I want to recommand two good digital IC books:
1. Digital Integrated Circuits (2nd Edition) by Jan M. Rabaey (Author), et al
2. CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits Analysis & Design by Sung-Mo Kang, Yusuf Leblebici
hello, according to me if u are a beginner u should first go through rabaey ---?>digital integrated circuits .it will give u deisgn aspects without bogging u down with many details.then i feel u should go thruogh weste and eshraghian since it makes a bit more indepth treatment about mos device level issues also and some system level deisgn issues.
I have teach VLSI subject for 3 semesters.I used 3 different books. the first one is Intro to VLSI circuit and system by uyemura.2nd one is digital Integrated Circuit 2nd ed by rabaey and last semester i used CMOS VLSI design by Weste.
I find that each book have its own advantages and disadvantages.Uyemura offers a simple and good fundamental for newbies but do not offer the indepth knowledge that offered by rabaey's and weste (feel something missing ..). It also have an excellent companion text that deal with layout using Ledit(forgot the title). I 'm used to rabaey's book since my study at unsw and have no problem to adopt the text but i find that students struggle to cope with the materials as the some fundamental things are not explained.It also discuss the semiconductor device part quite in depth and students need to read back there solid state subjects. I think this is the hardest part in rabaey's book as the emphasis is more on device level.Thankfully in 2005,weste come out with a very excellent book and provide some intro and fundamentals plus simpler explaination on certain subjects that rabaey did not include.The emphasis is more on ckt level and system level. However,there are some important parts that are not included or briefly explained in weste but explained in detail in rabaey.Therefore, my conclusion is to integrate both rabaey and weste . rabaey should serve as the main ref but weste must be integrate in order to explain the intro or fundamental of certain concept in rabaey.
read weste and read rabaey then find the missing link ....