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Summary: The Basics and More
Review: Digital design, one of the most powerful tools in Electrical Engineering. I used this book in my first, basic Digital class, and it was wonderful. I later used the SAME book in a class called Advanced Switching Theory and Design. The Asynchronous topics later in the book lend themselves to a more advanced look at Digital Electronics, while the beginning of the book covers all the basics any student needs to earn the knowledge of digital design demanded by today's marketplace.
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Summary: The Basics and More
Review: Digital design, one of the most powerful tools in Electrical Engineering. I used this book in my first, basic Digital class, and it was wonderful. I later used the SAME book in a class called Advanced Switching Theory and Design. The Asynchronous topics later in the book lend themselves to a more advanced look at Digital Electronics, while the beginning of the book covers all the basics any student needs to earn the knowledge of digital design demanded by today's marketplace.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: Great book. The previous commentor is completely wrong and has missed it.
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Summary: Excellent book!
Review: Great book. The previous commentor is completly wrong and has missed it.
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Summary: Nice
Review: nice , practical and, simple guide to some of the most hazardous problems of digital design.
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Summary: Superbly Organized & Written. A Standard for Technical Texts
Review: Superbly Organized & Written. A Standard for Technical Texts. One of the best technical texts I ever read. A handbook for life.
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Summary: Learning_Digital_Systems
Review: The book is bad in the respect that it confuses more a person whenever one tries to read it. Chapter on flip flops has diagrams those dont go ok with all possible cases, and the book misses on explanation about many basic concepts. About design, Mano just skips important steps here and there. Have had complaints about it from people year after year in college. Simple concepts are explained in such a twisted way that it can never teach digital logic without the help of a GOOD teacher.HDL part is ok though.
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Summary: A good guide to "classic" digital design
Review: This book gives a good coverage of digital design. It includes: The basics (binary, octal and hexadecimal numbers, two's complement); boolean algebra and its relationship to logic gates; symplification of Boolean functions and NAND/NOR implementation; adders (half, full, carry lookahead, parity generation) and encoders/decoders; PLD's; synchronous design: state machines, counters, shift registers; asynchronous design (race conditions, hazards), characteristics of digital integrated circuits (TTL, ECL, CMOS) and a bunch of proposed lab experiments. I found the book to be plenty of information relative to its size. The issues are presented clearly, and I didn't find any bugs in the book. Some of the data presented (like asynchronous design) are difficult to find in other reference books. However, I was not sure if it deserved the 5 stars. The book doesn't cover today's hot issues like low voltage families (3.3V and below), and it also does not have any reference to HDL (Verilog, VHDL). The presented PLD's and logic families are today almost obsolete. But all in all, it is an excelente reference on digital design.
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Summary: A nice intro. to digital design
Review: This book has been on the market for many years (which in itself seems like a good sign), and when it comes to learning the fundamentals of digital design, it is hard to find a better reference. The books strong points include a number of good examples in each chapter, and plenty of problems that seem quite reasonable for a beginning student to solve. My only criticism may be the absence of a chapter on VHDL, which would probably have more use than some of the other topics (such as the various types of logic families) discussed towards the end of the book.
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Summary: This book is definitely not for a beginner!
Review: This book is not recommended for someone who has no background in digital circuits. There are no exercises and no solutions except the end-of-chapter questions (No solutions are available for the end-of-the-chapter exercises either). Some logic circuits in this book are inaccurate. This book is not user-friendly. For example, a table or a diagram is located often several pages apart from its explanation. The author's inadequate writing makes we students'job of learning unnecessarily tough. If you are a novice in this area, try others books which contain a lot of exercises and solutions.
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