A user contributed free online Bookshelf

Open Books

The goal of the open books program is to create a bookshelf of advanced technical books in the field of electronic design and make it available to the general public for free download.

Need for Open books

• Changes in the technology or standards can make a book obsolete before it is published.
• A small targeted audience may make commercial publication infeasible
• Books with large audience are normally for college students or entry level professionals
• Pricier books are unaffordable for out of work professionals or students

The role of open bookshelf

Open bookshelf plans to come out with a set of books written collaboratively by design engineers. These books will be made available online at zero cost.

An engineer writing for the open bookshelf will have full rights over the content written by him and will grant open bookshelf and its users limited rights under one of the CreativeCommons licenses to

• Host the content(s) on the Open bookshelf site
• Allow the end user to download and print the content of the book for his personal use only.

The author may still retain all the commercial rights to publish the book if desired.

Your contribution required

If you have been working in the field of electronics and want to

• Propose a book
• Write a chapter or a section
• Edit a book/Chapter/section
• Donate lecture notes/slides/tutorials written by you.
• Help the project in any other way

Then please Discuss your contribution here

Technical Reference material currently available online at various sites

Free books Online

ASIC Application-Specific Integrated Circuits By Michael John Sebastian Smith Contemporary Logic Design : Randy H. Katz, University of California, Berkeley This book is about the fundamental techniques used to design and implement synchronous digital hardware systems. The NASA ASIC Guide: Assuring ASICS for Space Published by Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology and National Aeronautics and Space Administration An Introduction to space radiation effects on microelectronics Advanced Microelectronics for Industrialists A jointly validated MSc course taught over the internet; a programme supported by EPSRC under the Integrated Graduate Development Scheme (IGDS). Power accuracy and noise aspects in CMOS mixed-signal design A Phd Thesis Design of VLSI Systems 11 Chapters Covering Introduction to VLSI Systems, CMOS Fabrication Technology and Design Rules, Full-Custom Mask Layout System, Parasitic Extraction and Performance Estimation from Physical Structure, Clock Signals and System Timing, Arithmetic for Digital Systems, Low-Power VLSI Circuits and Systems, Testability of Integrated Systems, Fuzzy Logic Systems, VLSI For Multimedia Applications - Case Study: Digital TV, VLSI For Telecommunication Systems.	VHDL Verilog The VHDL Cookbook Peter J. Ashenden .An introduction to VHDL.(mirror). An Introduction to VHDL An abridged (full-fledged???) version of the book 'vhdl made easy' Verilog Synthesis Interoperability 1364.1 The standards draft document... Introduction to Actel FPGA Architecture (57k) The Synthesis and Simulation Design Guide From Xilinx provides a general overview of designing FPGAs with HDLs. It includes design hints for the novice HDL user, as well as for the experienced user who is designing FPGAs for the first time. Written for the Xilinx M1 development tools. Synopsys® Synthesis Methodology Guide(1.9Mb) This guide contains preferred HDL coding styles and information and procedures to assist designers in the design of Actel devices using Synopsys CAE software and the Designer Series software.
Unix,Scripting and S/W Tk Very Quick Reference Tcl/Tk Quick Reference Perl/Tk Reference Guide XEmacs Reference Manual Numerical Recipes Books On-Line Rex Swain's HTMLified Perl 5 Reference Guide PERL5 Unleashed the entire book online. A book on perl 5 (Condemned by Perl gurus as highly inaccurate. Out of print and no one wants to keep a copy on their site for too long. Not worth the search to find an alternate website hosting this book. UNIX Unleashed Table of Contents Thinking C++ University Research Paper Database	Course Notes Digital VLSI Design I Course notes
Design Computer Structures: Readings & Examples (Contents)	Mathematics Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics If its mathematics its got to be here
DSP The Scientist and Engineer's Guide to Digital Signal Processing The Art Of Lossless Data Compression
NETWORKING RFC1180: Networking tutorial IBM Red Book. TCP/IP Tutorial and Technical overview. IBM Red Book: IP Network Design Guide About.com IP Tutorial. Detailed tutorial split over 10 parts Linux Advanced Routing & Traffic Control HOWTO IEEE 802.* Standards Networking handbooks basic introductory material by Cisco