Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL [Hardcover]

Robert Dueck (Author)

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Robert Dueck received his degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Manitoba, in Winnipeg, Canada and worked for several years as a design engineer at Motorola Canada in Toronto. He began his teaching career in 1986, specializing in digital and microcomputer subjects in the Electronics and Computer Engineering Technology programs at Seneca College in Toronto. He now teaches digital design and related courses at Red River College in Winnipeg. Mr. Dueck is a member of the Association of Professional Engineers and Geoscientists of Manitoba (APEGM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 896 pages
• Publisher: Thomson Delmar Learning; 1 edition (June 28, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0766811603
• ISBN-13: 978-0766811607
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 8.9 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 5.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,370,480 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This book rules!!!, October 5, 2000

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This review is from: Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL (Hardcover)

This is one of the best presentations of digital electronics in the CPLD Altera MAX Plus II design enviroment and VHDL I have ever seen. I do not know of another digital book like it.

It also includes Altera's MAX Plus II software on CD in back of the book along with design files for use with the book prepared by the author.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good for beginners, September 1, 2005

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Jacques Fortier (Atlanta, GA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL (Hardcover)

This is a good book for beginners to digital logic and VHDL. It spends a lot of time explaining how different components like encoders, decoders, muxes, state machines, etc work. That's good for people who haven't been exposed to the material before. If you want to learn that stuff and apply it in VHDL, it's a great book. If you're just trying to learn one or another aspect, there are probably better books out there. If you want to learn VHDL from the book and already know a fair amount about digital logic, it's tough because you keep on skipping stuff you already know and and then later find out that there was VHDL information buried in that section on seven-segment displays. Similarly, people just trying to learn digital logic who are uninterested in VHDL will probably find that they spend a lot of time skipping past explanation of VHDL. Add in the fact that lots of space is taken up by screenshots of Altera software, and the book ends up containing surprisingly little information for its size. People who want a thorough discussion of digital logic or VHDL should look elsewhere. Beginners will probably be right at home.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great CPLD book with practical examples, January 21, 2006

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Soon Yau Cheong (Malaysia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Digital Design with CPLD Applications and VHDL (Hardcover)

The teaching of digital electronics using CPLD is very useful, the book covers theory, truth table, gate level implementation. The examples show you how to create a module, for instance,a multiplexer.It doesnt only end here, it further demonstrate the application of the multiplexer. From there, you can have better understanding from gate level up to system level. I benefit a lot from this approach. The examples are very useful despite I am not writing in VHDL.

The book also explain the internal architecture of CPLD, starting from the history development of programmable logic devices. If you want to learn on CPLD, this is definitely the book for you, even if you are not using VHDL.