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Summary: A poorly organized book.
Review: Dr. Navabi's Verilog textbook introduces the Verilog hardware description language and its use in digital circuit and system design and modeling in a comprehensive manner. His approach to study of the language spans all design methodologies including structural, behavorial, and dataflow styles. He illustrates well the differences in these styles with a complete CPU description in both behavioral and dataflow descriptions in Chapter 10 as well as the analogous gate level hardware design. Each chapter starts with an statement of the chapters objectives and covers the topic with many examples. There are a series of questions at the end of each chapter that help to solidify the concepts within each chapter. I find the textbook to be an invaluable reference in my daily design work as a hardware engineer.
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Summary: Verilog Digital System Design by Zainalabedin Navabi
Review: Dr. Navabi's Verilog textbook introduces the Verilog hardware description language and its use in digital circuit and system design and modeling in a comprehensive manner. His approach to study of the language spans all design methodologies including structural, behavorial, and dataflow styles. He illustrates well the differences in these styles with a complete CPU description in both behavioral and dataflow descriptions in Chapter 10 as well as the analogous gate level hardware design. Each chapter starts with an statement of the chapters objectives and covers the topic with many examples. There are a series of questions at the end of each chapter that help to solidify the concepts within each chapter. I find the textbook to be an invaluable reference in my daily design work as a hardware engineer.
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Summary: Not for engineers
Review: I agree with other reviews in that this book is not a good reference book. The index list is not complete and does not give you an answer you are looking for even if you find the keyword. Also, the examples in the book is not practical and does not give readers opportunity to learn anything in depth. This book might be ok if you do not know anything about HDL. But if you do, try to find another book.
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Summary: Not a good reference
Review: I found this book too academic, with not enough references to topics that are important to actual engineers designing code. It touches on the important stuff, but doesn't delve into nearly enough detail. Too much of the book (2 big chapters) is devoted to going through a single example design for a microprocessor, instead of going through multiple smaller designs which could give a better overview of the possible language constructs. The most serious problem, in my opinion, is that the index is terrible. I find what I want only about 50% of the time. Try looking up how to invert a signal, for example. It's not under NOT, Invert, or anything else you might think of. Otherwise, the book does provide some useful information. Still, I think my money would have been better spent elsewhere...
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Summary: terrible reference
Review: I guess your opinion of this book depends on what you are looking for. If you are a professional engineer who already knows design with HDL and needs a verilog reference source then stay away. It is not organized as a reference book. If you want a text to read to explain to you the HDL design process with verilog as the language that happens to be used, then this book could be useful. Unfortunately, I am the former and this book is nearly useless to me. I can get my question answered on the verilog newsgroup faster than I can find it in this.
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Summary: Not a good reference
Review: If you are inclined to read a book from front to back, this book might not be such a bad buy. But even then, the Verilog treatment seems to be somewhat academic, and does not contain enough real world examples. For example, There is very little treatment of test bench creation, a critical subject in my view. Also, the index is quite poor, and does not seem to have most of what I am looking for.
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Summary: A quick path to a digital system designer !!!
Review: If you are looking for a book that teaches you hardware design with Verilog, this is the one you must have, for the following reasons: 1. The flow of the book is from introductory to complex, very reader-friendly, especially for beginners. The content is easy to absorb, which covers hardware design & synthesis, Verilog language details, and computer organization concepts. 2. The book is not just an explanation of Verilog language. It actually illustrates the concepts of hardware system design with Verilog: it interprets Verilog constructs related to various design stages and design abstractions: behavioral description, dataflow description, and structure description. It emphasizes the concepts of concurrency and delay in hardware, which is very important in grasping the gist of HDLs. 3. There are abundant examples all well written for various design situations. The examples range from simple to complex, from an adder to a complete CPU. Most of example code can be used in real-world designs, or as templates, especially the state machine examples, and the test bench examples. A CD containing all the examples is supplied with the book. 4. If you ever want to be a bi-linguist (Verilog and VHDL) or a translator, the structure of this book parallels with the author's VHDL book. Most of the examples are available in both languages. As a result, you can learn the other language easily. I keep both books handy for my daily work. 5. There is a problem set in each chapter. They are very helpful in reviewing and examining the key points of the chapter.
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Summary: Great book to learn both Verilog and Digital Design
Review: If you want to learn Verilog but you're not familiar with logic
design, then this book is just what you're looking for! Not only the hardware description language but also many useful basic logic constructs are introduced in this book. Most other books on Verilog only concentrate on the language itself, and often only the synthesizable part of the language, it might be usful for people who know logic design very well, but it will be difficult for those who want to learn the language and design at the same time. Many examples are presented in the book, including full-adder, shifter registers.... Also the book presents a simple CPU model as well as it's peripherals, so reader can also learn computer architecture and how to model these structures with
Verilog. I think this is an excellent text book to use in a university.
I think it'll be great if there can be a book like this that give you knowledge of both logic design and hardware language but focus more on people who have experience with hardware design. Engineers will love a book that target to their needs, a reference book they can look at for problems in their design works. Engineers want to open a book and find what they're looking for quickly,they don't want to read the book from front to back. So the book should be different than a text book used in a university.
I'm sure if such a book can be published soon,it'll be very usful to the IT community.
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Summary: Verilog: indepth, from A-to-Z, practical design examples
Review: Incredible book. I read the book from cover to cover. It is the most in-depth Verilog book I have seen in the market. It covers all and all of the language, completely and nicely. It uses simple but actual hardware examples to show the language. Before the he last two chapters all of Verilog is covered and it puts it all together is a real design example. No other book covers Verilog, digital design and computer architecture so well. The navigator on the CD is an excellent index of real and practical examples.
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Summary: Verilog: indepth, from A-to-Z, practical design examples
Review: Incredible book. I read the book from cover to cover. It is the most in-depth Verilog book I have seen in the market. It covers all and all of the language, completely and nicely. It uses simple but actual hardware examples to show the language. Before the he last two chapters all of Verilog is covered and it puts it all together is a real design example. No other book covers Verilog, digital design and computer architecture so well. The navigator on the CD is an excellent index of real and practical examples.
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