Customer Reviews

Computer Arithmetic: Algorithms and Hardware Designs

5 star:		(2)
4 star:		(1)
3 star:		(0)
2 star:		(2)
1 star:		(2)

 

 

Excellent book if you want to get into DETAILS of computer arithmetic and its hardware implementation.

The lecture style is great as it becomes easy to take breaks in between. It also makes the text very modular, allowing you to choose and read.

It has plenty of diagrams making the text very readable. I like the circle diagrams that the author has used to show the number representation system.

Although the author does a good job at explaining arithmetic in the areas of RNS and SD arithmetic, the other topics are done very superficially. The book is a good reference, but you can find better books on understanding computer arithmetic.

I found this book to be extremely helpful in my every-day work. No where else have I found such a concise and accurate description of hardware-friendly number systems and arithmetic algorithms. It's the first place I go when I have a an arithmetic-intensive algorithm to architect. Simply put, my designs got better after I got this book.

Not a very good book in my opinion, I will admit I am just getting started into it but even in the number representation chapters he takes very simple material and makes it very complicated. Radix number representation is not complex but if I was trying to learn from this book I would be very intimidated. (and for the review complimenting the circles explaining 1 and 2's compliment, those aren't some original idea those circles are in pretty much every explanation of the topic) Needless to say I am somewhat scared of whats ahead, if the author has made simple material like number representation complex, I can't imagine how more complex material will be covered. -And my big point is that very few examples are given in the book. And then ( the cardinal sin of engineering/science books) complex questions are asked in the book with no real reference in the material. This book was most likely put together from lecture notes and if I had a professor on hand to answer questions that would be okay, but as far as I know they run for over 50K a year and I can't afford that. Avoid

-forgive my bad spelling I was in a hurry

I received the book within 3 days of the order. It was in an excellent shape. The book itself is in a great shape and explains the material beautifully.

I just finished a course that used this book and I was so disgusted with the book that I felt a review was necessary. It seems that this book was written for people who already have a background in computer algorithms. The examples, where rarely provided, leave out basic information necessary to comprehend the material. The author uses notation and figures without explaning how to read them. I learned almost nothing form this book and would not suggest it to anyone. In fact, if this author has written any other books, I would stay away from them as well.

I think 2 stars rating for this book are more than it deserves.
I've bought many technical books and learned them on my own but
I've never seen a book that is so bad. Having this as class text
book and coupling with a not so good instructor, you really gets
it coming. PLEASE, STAY AWAY FROM THIS BOOK!
there many good books on this subject out there, don't torture
yourself and waste money on this terrible book. The bottom line is, the
author tries to make subjects more complicated than they
really are.