You can start 40 years ago at the source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead%E2%80%93Conway_VLSI_chip_design_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead%E2%80%

You can start 40 years ago at the source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead%E2%80%93Conway_VLSI_chip_design_revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mead%E2%80%93Conway_VLSI_chip_... Lynn Conway 'Introduction to VLSI Systems' https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/V2.pdf https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/VLSIText/PP-V2/... One semester course based on this book, or rather the other way around - book based on notes Lynn Conway made while preparing the course https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/EDN/The%20VLSI%20Archive%20-%20Mementos%20of%20a%20Revolution.html https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/EDN/The%20VLSI%..., was enough for people to start designing real useful chips, like Jim Clark (SGI) Geometry Engine https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/ClassicDesigns/GeomEng/GeomEng.L2Q80.pdf https://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/VLSI/ClassicDesigns/...