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Summary: Author's Comments
Review: 'High-Speed Digital Design' is rapidly becoming the 'bible' of high-speed design issues. Focusing on a combination of digital and analog circuit theory, this comprehensive volume will help engineers who work with digital systems shorten their product development cycles and fix their latest high-speed design problems. The author also teaches a highly-dynamic seminar based on the book.Published Reviews: "Dr. Howard W. Johnson and Dr. Martin Graham have blessed us with a text that in many ways addresses exactly this juxtaposition of designer and engineer in the high-speed board world....this is one of the finest efforts to come along in the field of applied high-speed digital design because of its focus on providing tools for the whole design team bringing a high-speed product to life. For all the PCB designers and circuit designers out there, buy it; read it; keep it." --Dan Baumgartner, Printed Circuit Design "'High-Speed Digital Design'...treats the gray area between signals that are digital, and the analog aspects that are so important when you want your digital buses to behave at higher and higher speeds - not a trivial task. This book is there to help, with serious advice and good philosophy." --Bob Pease, Electronic Design "Engineers who must make high-speed circuits work will find this book invaluable. Johnson and Graham strike what seems to me to be just the right balance between rigor and nuts-and-bolts practicality. The book should be must reading for EE students who aspire to work in digital-hardware design. It should also occupy a place in the libraries of most of the experienced practitioners of the art." --Dan Strassberg, EDN
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Summary: Overrated...
Review: An overview/summary of many basic concepts but with little theoretical development based on physical models. For example, the authors discuss transmission lines but don't trouble themselves to show the incremental circuit model of a transmission line or the differential circuit equations, they simply state the solution of the differential equations. Likewise the authors inadequately discuss how terminations affect transmission lines and fail to show how the reflection coefficient follow from the physical model. The point of showing the theoretical underpinnings is to make clear when the stated solutions are valid and more importantly, not valid. In ignoring the physical models, the authors do a disservice to their readers. An altogether disappointing book.
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Summary: An overview/summary with little theoretical development
Review: An overview/summary of many basic concepts but with little theoretical development based on physical models. For example, the authors discuss transmission lines but don't trouble themselves to show the incremental circuit model of a transmission line or the differential circuit equations, they simply state the solution of the differential equations. Likewise the authors inadequately discuss how terminations affect transmission lines and fail to show how the reflection coefficient follow from the physical model. The point of showing the theoretical underpinnings is to make clear when the stated solutions are valid and more importantly, not valid. In ignoring the physical models, the authors do a disservice to their readers. An altogether disappointing book.
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Summary: Real BLACK MAGIC in Electronics System Design !
Review: As a researcher in board-level programmable device design, i found it always be my "real bible" for solving lots of practical problems. This book not only gives you practical design considerations, but it does provides teoretical interpretations. I like the "points to remember". Thank You.
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Summary: A great mixture of theory and practical examples.
Review: Being a hardware designer for DSP and CPU boards, this is the most interesting book I have read the last 10 years. I read the entire book nodding my head and saying "This all makes sense". All the theory is there, but what makes it readable is the autor's comments on what really matters; such as: "The inductance of vias is more important than their capacitance to digital designers"
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Summary: Useful for Analog Work, too!
Review: Compared to some "cookbook, touchy-feely" books that will remain anonymous, this book truly succeeds at providing a working understanding of the physics of high speed design and how to use this knowledge effectively. Very helpful for students of high-speed/RF analog design.
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Summary: Good book, but don't be led astray
Review: First, I'll critique the sub-title: a handbook of Black Magic. High-speed digital design is not black magic. It is the application of science. The sub-title does the book a disservice. Second, I should caution young engineers that the authors of this book enumerate several stratagems in high-speed design; some good, some bad. That is, not all of the tricks in later sections are sound engineering practices. Experienced engineers will be able to differentiate between sound engineering practices and hacks, and when compromises should be made. Young engineers may be lead astray too easily. Lastly, this book is a good book if you already know something of the subject. If you had only to buy one book, I'd recommend "High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices" ISBN: 0471360902. After reading that book, I'd purchase this book, as this book has some practical information, for example, on choosing capacitor dielectrics, oscillators, etc., not contained in the first.
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Summary: Mostly a very solid book
Review: Great book. BTW, the author lists a LOT of errata on his website, enough to take over an hour to mark up my copy (5th printing). Although it's nice he documents this so well, it's a pain in the rear, so you may want to verify the edition you're buying to avoid this extra effort. On page vi, above ISBN, look for reverse sequence; example: "10 9 8 7" indicates 7th printing (cryptic, I know). Most recent printing is 15th edition (least amount of errata). The book is loaded with equations and diagrams. It would be nice to see more derivations, but at least the equations are there in the text, and in the appendix. I thought a few other reviewers were a bit harsh. The book is not perfect, but nevertheless a great resource. His second book is impressive, but more advanced; this original title is my "workhorse" book. also, check out his website (sigcon.com) for lots of articles and resources.
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Summary: Very worth while
Review: Hi,
I've used this book as reference for my masters course and also in my everyday work as a test engineer.
I find that it takes a lot of the complexity out of the subject and presents it in terms that are easy to understand.
I am amazed at how many engineers have no real comprehension of this area of electronics, how inductance, capacitance etc effects digital signals. If you are one of these people and I was, then this book will certainly go a long way in enlightening you. I admit the price is expensive but it's worth it.
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Summary: No..
Review: I can easily and absolutely say that "this book is not a book that satisfy me about my area.
I am looking for alternatives...
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