• Stresses computer tools throughout--nearly every chapter includes SPICE example and exercises
• Includes laboratory exercises in most chapters, serving modern courses that integrate lecture and laboratory components
• Presents bipolar as well as MOS concepts
• Incorporates more than 100 solved examples that reinforce the concepts, illustrate numerical quantities, and show the relative importance of different effects
• Provides a Quick Reference table in each chapter that presents the important concepts, equations, design rules, and diagrams
• Summarizes the basic properties and physics of semiconductors, diodes, bipolar transistors, and field-effect transistors in review chapters
• Contains Web references that include sources of data sheets, SPICE models, and application notes
• Prepares students for courses in VLSI design and VLSI fabricationWith qualifying course adoptions, you'll also get a complete Solutions Manual, and an Instructors Manual with lecture transparencies. The Instructors Manual contains PowerPoint slides along with equations, derivations, and solved problems that you can write out during your presentations.

There is no field of enterprise today more dynamic or more challenging than Digital Integrated Circuits. But because of its rapid development, the field has quickly outgrown most of the standard textbooks. The field is also decidedly interdisciplinary. Engineers now must understand materials, physics, devices, processing electromagnetics, computer tools, and economics along with circuits and design rules, but few if any texts take the interdisciplinary approach that best prepares students for their future studies and practice.

Author John Ayers designed Digital Integrated Circuits: Analysis and Design to meet three primary objectives:

• Take an interdisciplinary approach that will stay relevant for years to come
• Provide broad coverage of the field relevant to students interested in designing integrated circuits and to those aiming towards designing with integrated circuits
• Focus on the underlying principles rather than the details of current technologies that will soon be obsolete

Rich with pedagogical features and supplementary materials, this book appears destined to set a new standard for digital integrated circuits texts. It provides all of the materials you need to offer the best possible course for engineering or computer science students, and it's clear, systematic presentation and wealth of solved examples build the solid, practical foundation today's students need.

Prerequisites: Students will need an upper-level undergraduate engineering and science background with courses in circuits, electronics, and digital logic.