VLSI Book
Top-Down Digital VLSI Design,
From Architectures to Gate-Level Circuits and FPGAs.
by Hubert Kaeslin
Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Boston.
ISBN 978-0-12-800730-3
This book was written by Prof. Hubert Kaeslin, former head of Microelectronics Design Center, who has established the VLSI lecture series at ETH Zurich and held the VLSI lecture series for more than 30 years. The present courses rely on this book.
Book highlights
- Top-down approach.
- Systematic overview on architecture optimization techniques.
- A chapter on field-programmable logic devices, their technologies and architectures.
- Key concepts behind both VHDL and SystemVerilog without too many syntactical details.
- A proven naming convention for signals and variables.
- Introduction to assertion-based verification.
- Concepts for re-usable simulation testbenches.
- Emphasis on synchronous design and HDL code portability.
- Comprehensive discussion of clocking disciplines.
- Largely self-contained (required previous knowledge summarized in two appendices).
- Emphasis on knowledge likely to remain useful in the years to come.
- Plenty of detailed illustrations.
- Checklists, hints and warnings for various situations.
- A concept proven in classroom teaching and actual design projects.
- Comes with HDL code examples, presentation slides, and solutions to problems.
For further details see external pagehttps://www.elsevier.com/books/top-down-digital-vlsi-design/kaeslin/978-0-12-800730-3
ETH students may want to know that the book is available at www.books.ethz.ch