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Summary: Needs more examples!
Review: The other reviews said it all. This book is detailed and thorough, but is practically impossible to learn from because there are not enough examples, and there are no answers to the problems! You can get selected solutions on the website, but even with the answers, it can often be very difficult to figure out how to do the problems. I'm on Amazon.com right now because I'm desperately seeking other books that will help me pass my Logic Design class...
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Summary: Needs more examples!
Review: The other reviews said it all. This book is detailed and thorough, but is practically impossible to learn from because there are not enough examples, and there are no answers to the problems! You can get selected solutions on the website, but even with the answers, it can often be very difficult to figure out how to do the problems. I'm on Amazon.com right now because I'm desperately seeking other books that will help me pass my Logic Design class...
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Summary: Excellen book and companion software
Review: The previous reviewer complained that solutions to the exercises were not available. Since this is obviously a text book to be used in a course, I don't fault the author for not providing answers to the problems. Moreover, he does provide the answers to select problems on his www page. The Xilinx student software is a great way to learn digital logic. Xilinx dominates most of the FPGA applications and experience with their software and more familiarity with their chips makes the Xilinx software a great choice. Be aware that there is a "2nd Edition Updated" that is to be released soon. I spent $100 and already found out that it is out of date. I hope the author includes any supplementary material for the updated 2nd edition on his www page as well.
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Summary: Excellen book and companion software
Review: The previous reviewer complained that solutions to the exercises were not available. Since this is obviously a text book to be used in a course, I don't fault the author for not providing answers to the problems. Moreover, he does provide the answers to select problems on his www page. The Xilinx student software is a great way to learn digital logic. Xilinx dominates most of the FPGA applications and experience with their software and more familiarity with their chips makes the Xilinx software a great choice. Be aware that there is a "2nd Edition Updated" that is to be released soon. I spent $100 and already found out that it is out of date. I hope the author includes any supplementary material for the updated 2nd edition on his www page as well.
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Summary: review by University of Illinois student
Review: The second edition of Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals is no different from the first edition except for the additional info. about VHDL and Verilog. At UIUC these sections are skipped since we use Mentor Graphics to implement logic circuits.
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Summary: Wish there was a answer key !!
Review: This book covers a lot of topics dealing with computer designs. However, when you reach the part of solving the exercise problems, it only gave me more problems because I was never sure with the answer I came up with.
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Summary: Lacks everything a book of this kind can
Review: This book fell seriosuly short of the depth of the course that I took.
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Summary: was the lowest I could go
Review: This book is the worst book I ever used there are barely any examples or I should say full examples. The index doesn't match the text so you can't use it to look up key points. If you have a instructor who is going to use this book do yourself a favor and tall him/her out of it.
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Summary: The worst I have ever seen
Review: This book is the WORST book I ever used. There are barely any examples. The contents are written very unclearly. It takes long time to undertand the SOLVED EXAMPLE in the book, let alone the problems.
Even solved problems on the website, you find wrong solutions...
I DO NOT recommand anyone even read this book...
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Summary: Good intro
Review: This book is well suited for a namesake semester course. We have used it, together with Murdocca's "Principles of Computer Architecture". The result has been quite satisfying for all of us. The book is well paced, and digital design topics are covered just enough to understand the second part of the book, about computer design fundamentals. This second part too is very well explained and many subtleties (e.g. details on CISC and RISC kind architectures) are precisely pointed out.
My only complain is that design concepts are explained with no reference to real CPUs (e.g. Intel, SPARC, Motorola, PowerPC), so if you are the kind of reader that likes a direct match on reality you'll have to look elsewhere to find some examples (e.g. Murdocca).
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