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Summary: Textbook in Course I'm Teaching
Review: (Note -- this review applies to the 4th edition of the text. I haven't seen the 5th edition, but it seems that it will fix most of my complaints, hopefully without subtracting from the good features!)This is a learn-by-example style of text. Not only are examples given in the body text, but the first end-of-chapter problems are worked out in detail, and solutions are given for many more. I consider this a fine book for enriching the material I'm presenting in class. Major down-side is that the book is decades out of date in terms of design style (some of which might cost one's job if applied) and extensive use of obsolete components (type T flip-flops anyone?). Roth's VHDL based book is probably better, but you gotta learn the fundamentals first, and this book covers them. Any good instructor will point out the flaws.
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Summary: the best for excercises
Review: i have been using both roth and mano for my digital design course at college and my experience is that roth is 'the' book for digital design.it is clear ,concise and to the point.mano seems to be a little too descriptive and sometimes drives you early to bed.however it is always good to refer to mano as for PLDs are concerned..
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Summary: the best for excercises
Review: i have been using both roth and mano for my digital design course at college and my experience is that roth is 'the' book for digital design.it is clear ,concise and to the point.mano seems to be a little too descriptive and sometimes drives you early to bed.however it is always good to refer to mano as for PLDs are concerned..
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Summary: New Fifth Edition correct flaws
Review: I reviewed the Fourth edition before, but have now revised that review to reflect major improvements in the new edition.
This is a learn-by-example style of text. Not only are examples given in the body text, but the first end-of-chapter problems are worked out in detail, and solutions are given for many more. I consider this a fine book for enriching the material I'm presenting in class.
The old edition was dated and promoted design styles that are not advised. The new edition fixes those problems and this is now a great text. Three chapters introducing VHDL have been added after the chapter sequences on combinatorial logic, sequential logic, and digital systems. Thus VHDL doesn't intefere with the teaching of the fundamentals, but serves to enhance by providing the modern practices. The chapters are not thorough enough for practicing design in VHDL but are a good introduction. Relatively modern components are now used in the practical examples. I don't think anyone will mind that the chapters on asynchronous state machine design are gone.
The new text comes with a CD containing a simple VHDL simulator (which I have not tested), SimuAid (also untested) and Professor Roth's venerable LogicAid -- a combinatorial logic synthesis tool which if nothing else provides a means that students can check their hand-made designs. People using this text in self-study would probably find the CD paricularly useful, although it has little value in school settings where professional software tools are available.
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Summary: Excellent book, easily the best I've used so far in college
Review: This book is for a self-paced class at UT, where Dr. Roth teaches. The book is excellent, and by learning on your own, you can take the material at your own pace, do tests when you have time and when convinient, and you end up learning much more than you would in a stilted class. Most of the book is extremely well written (I have only studied 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 18/19, 20, 21), however 11 and 21 need to be revised a bit as they both require you to learn completely new concepts without a great deal of help. However, I heard the book is being revised and will be much much better soon. With just a little bit of VHDL, this book would be almost perfect. Excellent book, worth buying new as you will use it for other classes in the future...
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Summary: Hard to understand
Review: This is a bad book for several reasons
1.)It lacks good examples. The examples are too short for the most part, and the author makes little effort to explain how did he get into the final answer.
2.)It spends too much time on Boolean algebra. Nobody use boolean algebra for complex digital circuits. The author should have given more time for the K-Map.
3.)There is nothing in the book that tell you the application of digital design in the real world I suggest you read Digital Fundamentals by Thomas Floyd. It is a much better book!
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Summary: very nice
Review: This is a really outstanding book. Easy to learn and to understand. He provides many helpful examples.
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