Over the past five decades, microelectronics has revolutionized our lives. While beyond the realm of possibility a few decades ago, cellphones, digital cameras, laptop computers, and many other electronic products have now become an integral part of our daily affairs.
Learning microelectronics can be fun. As we learn how each device operates, how devices comprise circuits that perform interesting and useful functions, and how circuits form sophisticated systems, we begin to see the beauty of microelectronics and appreciate the reasons for its explosive growth.
The first edition of this book was published in 2008 and has been adopted by numerous universities around the globe for undergraduate microelectronics education.
The material in each chapter can be decomposed into three categories: (1) essential concepts that the instructor should cover in the lecture, (2) essential skills that the students must develop but cannot be covered in the lecture due to the limited time, and (3) topics that prove useful but may be skipped according to the instructor’s preference.