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Summary: Great book !
Review: Great explanations, with good examples. It is a very easy and interesting read, at the same time going into needed detail of high speed digital signalling issues. My course uses Digital Systems Engineering by Dally as text, but I find myself reading this book instead to get a better understanding, as it is clearer and better organized. Coming in really handy for my upcoming exam review!
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Summary: Great book !
Review: Great explanations, with good examples. It is a very easy and interesting read, at the same time going into needed detail of high speed digital signalling issues. My course uses Digital Systems Engineering by Dally as text, but I find myself reading this book instead to get a better understanding, as it is clearer and better organized. Coming in really handy for my upcoming exam review!
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Summary: Dissappointing. Good subject, poorly covered.
Review: I was very disappointed with this book. It covers a very useful subject, but it is not well written. Almost every section was done better in other books covering the same material. It will be hard to prove how bad this book is, since on the surface everything seems to be there. However, as somebody who have read many books on this subject it was painful to read this one. It is more like a cut and paste job putting together well-known material without any new insights.Despite its shortcomings, people who are not familiar with this subject can find this book remarkable and very useful. Suggested Reading: Howard Johnson's "Black Magic" and "Advanced Black Magic" books are definitely more pleasant to read while at a similar basic level. More advanced books on the same subjects include the classic work " Electromagnetic Compatibility" by Clayton Paul and of course most books on Microwave engineering. Brian Young's "Digital Signal Integrity"-although being less practical is a nicely done basic book discussing modeling and simulation of signal integrity.
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Summary: Authors draw on their roots to provide some downhome fun
Review: Not only does this book make an excellent high-contrast coaster for your evening beer, it also provides the reader with true design insight not usually found in dry school-oriented textbooks. Dr. Stephen Hall's intorduction to the finer points of home-built Tesla coil design will help save the hair of thousands of potential human inductors. Sr. Professor Garrett Hall sheds his good boy image during his treatise on creating effective electroshock devices used for interrogating runaway sheep. Prof. Emeritus McCall shows us again that for some reason, Bozeman, MT truly is the home of the universe's system electrical characterization braintrust. It's scary that these good 'ol boys can write so well.
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Summary: Excellent... even too much!
Review: This book gives an excellent review of transmission theory, with real-world examples from the PCB industry. Also several useful rules of thumbs are provided. The design methodology presented is really focussed on computer motherboards and board-CPU codesign and does not always applies to other kind of high-speed designs. Moreover, the techniques proposed in the book are sometime excessive for small teams.
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Summary: A great perspective of the real world
Review: This book is excellent. As an experienced I.C. designer, I found practical information about interconnect theory and design practices. The book was well written; a good balance between theory and problem solving. The information is useful from the chip level to the outside world.
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Summary: OK, but if you get 1 HSDD book, get Johnson instead.
Review: This book is OK. Does exactly what it says on the tin. I was dismayed that Hall et al kept referring to Johnson & Graham's High Speed Digital Design instead of explaining material themselves. I own both (Johnson and Hall). I prefer Johnson. But that's my preference ....
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Summary: Authors draw on their roots to provide some downhome fun
Review: This book is the most comprehensive book I have seen in the area of system bus design. It focuses largely on signal integrity issues that must be solved in modern high speed designs. It includes much practical information that can be directly applied to design, as well as a sufficient amount of theory so that the the reader can understand the fundamental issues assosiated with high speed signal propagation. It also covers topics not included inother texts, such as high speed measuremet techniques, design methodology and EMI. It is highly understandable and well organized.
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Summary: High Speed Digital System Design - Excellent Book
Review: This book is the most comprehensive book I have seen in the area of system bus design. It focuses largely on signal integrity issues that must be solved in modern high speed designs. It includes much practical information that can be directly applied to design, as well as a sufficient amount of theory so that the the reader can understand the fundamental issues assosiated with high speed signal propagation. It also covers topics not included inother texts, such as high speed measuremet techniques, design methodology and EMI. It is highly understandable and well organized.
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Summary: Check out - a great Interconnect book is finally here
Review: This is an excellent book. Finally, here is a book, which clearly explains the fundamentals of transmission lines and their application in high speed digital designs. The theory is presented with great clarity, and with numerous supporting examples. I would strongly recommend this book to anybody designing high-speed digital interconnects at the system level.
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