problems, actual layouts, and hardware and software laboratories.

The book is intended for a senior-level digital circuit design class, but also
supplies more advanced material that can be used as the basis for a graduate
class. The book has been class-tested for three years at a number of schools, 
both in the U.S. and abroad.

TABLE OF CONTENTS
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	1. Introduction
	   Historical Perspective and Issues in Design
PART I. A CIRCUIT PERSPECTIVE
	2. The Devices
	3. The Inverter (CMOS and ECL)
	4. Designing Combinational Logic Gates in CMOS
	5. Very High Performance Digital Circuits
	6. Designing Sequential Logic Ccircuits
PART II. A SYSTEM PERSPECTIVE
	7. Designing Arithmetic Building Blocks
	8. Coping with Interconnect
	9. Timing Issues in Digital Circuits
	10. Designing Memory and Array Structures
	11. Design Methodologies

Copyright 1996, 702 pp., Cloth (0-13-178609-1), $ 77.00

To order the book:
	Prentice Hall
	(Simon and Schuster)
        Order DepaArtment
	Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, 07457
	1-800-643-5506
or consult: WWW

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