This course is based on asics... the book
Application-Specific Integrated Circuits
Michael J. S. Smith
VLSI Design Series
1,040 pages
ISBN 0-201-50022-1
LOC TK7874.6.S63
Addison Wesley Longman, http://www.awl.com
Additional material (figures, resources, source code) is located at
ASICs... the website http://spectra.eng.hawaii.edu/~msmith/ASICs/HTML/ASICs.htm