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Title: Digital Design: Principles and Practices and Xilinx 4.2i Student Package (3rd Edition) by John F. Wakerly ISBN: 0-13-176059-9 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 19 July, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A little silly at times, but good intro
Comment: Well the other reviews say it, the author presents the basics of digital logic design (boolean algebra, K-maps, optimization, minterm/maxterm representation, etc.) in a humurous fashion. You learn digital logic design *AND* have fun, too!
The added bonus is the included software. The book comes with Xilinx Student Edition 2.1i, which you can use to draw schematics and simulate them. So you can apply what you read in the book. More advanced users can use the Verilog/VHDL synthesis tools (no simulation, htough) to practice FPGA design (which is beyond the scope of this book.) The *latest* third-edition printings, as of September 2000, include Xilinx Student Edition Software 2.1i...
Most places don't have them in, yet. And ordering online is no guarantee you'll get the latest shipments...
Rating: 5
Summary: A very nice book about Digital Circuits.
Comment: I already own the Hardcover copy of Digital Design by John Wakerly and I'm enjoying this book in my EE course. But recently a friend of mine bought a copy of the book above and let me read it for a week. The two copies of the book seem to be very similar, the advantage of this one is the Price, of course. :) This book is full of examples, but it would help if there were more exercises in the book, I like Herbert Taub's book regarding good exercises. I would still recommend this book for anyone wishing to have an enjoyable introduction to the digital world.
Rating: 1
Summary: Don't Buy This Book
Comment: It seems that the author is preaching to the engineering choir because it is written for people who seem to already know the subject. Furthermore, it seems that the author has a sick desire to tell everyone how smart he is by taking a simple subject and making it as hard as possible. There is no intention of teaching the subject and its only purpose is to tell you that it exists. With the exception of a few good tables/examples, much of the writing and diagrams are crammed in an endless, sloppy soup of paragraphs and over inflated jargon. Concepts are NOT taught in a structured, simplistic, thorough, or systematic approach, so using this book as a quick reference would be difficult as well. Problem examples are few and are buried within the text. I did NOT find any humor in the pages but did find the material to be as exciting as watching paint dry. Concept instruction, which seems simple at first, quickly degenerates to the point that the rest of the chapter no longer makes any sense. Freshman students in Computer Science, who are forced to use this book by their university, will find it difficult to comprehend to the point of becoming discouraged and thinking this major is not for them. I highly recommend finding a supplement to this book and purchasing a used copy if its use is mandatory.
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Title: Electric Circuits Revised and PSpice Supplement Package, Sixth Edition by James W. Nilsson, Susan Riedel ISBN: 0130770795 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 27 December, 2001 List Price(USD): $116.00 |
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Title: Computer Organization and Design: The Hardware/Software Interface by David Patterson, David A. Patterson ISBN: 1558604286 Publisher: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers Pub. Date: 01 August, 1997 List Price(USD): $84.95 |
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Title: Signals and Systems (2nd Edition) by Alan V. Oppenheim, Alan S. Willsky, S. Nawab Nawab, Syed Hamid Nawab ISBN: 0138147574 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 06 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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Title: Electronic Circuit Analysis with CD-ROM with E-text by Donald Neamen ISBN: 0072451947 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Science/Engineering/Math Pub. Date: 10 July, 2001 List Price(USD): $136.35 |
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Title: Fundamentals of Applied Electromagnetics: 2004 Media Edition by Fawwaz T. Ulaby ISBN: 013185089X Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 01 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $117.00 |
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