Design of High-Performance Microprocessor Circuits

Clear diagrams. Decent detail and explanation of advanced VLSI concepts. -1 for being fairly dry reading and a little out of date.

frankkkkkk

A VERY good reference for custom circuit designers, especially for those in high-end processor design. I have been using this text since grad school days. Although each chapter is written by a different set of authors, all of them well known in that respective area, it is still cohesive. It covers a lot of aspects like DFT/BIST, Electromigration etc in sufficient detail to get one started. Perhaps not a good introductory book on circuit design, but definitely a good reference.