Introduction to the Design of Integrated Circuits

Abstract

This book has three main goals: First, we want to show that the development of modern design procedures for integrated circuits which have simple and formal interfaces with the design engineer as well as with the production process (standard design procedures) have resulted in new ways of solving user-specific problems: A new kind of application technology has thus been formed. It might find as wide an application as the programming technology for software which, in the beginning of the sixties, became a universal application technology. Second, we want to give general introduction to the methods of designing integrated circuits. We will discuss basic technologies as well as various methods of layout design and required testing concepts.