Primary literature

Books

  • Advanced semiconductor memories: architectures, designs, and applications
    Ashok K. Sharma
    2002 (Publisher: John Wiley & Sons)
  • MOSFET models for VLSI circuit simulation: theory and practice
    Narain D. Arora
    2012 (Publisher: Springer)
  • Brandon’s Semiconductor Simulator
    Brandon Li
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Articles

  • Formal Models of Integrated Circuits for Transistor Level Electrical Verification
    Oussama Oulkaid
    PhD thesis
    2025 (Université Claude Beranrd Lyon 1)
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  • Formal approach to hardware analysis
    Niklas Gerard Traub
    PhD thesis
    1986 (Publisher: The University of Edinburgh)
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  • Logical analysis of systems comprising feedback loops
    René Thomas
    Journal of theoretical biology, volume 73, number 4, pages 631–656
    1978 (Publisher: Elsevier)

  • A 30 year retrospective on Dennard’s MOSFET scaling paper
    Mark Bohr
    IEEE Solid-State Circuits Society Newsletter, volume 12, number 1, pages 11–13
    2007 (Publisher: IEEE)
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  • Thermodynamics of information processing in small systems
    Takahiro Sagawa
    Progress of theoretical physics, volume 127, number 1, pages 1–56
    2012 (Publisher: Oxford University Press)
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  • MOSFET: Basics, characteristics, and characterization
    Samares Kar
    High Permittivity Gate Dielectric Materials, pages 47–152
    2013 (Publisher: Springer)
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  • Thermodynamics of information
    Juan M.R. Parrondo, Jordan M. Horowitz, and Takahiro Sagawa
    Nature physics, volume 11, number 2, pages 131–139
    2015 (Publisher: Nature)

  • The physics of forgetting: Thermodynamics of information at IBM 1959–1982
    Aaron Sidney Wright
    Perspectives on Science, volume 24, number 1, pages 112–141
    2016 (Publisher: MIT Press)
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  • Entropy: From thermodynamics to information processing
    Jordão Natal, Ivonete Ávila, Victor Batista Tsukahara, Marcelo Pinheiro, and Carlos Dias Maciel
    Entropy, volume 23, number 10, pages 1340
    2021 (Publisher: MDPI)
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  • A charge domain P-8T SRAM compute-in-memory with low-cost DAC/ADC operation for 4-bit input processing
    Joonhyung Kim, Kyeongho Lee, and Jongsun Park
    Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Low Power Electronics and Design, pages 1–6
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • A Composable Glitch-Aware Delay Model
    Jürgen Maier, Daniel Öhlinger, Ulrich Schmid, Matthias Függer, and Thomas Nowak
    Proceedings of the 2021 Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pages 147–154
    2021 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • A Simplified Arm Processor for VLSI Education
    Noah Boorstin, Veronica Cortes, Kaveh Pezeshki, David Harris, and Shuojin Hang
    Proceedings of the 2020 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pages 555–559
    2020 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Top-down Physical Design of Soft Embedded FPGA Fabrics
    Prashanth Mohan, Oguz Atli, Onur Kibar, Mohammed Zackriya, Larry Pileggi, and Ken Mai
    The 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, pages 1–10
    2021 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Global Is the New Local: FPGA Architecture at 5nm and Beyond
    Stefan Nikolić, Francky Catthoor, Zsolt Tőkei, and Paolo Ienne
    The 2021 ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays, pages 34–44
    2021 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Evolutionary Standard Cell Synthesis of Unconventional Designs
    Prashanth H. C. and Madhav Rao
    Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022, pages 189–192
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Securing On-chip Interconnect against Delay Trojan using Dynamic Adaptive Caging
    Ruchika Gupta, Vedika J. Kulkarni, John Jose, and Sukumar Nandi
    Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022, pages 411–416
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Watermarked ReRAM: A Technique to Prevent Counterfeit Memory Chips
    Farah Ferdaus, Bashir Mohammad Sabquat Bahar Talukder, and Md Tauhidur Rahman
    Proceedings of the Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI 2022, pages 21–26
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Ab-initio Quantum Transport with the GW Approximation, 42,240 Atoms, and Sustained Exascale Performance
    Nicolas Vetsch, Alexander Maeder, Vincent Maillou, Anders Winka, Jiang Cao, Grzegorz Kwasniewski, Leonard Deuschle, Torsten Hoefler, Alexandros Nikolaos Ziogas, and Mathieu Luisier
    Proceedings of the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, pages 1–13
    2025 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Using Many Small 1T1C Memory Arrays in a Large and Dense Multicore Processor
    Gunnar Carlstedt and Mats Rimborg
    Proceedings of the 2022 International Symposium on Memory Systems, pages 1–12
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Leveraging Layout-based Effects for Locking Analog ICs
    Muayad J. Aljafar, Florence Azaïs, Marie-Lise Flottes, and Samuel Pagliarini
    Proceedings of the 2022 Workshop on Attacks and Solutions in Hardware Security, pages 5–13
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • On the Power of Optical Contactless Probing: Attacking Bitstream Encryption of FPGAs
    Shahin Tajik, Heiko Lohrke, Jean-Pierre Seifert, and Christian Boit
    Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGSAC Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 1661–1674
    2017 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Towards Deeply Scaled 3D MPSoCs with Integrated Flow Cell Array Technology
    Halima Najibi, Alexandre Levisse, Marina Zapater, Mohamed M. Sabry Aly, and David Atienza
    Proceedings of the 2020 on Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI, pages 513–518
    2020 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • SoK: Design Tools for Side-Channel-Aware Implementations
    Ileana Buhan, Lejla Batina, Yuval Yarom, and Patrick Schaumont
    Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security, pages 756–770
    2022 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Geometry of synthesis iv: compiling affine recursion into static hardware
    Dan R. Ghica, Alex Smith, and Satnam Singh
    Proceedings of the 16th ACM SIGPLAN international conference on Functional programming, pages 221–233
    2011 (Publisher: ACM)
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  • Synthesis of mealy machines using derivatives
    Helle Hvid Hansen, David Costa, and Jan Rutten
    Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science, volume 164, number 1, pages 27–45
    2006 (Publisher: Elsevier)
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Secondary literature

  • PSP 103.8.1
    G.D.J. Smit, A.J. Scholten, D.B.M. Klaassen, O. Rozeau, S. Martinie, and T. Poiroux
    Technical report
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Videos

  • The 3 Laws of Thermodynamics Explained
    Chad’s Prep
    Web link

  • How To Make A Chip
    Applied Materials
    YouTube

  • Computational lithography: Driving nanometer precision in microchip manufacturing | ASML
    ASML
    YouTube

  • Imaging at ASML
    Huygens Optics
    YouTube

  • Doping: The Most Important Part of Making Semiconductors
    ProjectsInFlight
    YouTube

  • VLSI - Lecture 1b:
    Adi Teman
    YouTube

  • VLSI - Lecture 3e: MOSFET Modeling - Leakages in NanoScaled Transistors
    Adi Teman
    YouTube

  • Introduction to MOSFETs (25-Transistors)
    Aaron Danner
    YouTube

  • GateMate: A European 28nm FPGA with an Open-Source Toolchain and Radiation Qualification Results
    FPGA Developers’ Forum
    YouTube

  • Speedrunning 30yrs of lithography technology
    YouTube

  • The Insane Complexity of the Semiconductor Global Supply Chain
    YouTube

  • Photolithograph (playlist)
    Huygens Optics
    YouTube

  • How Carl Zeiss Crafts Optics for a $150 Million EUV Machine
    Asianometry
    YouTube

  • Why Wafer Bonding is the Future of Semiconductors
    Asianometry
    YouTube

  • Design your own Computer Chip in 5 steps!
    Zero To ASIC Course
    YouTube

  • Evaluation of Planar MOSFET, FinFET and GAAFET in VLSI
    VLSI Simplified
    YouTube

  • This CHIP Changed the WORLD! MOSFET (ElectroBOOM101 - 012)
    ElectroBOOM
    YouTube

  • Open Source Analog ASIC design: Entire Process
    Psychogenic Technologies
    YouTube

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