Karim Abbas received his Ph.D. in electrical engineering from UCLA in 2009. Since then he has been an assistant professor at Cairo University in Cairo, Egypt. His main area of interest is the intersection of systems level design and digital circuits design. He has been doing research on and teaching digital circuit design for nineteen years.

Provides an exhaustive reference on digital circuits, covering the entire design flow from all levels of abstraction, from the physical level to system level

Assumes only knowledge of basic mathematics and physics, making the content accessible to readers with diverse backgrounds

Tells a complete story of digital circuit design, starting from a simple physics account in section 1.1 and ending with a discussion of commercial reliability in section 14.8, while each chapter is also self-contained, allowing it to be read in isolation

Does not separate practical advice from theoretical foundation, rather treats the two as equally important and intrinsically related

Includes extensive examples that are discussed not just as illustrative cases, but as a fundamental way to establish concepts

Introduction.- Devices.- Ratioed logic.- CMOS.- Logical effort.- Dynamic logic.- Pipelines.- CMOS Process.- Design Flow.- HDL.- Scaling.- Arithmetic.- Memories.- Wires & Clocks.- Testing.- Glossary.