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90% of US Universities prescribe this book as a required text for their VLSI design courses, so you may have to follow suit. But the book is badly written, jumping from topic to topic, and has very poor English in some sections.
Additionally, the production quality of the Indian edition is very poor. In my copy the pages started coming off within three months of purchase.
I just hope a better book comes along soon. Meanwhile, you may have no choice till then. So, if you do end up buying the book, supplement your knowledge with other sources.
I don't agree with the earlier review. If world's best Universities do recommend this book then there must be some reason behind it. The reason is the quality of VLSI material covered in it. This book teaches to practice VLSI at a practical level. You can build a 8 bit microprocessor using a VLSI tool called Electric, if you would have gone through the book companion website. Everything is made available.
Above all, which book in VLSI will ever tell you about the Sequensing Methodology adopted by Pentium Processors. I mean every concept dicussed in the book has a practical examples explained in parallel(Case Studies). There is a wonderful section at the end of every chapter called "Fallacy and Pitfalls" which talk about the reality, lesson's learned and redefined practices being undertaken in VLSI Industry.
One thing is really true, the quality of an Indian Edition. Every page is over occupied by print material, the overall organization is really Pathetic. Above all, the worse thing is an inclusion of an Indian Author (Mr Banerjee). He had simply messed the organisation of this wonderful book. Inspiring sections like Pitfalls and Fallacies are not at all there in an Indian edition. Design example of an 8-bit Microprocessor has been replaced with a really stupid DSP case study. I don' t what point Mr Banerjee wants to prove by replacing very important sections and above all, by changing the fundamental design example.
I have the original edition and also recently, I have got 4th edition of the same book from US. The new edition is really an inspiring read...................
I highly recommend this book, provided, you get hands on an Original Edition........
| Book: | CMOS VLSI Design: A Circuits And Systems Perspective |
| Author: | Neil H. E. Weste, David Harris, Ayan Banerjee |
| ISBN: | 8177585681 |
| ISBN-13: | 9788177585681,978-8177585681 |
| Binding: | Paperback |
| Publishing Date: | 2006 |
| Publisher: | Pearson |
| Edition: | 3rd |
| Number of Pages: | 684 |
| Language: | English |