Digital Systems and Hardware/Firmware Algorithms

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Summary: I agree, ADVANCE logic design book!!!
Review: I have owned this book for 10 years now and have used it more as a reference than anything else. The authors tend to go a little overboard in trying to present the material as a mathematics subject. But once you get used to their notation (very computer science oriented not electrical engineering)the information they give in the alogrithm portion (last chapters) is hard to find anywhere else. I actually implemented the non-restoring integer divder and FIFO described in the text in several digital ASICs I have designed. If you're a professional logic designer or graduate student I recommend this book if you can pick it up cheap used. The binding on this book is very weak. I need to find some duct tape...

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Summary: WATCH OUT! VERY ADVANCE TEXT ON DIGITAL LOGIC DESIGN!
Review: I'm a professional logic designer and even I found some of the material in this text to be very challenging to follow. I use it more as a reference. The book focuses only on synchronous logic circuits. It is fairly standard on combinatorial networks and statemachines. However, like the book's title suggets, the final sections on h/w logic algorithms (multipliers, dividers, FIFOs, bit-slice processors, etc.) and their implementation can be useful to any practicing design engineer or graduate student.