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From: Philippe O. Pouliquen (philippe AT alpha DOT ece.jhu.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 01 2001 - 15:59:23 EST

  • Next message: Mark N. Martin: "Re: good text for senior level VLSI systems design course"

    Mark Martin wrote:
    > One that I am presently considering is:
    > 
    > "VLSI Design" by M. Michael Vai CRC Press 2000 ISBN 0-8493-1876-9
    > $89.95
    >
    > I can scan a promo flyer they sent me if there is interest.
    
    OK, but not as an attachment if possible.  Does CRC have a web link
    for this book contents?
    
    > As for a book written around Magic am I curious what it would cover.
    > IF you envision somting similar to the Uyemura book using L-Edit, my
    > opinion is why??  I can't see why anyone would buy such a book since
    > Magic is already free and comes with decent tutorials.
    
    You misunderstand: Not a book about layout (which is what the
    tutorials cover), but a book about VLSI circuits.  In other words, a
    book in which the examples/problems are written with Magic as the
    layout tool.
    
    Rajit wrote:
    > I'm teaching a new VLSI course at Cornell next year covering clocked
    > + asynchronous digital VLSI design.  Right now I'm going to be
    > creating a "course packet" consisting of about 150-200 pages of
    > notes I've written + chapters from various texts, including Weste &
    > Eshraghian, Mead & Conway, and other miscellaneous books that are
    > topic-specific (like a book on arithmetic, for instance), and
    > papers. The packet also contains a bunch of notes that I wrote at
    > various points (some from the Caltech digital VLSI class, some for
    > the classes I've taught at Cornell).  I can post the contents of the
    > packet to this list once I figure out what it will contain (if
    > people are interested).
    
    I'd be interested, but how much of this is in electronic form? (I mean
    like LaTeX source, MS Word, Postscript figures,...)  I don't mind
    handwritten slides when its my own writing, but I wouldn't feel
    confortable teaching with slides handwritten by someone else...
    
    Philippe Pouliquen
    The Johns Hopkins University
    
    
    PS: Mark, stop heckling me, and get back to work on our 1120S :-)
    


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