Customer Reviews

Digital Systems Engineering

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As a high speed digital system designer, you can not afford to neglect this great book. There are lots of insights and details for experienced designers. Thank Dally and Poulton.

Not terribly good explanations, not enough examples and no answer key in the back. Odds are you have to get this for class anyway.

Great overview of entire digital systems. A must have for any signal integrity engineer. Good price for the volume of information. Good info for design engineers as well.

It is hard to imagine to use this book in a class. No wonder most of class notes based on this book has to reorganize from different chapters to present one subject. I believe this will make a really great textbook as well as a reference both for students and engineers if authors spend more time to have a good flow of subjects.

This book has some of the best discussions of pin and interconnect issues that I have see. These issues are THE limiting factors with newer chip and system architectures.

His explanation of the models of parasitic capacitance by itself makes it worth buying the book.

Best read in small chunks, this well written book is packed with useful information

I bought this book because it covers a lot of very useful subjects. However,I was very dissappointed reading it. It is too skimpy, not clearly explained and scattered. Almost any subject covered in this book is better covered in other books. It will make a very poor text book indeed. There are a lot of good books on signal integrity; from masterpieces like Clayton Paul's "Electromagnetic Compatibility" to the simple but pleasant book by Howard Johnson. There are infinitely better books on digital circuit design, on PLLs, on parasitic capacitances. Even subjects I knew before, I had a hard time following. I have to admit there are interesting sections with nice ideas that I haven't seen in any other books, but these little sections don't make up for the short comings of this book. Throwing things together doesn't make a good book. You have to care to write clearly and explain things.

I like this book very much, which has everything about today's high-speed digital system design. Deep submicron design becomes more and more challenging and we have to deal with so many headache problems such as interconnects, clock and power distribution etc. This book provides all of the guidelines and practical solutions about physical design. It is a cool book with low price!

a classic textbook about the fundamentals of digital system design. as it came out firstly 10 years ago, it should be updated with latest technology data and trend.

This book has lots of topics and infos. It's either good as an index or a lookup table for topics you already knew or just heard of. but it's horrible for learning something new. the authors often give a statement without explanation why. so this will waste your time looking up IEEE papers on that topic (which most are very readable in comparison to this book.) This book doesn't give you enough detail to do a design for that particular problem nor clearly explain the big picture so that you at least you can look up else.

This book delivers about as much as you'd want to know on any aspect of VLSI design that you need to know. Many times I've scoured the web and read papers that are partially relevant to what I'm doing. Then I'll open Dally and Poulton and they summarize exactly what I need in a few short pages.