A First Course in Digital Systems Design: An Integrated Approach [Hardcover]

John P. Uyemura (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: April 16, 1999 | ISBN-10: 0534934129 | ISBN-13: 978-0534934125 | Edition: 1

This book provides a new paradigm for teaching digital systems design. It puts forth the view that modern digital logic consists of several interacting areas that combine in a cohesive fashion. This includes traditional subjects such as Boolean algebra, logic formalisms, Karnaugh maps, and other classical topics. However, it goes beyond these subject areas by including VHDL, CMOS, VLSI and RISC architectures to show what the field looks like to a modern logic designer. Modern digital design is no longer practiced as a stand-alone art. The integrated approach used in this book is designed to ensure that graduating engineers are prepared to meet the challenges of the new century.

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About the Author

John P. Uyemura is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, late of Georgia Institute of Technology.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 495 pages
• Publisher: Brooks/Cole Publishing Company; 1 edition (April 16, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0534934129
• ISBN-13: 978-0534934125
• Product Dimensions: 10.3 x 8.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,759,660 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Novel approach to introductory digital design, November 9, 1999

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David Harris (Claremont, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: A First Course in Digital Systems Design: An Integrated Approach (Hardcover)

Uyemura's book is a novel approach to teaching introductory digital design, covering chip design and hardware description languages as well as the classic fundamentals. Although most large digital systems are built on integrated circuits today, IC design was often put off until graduate-level courses. This book does a good job of presenting modern digital design theory and practice in under 500 pages.

The biggest drawback, IMHO, is that the book is overpriced for a thin introductory textbook. I would like to use it in conjunction with Patterson and Hennessy for an undergraduate computer engineering course, but am concerned about making students purchase two expensive books.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easily accessible, March 17, 2005

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Brian Borman (Hartford, CT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: A First Course in Digital Systems Design: An Integrated Approach (Hardcover)

Easily and systematically builds the "toolkit" necessary to understand and design digital circuits. The book starts with basic boolean algebra and states many useful theorems to know. Alongside this symbolic notation is pictoral schematic drawings to visual the flow of data.

Each chapter builds on the previous, starting with simple logic gates (AND, OR, NOT), and then using different combinations to make combinatoral circuits. Then the book changes gears covering technical aspects of different materials used in creating circuits (i.e. CMOS). Followed with some basic electrical theory and introduces VHDL to allow designers to simulate more complicated designs and test that they work correctly. These are the necessary precursors to understanding the following topics including sequential circuits, RAM, and state machines. Finally, it is all put together by examining a simple RISC chip with a simple instruction set.