Ever since the point contact transistor was announced by the Bell Telephone Laboratories in 1948, a considerable effort has been directed toward the improvement of transistor manufacturing and circuit design techniques. As a result, the transistor has now evolved to a point where it is suitable for many applications, both as a direct replacement for and as a supplement to electron tubes.

Table of Contents:

Chapter I: INTRODUCTION

Chapter II: BASIC EDITING

Chapter III: HIERARCHY

Chapter IV: THE DISPLAY

Chapter V: WIRE PROPERTIES

Chapter VI: ADVANCED EDITING

Chapter VII: DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS

Chapter VIII: CREATING NEW ENVIRONMENTS

Chapter IX: TOOLS

Chapter X: SIMULATION

Chapter XI: LANGUAGE INTERPRETERS

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The subject of VLSI systems spans a broad range of disciplines, including semiconductor devices and processing, integrated electronic circuits, digital logic, design disciplines and tools for creating complex systems, and the architecture, algorithms, and applications of complete VLSI systems. The Addison-Wesley VLSI Systems Series is being organized as a set of textbooks and research references that present the best current work across this exciting and diverse field, with each book providing for its subject a perspective that ties it to related disciplines.

Electronics is a science, and a very accessible science at that. With
other areas of scientific study, expensive equipment is generally
required to perform any non-trivial experiments. Not so with
electronics. Many advanced concepts may be explored using parts and
equipment totaling under a few hundred US dollars. This is good,
because hands-on experimentation is vital to gaining scientific
knowledge about any subject.

Digital technology continues to change and with it changes both our understanding of digital systems and the nature of the cost-effective ways to create them. The development has continued to be towards greater performance and the accomplishment of more complex information processing tasks. Simultaneously it has continued toward cheaper, more reliable systems, and the accomplishment .of an ever widening spectrum of tasks. This joint development gives no hint yet of slackening.