Books related to the course, in approximate order of importance, are:
G Russell, D J Kinniment, E G Chester And M R Mclauchlan `CAD For VLSI.' Van Nostrand Reinhold. A very good, all round book, with great depth. Perhaps the best book for this course.
Oldfield, Gray, Kean, Dorf. `Field programmable gate arrays.'
Randy H Katz `Contemporary logic design.' Pub Benjamin Cummings ISBN 0 8053 2703 7
S M Rubin `Computer Aids For VLSI Design.'
J Mavor, M A Jack, P Denyer `Introduction To Mos LSI Design.'
Weste And Eshraghian `Principles Of CMOS VLSI Design - A Systems Perspective.' Addison Wesley
Mead and Conway `Introduction to VLSI systems.' For a long time the classic book on CMOS device physics and construction but perhaps more relevant to the Part II VLSI course than the current.
Douglas L Perry. `VHDL.' McGraw Hill. Very easy to read and quite comprehensive, but not particularly useful for this course. Clearly VHDL specific.
Paul Naish and Peter Bishop `Designing ASICs.' Short, easy to read, covers ASIC design and planning rather than CAD.
The full Verilog language is described in the OVI (Open Verilog International) `OVI Language Reference Manual' available for ftp from various places, including ftp.chronologic.com/pub/ovi.
Donald E.Thomas and Philip Moorby. `The Verilog Hardware Description Language' Published by Kluwer Academic Publishers. ISBN 0--7923-9126-8.
Eli Sternheim, Rajvir Singh, Rajeev Madhaven and Yatin Trivedi. `Digital Design and Synthesis with Verilog HDL' Published by Automata. ISBN 0-9627488-2-X. This book comes with a demonstration disk of a Verilog simulator for a PC.