Practical Problems in VLSI Physical Design Automation

Great teacher. His class is even better than his book

This book is very nice and detailed and thus great for beginners.The author obviously knows when to elaborate and provide examples and list all the reference if ones need detailed information of initial papers. However, since the author just wrote the book not long ago, there are certain errors, please go to [...] to check errata.This should pretty much provide a solid base for beginners, the rest is just ones' coding skill.