The art of transforming a circuit idea into a chip has changed
permanently. Formerly, the electrical, physical and geometrical tasks
were predominant. Later, mainly net lists of gates had to be
constructed. Nowadays, hardware description languages (HDL) similar to
programming languages are central to digital circuit design. HDL-based
design is the main subject of this book.
After emphasizing the economic importance of chip design as a key
technology, the book deals with VLSI design (Very Large Scale
Integration), the design of modern RISC processors, the hardware
description language VERILOG, and typical modeling techniques. Numerous
examples as well as a VERILOG training simulator are included on a disk.