- Neil Weste & David Harris, CMOS VLSI Design (4th edition). The canonical textbook.
- Jan Rabaey, Anantha Chandrakasan, Borivoje Nikolić, Digital Integrated Circuits. Deep, modern, ties theory to practice.
- Sung-Mo Kang & Yusuf Leblebici, CMOS Digital Integrated Circuits. Excellent on the device side.
- Wayne Wolf, Modern VLSI Design. Strong on system level and verification.
- Pong Chu, FPGA Prototyping by SystemVerilog Examples. Practical FPGA work.
- Mark Tehranipoor, Cliff Wang (eds.), Introduction to Hardware Security and Trust. A direct line from VLSI into hardware security.
- TSMC, Samsung Foundry, and Intel public process white papers. Free, current, surprisingly readable.
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