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High-Speed Digital System Design: A Handbook of Interconnect Theory and Design Practices

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This book is the most comprehensive book I have seen in the area of system bus design. It focuses largely on signal integrity issues that must be solved in modern high speed designs. It includes much practical information that can be directly applied to design, as well as a sufficient amount of theory so that the the reader can understand the fundamental issues assosiated with high speed signal propagation. It also covers topics not included inother texts, such as high speed measuremet techniques, design methodology and EMI. It is highly understandable and well organized.

This book is OK. Does exactly what it says on the tin.

I was dismayed that Hall et al kept referring to Johnson & Graham's High Speed Digital Design instead of explaining material themselves.

I own both (Johnson and Hall). I prefer Johnson. But that's my preference ....

This is an excellent book. Finally, here is a book, which clearly explains the fundamentals of transmission lines and their application in high speed digital designs. The theory is presented with great clarity, and with numerous supporting examples. I would strongly recommend this book to anybody designing high-speed digital interconnects at the system level.

This book gives an excellent review of transmission theory, with real-world examples from the PCB industry. Also several useful rules of thumbs are provided. The design methodology presented is really focussed on computer motherboards and board-CPU codesign and does not always applies to other kind of high-speed designs. Moreover, the techniques proposed in the book are sometime excessive for small teams.

I was very disappointed with this book. It covers a very useful subject, but it is not well written. Almost every section was done better in other books covering the same material. It will be hard to prove how bad this book is, since on the surface everything seems to be there. However, as somebody who have read many books on this subject it was painful to read this one. It is more like a cut and paste job putting together well-known material without any new insights.

Despite its shortcomings, people who are not familiar with this subject can find this book remarkable and very useful.

Suggested Reading:

Howard Johnson's "Black Magic" and "Advanced Black Magic" books are definitely more pleasant to read while at a similar basic level. More advanced books on the same subjects include the classic work " Electromagnetic Compatibility" by Clayton Paul and of course most books on Microwave engineering. Brian Young's "Digital Signal Integrity"-although being less practical is a nicely done basic book discussing modeling and simulation of signal integrity.

The book reads nice and presents the material clearly and smoothly. I recommend this book for every student working in this area.
Lots of material that seems confusing when reading other references, are clear in this book.

I was nicer in my previous review. Ok, I really got nothing from this book. It was really fragmented, not well organized, and didn't cover differential impedances. It just kept saying - you really need a software field solver. Well, I can't afford Ansoft, so this book has neither the math or the down to earth info that I need.

This book is excellent. As an experienced I.C. designer, I found practical information about interconnect theory and design practices. The book was well written; a good balance between theory and problem solving. The information is useful from the chip level to the outside world.

Great explanations, with good examples. It is a very easy and interesting read, at the same time going into needed detail of high speed digital signalling issues. My course uses Digital Systems Engineering by Dally as text, but I find myself reading this book instead to get a better understanding, as it is clearer and better organized. Coming in really handy for my upcoming exam review!

Well organized book that does not skip on details. It explains in a clear and concise manner transmission line issues such as reflections, the why's and how's of matching impedance, and crosstalk among others.