PrefaceChapter 1 Introduction 1.1 History of Integrated Circuits 1.2 Roadmap of IC Technology 1.3 ASIC 1.4 Design Flow 1.5 CAD Tools 1.6 AnASIC Design Project MSDAP 1.7 How to Use This Book 1.8 Summery 1.9 Problems ReferencesChapter 2 VLSI Design Perspective and Flow 2.1 Introduction 2.2 VLSI Technology Trend 2.3 SoC 2.4 Methodology for Custom and Semi-custom IC Design 2.4.1 Gate array 2.4.2 Standard cell 2.4.3 FPGA 2.5 Design Domain and Perspective 2.6 Design Flow 2.7 Design Task 2.8 Summary 2.9 Problems ReferencesChapter 3 Specification Development 3.1 Introduction 3.2 AnASIC Project MSDAP 3.3 An Overall View of the Specific Requirement 3.3.1 The required computation method by the MSDAP 3.3.2 Additional information for the specification 3.4 The System Setting 3.5 I/O Interface and Pins 3.5.1 Pins and their assignments 3.5.2 Signal format and waveform 3.6 Other Issues of the Specification 3.7 Summary