While working toward a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering at UC Santa Barbara, Dr. Wolf wrote his first text, Guide to Electronic Measurements and Laboratory Practice. Published in 1973 (now in its 6th-Edition), it is the
2nd-oldest Electrical Engineering book being published by Prentice-Hall.

This interest in writing & teaching led him to establish a number of seminars on IC Fabrication that were offered by UC-Berkeley Extension. These popular seminars were attended by more than 4000 microlelectronic professionals from over 75 companies during the 20 years in which they were held.

In 1985, Dr. Wolf recognized that the just-introduced Apple Laser Printer had great potential. It would allow books to be written and published far-faster than previously possible. Dr. Wolf used it to create one of the world's first Desk-Top-Published books SILICON PROCESSING FOR THE VLSI ERA - Vol. 1 (shown in the upper left-hand corner of this page), and founded LATTICE PRESS to publish it.

The rest is history! That book sold over 30,000 copies. It was called "the Bible of Silicon Processing," and "the book that trained a generation of process engineers."

Dr. Wolf currently lives in Southern California with his architect wife. He continues to head LATTICE PRESS while developing several new projects. His other passions remain surfing, sailboarding, and cooking.

With respect to this last hobby, Dr. Wolf also wrote a Chicken Cookbook (1980) - which sold over 100,000 copies. The only problem, says his wife, was that by the time it was completed, she was clucking and had nearly sprouted tail-feathers!

The company was founded to harness Dr. Wolf's unique writing and information-organizing skills together with the power of the emerging Publishing Technologies (i.e., desk-top-publishing, graphical-design software suites, high-level web-design editors, and the Internet). This synthesis gave LATTICE PRESS the capability to create educational and training products for the semiconductor industry well- beyond the means of other, traditional book publishers. With that advantage, LATTICE PRESS set out to produce nothing less than the most up-to-date, authoritative, and clearly written books in the field of IC fabrication.

This vision became a reality, with the production of the acclaimed 4-Volume Series SILICON PROCESSING FOR THE VLSI ERA (containing more than 3500 total pages) over the next 15 years. This set of books is a veritable encyclopedia of silicon processing and device knowledge, unlike any other publication available today. It was followed by the 2004 release of the luminous MICROCHIP MANUFACTURING text, the first (and only) full-color book yet produced about semiconductor manufacturing.

SILICON PROCESSING FOR THE VLSI ERA - Vol. 1, published in 1986, led the way. This groundbreaking treatise was eagerly embraced by the IC Industry, becoming the BEST-SELLING book ever written on the subject. Its' rapid time-to-publication kept it more current than others published up to 5 years later.

It was followed in 1990 by SILICON PROCESSING FOR THE VLSI ERA - Vol. 2, the first text devoted exclusively to Process Integration. This book also quickly became a standard within the silicon process engineering community.

Dr. Wolf then recognized that a rigorous treatment of MOSFET device physics was needed, emphasizing the synergy between device design and the advances in process technology needed to implement scaled MOSFET structures. SILICON PROCESSING FOR THE VLSI ERA - Vol. 3, completed in 1995, remains one of the few books that focuses on this critically-important device.

The downturn accompanying the "Dot-Com Crash" has been the most devestating economic event in the history of the semiconductor industry. One result has been that almost no new books have been published since then on IC fabrication.

However, Dr. Wolf, perceiving the industrys' future needs, continued his work. He wrote two of the only semiconductor texts published since 2000. The first, SILICON PROCESSING FOR THE VLSI ERA - Vol. 4 (© 2002) deals with advances in that enabled production of deep-submicron CMOS. No other book exists covering the fabrication technologies that have entered mainstream IC-production within the past 5-years.

Dr. Wolf also expanded his graphical-arts skills to include the production and design of full-color documents (books, presentation foils, and web-pages). The initial work that sprang out of this new skill-set was the previously mentioned MICROCHIP MANUFACTURING (© 2004).

With this new book, LATTICE PRESS has once again raised the bar within the textbook publshing industry. MICROCHIP MANUFACTURING is one of the few full-color titles on any engineering-level subject ever produced. We are dragging the Engineering Textbook business from the 19th into the 20th Century. (To get to the 21st will require Multi-Media educational products - something still up our sleeve!)

Having the ability to produce full-color textbooks, seminars, & web-pages LATTICE PRESS intends to keep offering educational material not available elsewhere. You can continue to expect more innovations and insight from us in the future.