The interwire spacing in a VLSI chip becomes closer as the VLSI fabrication technology rapidly evolves. Accordingly, it becomes important to consider crosstalk caused by the coupling capacitance between adjacent wires in the layout design for the fast and safe VLSI circuits. The upper bounds of the allowable crosstalk for nets, called crosstalk constraints, are usually given in the design speci...

I’ve believed for a long time that testing concepts are important to VLSI design. That’s why I included testing concepts in my book Modern VLSI Design [Wol98]. In our VLSI course at Princeton, I try to cover testing concepts at each level of the design hierarchy: basic stuck-at fault models and combinational test generation when we talk about combinational logic; sequential test generation when...