Jaume Segura

This undergraduate textbook for electrical and computer engineering students is dedicated solely to digital CMOS electronics. It covers many of the topics of graduate level textbooks, but in an introductory style specifically crafted (and course tested) for undergraduates. Students will not need a prerequisite in analog electronics, allowing instructors flexibility in course scheduling. This book blends the academic and industrial experience of the authors to define a base of electronics instruction for the CMOS chip industry. CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits: A First Course teaches the fundamentals of modern CMOS technology by focusing on central themes and avoiding excessive details. Extensive examples, self-exercises, and end-of chapter problems assist in teaching the current practices of industry and subjects taught by graduate courses in microelectronics. Computer engineering curriculums can remove the analog electronics prerequisite altogether when adopting this book. Key Features: CMOS technology written specifically for (and tested by) undergraduates. Equal treatment to both types of MOSFET transistors that make up computer circuits. Power properties of logic circuits. Physical and electrical properties of metals. Introduction of timing circuit electronics. Introduction of layout. Real-world examples and problem sets.

Get a better understanding of how CMOS circuits work and, more importantly, how they fail! CMOS manufacturing environments are rife with symptoms that can indicate serious test, design, or reliability problems. CMOS Electronics: How It Works, How It Fails provides both practitioners and students in the industry with the electronic knowledge that relates not just to the design of a product, but other important aspects of manufacturing such as testing, reliability, failure analysis, yield-quality issues, and common problems that may occur during production. The majority of those who work in the CMOS integrated circuit (IC) industry have educational backgrounds other than electrical engineering. The first part of the book assumes little knowledge of circuitry and transistors, covering the relevant basic electronics of CMOS ICs at a tutorial level or as a quick review for electrical engineers. The second half offers thorough descriptions of failure mechanisms that both audiences can appreciate. A valuable addition to the CMOS literature, CMOS Electronics addresses such common questions as: *Is the symptom an outcome of random defects, or is it symptomatic with a common failure signature? *Why doesn’t my test program detect certain defects? *Are my test escapes a reliability problem? *Is the defect a bridging problem, an open circuit problem, or a subtle speed-related problem? Providing rapid guidance to the nature of these problems and offering unique descriptions of many circuit failure mechanisms found previously only in research papers, CMOS Electronics is an essential text for practitioners in the CMOS industry, or students headed there.