Nanometer CMOS ICs

This textbook provides a comprehensive fully-updated introduction to the essentials of nanometer CMOS integrated circuits.  It includes aspects of scaling to even beyond 12nm CMOS technologies and designs.  It clearly describes the fundamental CMOS operating principles and presents substantial insight into the various aspects of design implementation and application.  Coverage includes all associated disciplines of nanometer CMOS ICs including physics lithography technology design memories VLSI power consumption variability reliability and signal integrity testing yield failure analysis packaging scaling trends and road blocks.  The text is based upon in-house Philips NXP Semiconductors Applied Materials ASML IMEC ST-Ericsson TSMC etc. courseware which to date has been completed by more than 4500 engineers working in a large variety of related disciplines: architecture design test fabrication process packaging failure analysis and software.