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Summary: Excellent
Review: Reading through the reviews that are available as I'm composing this post, I note that all of the foreign readers give it 5 stars, and all the bad reviews come from America. Also, I note a whiney tone in most of the bad reviews. I found the book to be excellent.
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Summary: It could have been worse, but not much
Review: As a computer science student I had no background in this material what so ever and I must say I passed the class and still know nothing of it. The book accelerates way to fast and the problems at the end of each chapter are nothing like the ones presented in the chapter. Just about every problem takes about an hour to do and many I only figured out how to do by checking solutions after the fact.
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Summary: It could have been worse, but not much
Review: As a computer science student I had no background in this material what so ever and I must say I passed the class and still know nothing of it. The book accelerates way to fast and the problems at the end of each chapter are nothing like the ones presented in the chapter. Just about every problem takes about an hour to do and many I only figured out how to do by checking solutions after the fact.
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Summary: Excellent text for students and electronic types
Review: As a recent EE graduate, I must say this text has been useful to me throughout my college career and on the job. The author describes logic gates and K-maps in a straightforward, humorous manner. Ok, so the jokes are corny...it is far too easy, however, to find other books that are too boring to read.The book comes with good practical examples, points out caveats, and even covers "racing," an important, yet glossed over topic in other texts. I highly recommend this text.
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Summary: Clear and Concise
Review: Excellent introductory text!!! My only negative comment is that chapter four (switching algebra) should be taught before the indepth look at digital circuits in chapter three. Other than that a fabulous introduction into the world of digital design.
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Summary: A very nice book about Digital Circuits.
Review: I already own the Hardcover copy of Digital Design by John Wakerly and I'm enjoying this book in my EE course. But recently a friend of mine bought a copy of the book above and let me read it for a week. The two copies of the book seem to be very similar, the advantage of this one is the Price, of course. :) This book is full of examples, but it would help if there were more exercises in the book, I like Herbert Taub's book regarding good exercises. I would still recommend this book for anyone wishing to have an enjoyable introduction to the digital world.
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Summary: THE book for starters (& Ref)
Review: I am a CS guy too, and this book was required for the Digital Logic class. I love this book, cause it doesn't have any pre-reqs, and so anyone with an interest can pick it up and will have a good idea as to what digital circuits are all about. I'm sure that chapter 3, which deals with the analog circuitory isn't very amazing to CS guys, but my prof. insisted on learning that chapter, and I'm happy he did. We all cursed him for teaching us transistors and CMOS logic, but it was well worth it, and I'm happy Wakerly has included it in this book. All you have to do is read every word in Chapter 3, and you'll have a great idea. The scope of this book is excellent. Taking you from Binary numbers to RAM in one book is quite an achievement and it just flows. Also a good source to pick up VHDL. The diagrams are very clear and easy to understand. After reading through 3/4ths of this book, I was able to design a few components(different design) by myself without any help. I would recommend this book highly..And if you're CS, please don't think of Chapter 3 as a waste and skip it.. Cause if you want to get a better understanding and feel for things..you Better read it..I'm happy I was forced to.
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Summary: Great introduction to VHDL and ABEL
Review: I found this book REALLY GOOD for an introductory course in Digital Design. The author gave a lot of examples in both VHDL and ABEL, plus a lot of tips when designing digital systems. The whole book is a complete review of digital design principles. I recommend it for those who want to remember all the principles (gates, adders, combinational circuits, sequencial, etc), it's clear and complete.
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Summary: Buckle Up Bonehead!
Review: I hope you're an EE guy who needs some background on digital design, because if you're of a CS background, buckle up bonehead. This text is aimed at EE guys because it very heavy on the low-level and mathmatical aspects of digital design. I only read this book because I had a CS/EE class which was based around this text. I actually learned something though, but this was only because my instructor was an EE guy who could filter out the low-level stuff, so that it was only logic left(which actually makes sense to me). I didn't try the software, but most people are using Electronics Workbench anyway, thus making the included software a very nice frisbee. I should know; mine is sitting on the top of the business building right now. It would have been nice if Electronics Workbench was included because, if you want to buy EWB, you better have your tupe on because it's time TO PAY!
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Summary: Buckle Up Bonehead!
Review: I hope you're an EE guy who needs some background on digital design, because if you're of a CS background, buckle up bonehead. This text is aimed at EE guys because it very heavy on the low-level and mathmatical aspects of digital design. I only read this book because I had a CS/EE class which was based around this text. I actually learned something though, but this was only because my instructor was an EE guy who could filter out the low-level stuff, so that it was only logic left(which actually makes sense to me). I didn't try the software, but most people are using Electronics Workbench anyway, thus making the included software a very nice frisbee. I should know; mine is sitting on the top of the business building right now. It would have been nice if Electronics Workbench was included because, if you want to buy EWB, you better have your tupe on because it's time TO PAY!
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