Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals [Hardcover]

M. Morris Mano (Author), Charles R. Kime (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0130124680 | ISBN-13: 978-0130124685 | Publication Date: September 17, 1999 | Edition: 2

This work covers the fundamentals of hardware and computer design using examples to build understanding and problem-solving skills. New features for the second edition include sections on VHDL and Verilog, 125 extra pages on the book's website.

Editorial Reviews

From the Publisher

Based on the classic best-selling title Computer Engineering: Hardware Design (1988), this new text presents the fundamentals of hardware design and integrates state-of-the- art techniques and technologies in a smooth, easy-to-understand style with abundant use of examples to build understanding and problem-solving skills. The text provides excellent preparation for courses in contemporary computer architecture and organization that emphasize system-level concepts but present only a cursory treatment of actual hardware design. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From the Back Cover

Reflecting the current industry trend of doing designs using hardware description languages (HDL) instead of logic diagrams, this straightforward guide presents the fundamentals of hardware design and the latest techniques and technologies in a smooth, easy-to-understand style with an abundant use of examples to build understanding and problem-solving skills. Presents a gradual development of logic, design, digital systems and computer architecture concepts, and more real-world examples and problems than any other book of its kind. Covers digital circuit delay early on to prepare readers for forthcoming study on pipelining, and weaves an on-going example of a simple computer system throughout to illustrate the principle impact of each topic in digital systems design. Discusses both VHDL and Verilog languages usage in combinational design sequential circuits, registers, datapaths, and multipliers, and dedicates 125 pages on an accompanying website that includes all source files for VHDL and Verilog examples. Includes new material on inertial delay, dynamic RAMs, jump and branch instructions, and Universal Serial Bus. For professionals in electrical or computer engineering, computer science, or computer architecture, or for anyone interested in fundamental computer hardware design.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 652 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall College Div; 2 edition (September 17, 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0130124680
• ISBN-13: 978-0130124685
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 7.1 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (40 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #505,771 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs more examples!, March 11, 2003

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Adam Pasztory "adampasz" (San Francisco, CA United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals and Xilinx 4.2 Package (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

The other reviews said it all. This book is detailed and thorough, but is practically impossible to learn from because there are not enough examples, and there are no answers to the problems! You can get selected solutions on the website, but even with the answers, it can often be very difficult to figure out how to do the problems.

I'm on Amazon.com right now because I'm desperately seeking other books that will help me pass my Logic Design class...

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The worst I have ever seen, July 18, 2004

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Alireza N (Vancouver, Canada) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals (Hardcover)

This book is the WORST book I ever used. There are barely any examples. The contents are written very unclearly. It takes long time to undertand the SOLVED EXAMPLE in the book, let alone the problems.
Even solved problems on the website, you find wrong solutions...
I DO NOT recommand anyone even read this book...

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars was the lowest I could go, November 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Logic and Computer Design Fundamentals and Xilinx 4.2i Package (2nd Edition) (Paperback)

This book is the worst book I ever used there are barely any examples or I should say full examples. The index doesn't match the text so you can't use it to look up key points. If you have a instructor who is going to use this book do yourself a favor and tall him/her out of it.