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From the beginning of its era in the 1960’s, Integrated Circuit (IC) fabrication technology has evolved from being able to integrate a few transistors in Small Scale Integration (SSI) to today’s integration of well over a million transistors in Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI). In a period of three decades, there have been four generations of IC’s with the number of transistors on a single chip growing from 30 to more than 3 million. This rapid growth in integration technology has been made possible by the automation of the various steps involved in design and fabrication of VLSI chips.
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Sherwani, N.A. (1993). VLSI Physical Design Automation. In: Algorithms for VLSI Physical Design Automation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-2219-2_1
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