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Summary: Good material, bad editing!
Review: As far as material and explanations, the book is great. I just have no tolerance for the countless number of grammatical errors it contains. At least one on every page. Granted, we are engineering majors, but it's a university-level textbook!
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Summary: A text ANALOGOUS in nature;
Review: As i was researching for a project, i found this text "Contemporary Logic Design" to be very similar in concept and examples to its predecessors (texts published by other authors). Most notable examples were from Dr. Mono's text "Degital Design" and other similar texts. In my opinion there exists much better texts in the market.
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Summary: The standard for Digital Logic Texts
Review: From K-maps and Boolean Cubes to Combinational and Sequential logic, Contemporary Logic Design is the final say over University texts in Digital Logic. One of the most up-to-date coverages of the subject ensures the university student is well versed in all aspects of Digital Logic.
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Summary: An outstanding introductory logic design text
Review: I attend North Carolina State University, and we use this book in our introductory logic design course. Dr. Katz has amassed a great deal of easy to follow examples with associated real world applications and his "Pratical Matters" sections give the reader a true sense of focus of the field. He lets you know "what you need to know" and tells you where and how you'll use it. I only wish I could follow my professor as well.
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Summary: An outstanding introductory logic design text
Review: I attend North Carolina State University, and we use this book in our introductory logic design course. Dr. Katz has amassed a great deal of easy to follow examples with associated real world applications and his "Pratical Matters" sections give the reader a true sense of focus of the field. He lets you know "what you need to know" and tells you where and how you'll use it. I only wish I could follow my professor as well.
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Summary: Katz ROCKS!
Review: Loved the book- all the way through. This was a required text at UC Berkeley College of Engineering for the 5 unit, upper division class I took there in my final semester of my senior year.Not only was the book helpful to support the lecture notes and problem sets, it was also very helpful while I was designing one of the biggest projects I've ever done. Clear, concise, well done Professor Katz!
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Summary: Katz ROCKS!
Review: Loved the book- all the way through. This was a required text at UC Berkeley College of Engineering for the 5 unit, upper division class I took there in my final semester of my senior year. Not only was the book helpful to support the lecture notes and problem sets, it was also very helpful while I was designing one of the biggest projects I've ever done. Clear, concise, well done Professor Katz!
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Summary: A perfect introductory text to circuit logic design.
Review: The very fact that several major universities use Contemporary Logic Design for their introductory digital logic design courses is a recommendation in
itself; having taken just such a course using this book, I found both the 'lightweight' examples excellent for breaking new intellectual ground, and the 'in
depth' example projects, developed from the initial specification, through all phases of design, and into the final implementation, often with resultant
waveforms, to provide the much needed feel of the effort involved in a real design project. A perfect introductory text for anyone interested in circuit
logic design.
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Summary: Mr. Katz -- a very fine author
Review: This book is really well written. Not only is it comprehensive, but it is written in the active tense, and addresses the reader as "you", and talks about "we", etc. This is a big plus in book writing, as too many authors were incorrectly taught that they should write extremely difficult to read texts that are impersonal and unnatural to read (thus distracting the readers from focusing on the material, and instead spending most of their energy on decoding the text). Mr. Katz knows how to write in a style that is efficient for the reader. His book is well organized, has nice graphics, great examples with accompanying graphically laid out solutions, and great illustrations. Whenever i look for books, i make sure they have these qualities:
1) Pictures. Face it, w/ the possible exception of the blind, humans think visually. If you can't think of it visually, you won't learn it well.
2) Clarity. Don't waste time struggling with the text. You need that energy to struggle with the MATERIAL itself.
3) Examples. You don't just want example problems where you must do 90% of the work, when the author leaves out the most important and difficult steps. You want examples that really illustrate the the topic of interest while also reinforcing previous topics that are involved in the example. Katz' book has all of these features. It is no wonder he won the Distinguished Teacher Award. This is the finest textbook i've used in college so far. Some reviewers have difficulty with the material itself, and perhaps unduly blamed Katz, but i believe an objective analysis of textbook writing will prove that Katz is a very fine author, and this is a very fine book.
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Summary: Comperehensive and modern
Review: This text is very modern, every concepts my professor taught are also in the book, except.....asynchronous sequential logic design. Afterall, I recommend it for every electrical engineering student.
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