Fundamentals of Layout Design for Electronic Circuits [Paperback]

This book covers the fundamental knowledge of layout design from the ground up, addressing both physical design, as generally applied to digital circuits, and analog layout. Such knowledge provides the critical awareness and insights a layout designer must possess to convert a structural description produced during circuit design into the physical layout used for IC/PCB fabrication. The book introduces the technological know-how to transform silicon into functional devices, to understand the technology for which a layout is targeted (Chap. 2). Using this core technology knowledge as the foundation, subsequent chapters delve deeper into specific constraints and aspects of physical design, such as interfaces, design rules and libraries (Chap. 3), design flows and models (Chap. 4), design steps (Chap. 5), analog design specifics (Chap. 6), and finally reliability measures (Chap. 7). Besides serving as a textbook for engineering students, this book is a foundational reference for todays circuit designers.  

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Introduction.- Technology Know-How: From Silicon to Devices.- Bridges to Technology: Interfaces, Design Rules and Libraries.- Methodologies for Physical Design: Models, Styles, Tasks, and Flows.- Steps in Physical Design: From Netlist to Layout Post Processing.- Special Layout Techniques for Analog IC Design.- Addressing Reliability in Physical Design.    Jens Lienig is the director of the Institute of Electromechanical and Electronic Design at Dresden University of Technology, Germany. He received his Ph.D. in the field of computer-aided physical design of multi-chip modules and was employed as a researcher at University of Virginia, Charlottesville and Concordia University, MolSM