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Fundamentals of Logic Design (with CD-ROM)

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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.

I had a horrible prof. and managed to learn logic design on my own. This book made it possible. Very clear explanations, plenty of theory and design examples plus some great problems. I recommend this title, great for self study or as a class supplement.

I purchased Fundamentals of Logic Design to use in conjunction with a Digital Logic class. This book assumes that you understand every concept you encounter before moving to the next section. Near the end of the text, it is assumed that you are taking in outside knowledge while using this text.

Many of the images used throughout the text are difficult to read - even in conjunction with the captions.

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..

I bought this book for my college class. I don't have it until this summer. It comes with a disk with two programs for programming digital logic.
Now that I have used the book it is good for logic but lacked in use at design. We supplemented with the Wiley book that was good. But Schaums outline was better then both texts. I would buy Digital Pricipals and rent the book if posible.

While this book is designed as a self-paced textbook, Dr. Roth takes great care in explaining the fundamentals of logic design in relevant detail with an excellent use of examples. This is perhaps one of the easiest textbooks to read, and does not contain long, boring material. Study guides and review questions help you understand the material even further, following up on what you have read in each unit. This is a book that's definitely worth keeping, as it can also be used as a valuable reference that can be used year after year.

Book is in like new condition, great price, and pretty fat shipping.

as for the content of the book... well so far it's pretty well laid out and the author explains the information well.

I bought this book as a course requirement for an intro course on Digital Logic and this text is by far the worse text for beginners imaginable. This book may be useful for professionals who need a book to refresh their memory, but stay away if your just learning the topic.

I bought this book for a class I took at Cedarville University called Digital Logic Design. It's a great textbook, we used problems in the back for homework. Hard concepts, but explained very well.

I have just started using this book for like a few weeks, and an invitation to review this book had already been sent out to me, so my comment is that it seems to be useful when studying certain concepts in Digital Logics. Problems are great and some are even difficult for me. I am now on chapter two, but will try to go for more.

Thanks,

TH