Introduction to VLSI systems

The book is written to introduce all Electrical Engineering and Computer Science students to integrated system architecture and design. Combined with individual study in related research areas and participation in large system design projects, this text provides the basis for a graduate course-sequence in integrated systems. MOS devices and circuits are considered along with integrated system fabrication, data and control flow in systematic structures, the implementation of integrated system designs, the overview of an LSI computer system, the design of the OM2 data path chip, architecture and design of system controllers, the design of the OM2 controller chip, system timing, highly concurrent systems, and the physics of computational systems. Attention is given to alternative control structures, the stored-program machine, microprogrammed control, algorithms for VLSI processor arrays, and hierarchically organized machines.