Principles of Digital Design [Paperback]

Daniel D. Gajski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: September 19, 1996 | ISBN-10: 0133011445 | ISBN-13: 978-0133011449 | Edition: 1

This book is designed to facilitate a thorough understanding of fundamental principles without requiring readers to memorize an excess of confusing technological details. Rather than focusing on techniques for one particular phase of design, it covers the complete design process, from specification to manufacturing.

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From the Publisher

This text is designed to facilitate a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of design without requiring readers to memorize an excess of confusing technological details. It integrates fundamentals with state-of-the-art techniques in computer design to demonstrate the complete design process, from specification to manufacturing.

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This book is designed to facilitate a thorough understanding of the fundamental principles of design without requiring readers to memorize an excess of confusing technological details. It integrates fundamentals with state-of-the-art techniques in computer design to demonstrate the complete design process, from specification to manufacturing.

FEATURES:

• Presents clear connections between principles and practice. (Throughout)
• Progresses naturally and patiently through the design process, ranging in complexity from logic and sequential levels to the levels of RISC processors and complete ASICs. (Throughout)
• Introduces a generic component library that reflects practical design constraints to help explain concepts and implement worked-out examples. (Ch. 5, 7)
• Takes a contemporary approach to logic and sequential design, emphasizing a coherent design process instead of manual design techniques. (Throughout)
• Introduces an ASIC design process based on the sequential and behavioral synthesis used in modern CAD tools. (Ch. 8)
• De-mystifies the art of processor design by extending synthesis techniques to microprocessor design. (Ch. 9)
• Demonstrates processor design on CISC and RISC processors including instruction set design and datapath design with data-forwarding and branch prediction. (Ch. 9)
• The book features:
• Step-by-step design procedures in each chapter.
• Comprehensive worked examples that demonstrate designer's options and choices. (Throughout)
• Over 300 color illustrations that use color to enhance learning and material retention.

Product Details

• Paperback: 447 pages
• Publisher: Prentice Hall; 1 edition (September 19, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0133011445
• ISBN-13: 978-0133011449
• Product Dimensions: 8.7 x 8.6 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #781,344 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's not just bad, it's terrible., December 2, 2006

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S. Akopov - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Principles of Digital Design (Paperback)

This book is just a mess. It doesn't explain a list of concepts per every chapter and what it does discuss is just hard to follow. There are too many typos in the Exercise section and even some example problems are incorrect. Then you go to check the back of the book for answers and you won't find any. So you're essentially stuck with a crappy material that is faulty in the explanation of concepts and that won't let you even check your work. As the other reviewer pointed out, the money was clearly spent on making the book look good rather than trying to proof-read it and focus on the content.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A nice intro. to digital design, February 17, 2001

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Todd Ebert (Long Beach California) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Principles of Digital Design (Paperback)

This book is very suitable for a 10 week intro. course to digital design. In fact, the author wrote the book with this in mind, since he teaches ICS 151 at UC Irvine which is a 10 week introductory course on the subject. As an instructor, I was thankful that the book came with transparency templates and a solutions manual (although the publisher does not sell it to students). Using this book is also advantageous for the computer science major who needs a solid foundation in digital design for learning computer architecture, but does not need to be overburdened by an indepth analysis of issues such as timing, hazard-free designs, etc. (although these subjects are discussed, but not in much detail). Moreover, the final chapter discusses design and synthesis issues for developing a cpu. Thus, this book is very appropriate for computer scientists and computer engineers...but may be not the best book for a design engineer who may need a reference with more information.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars complete ripp off!!, September 13, 2010

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Sean Neruda "-Sean" (Florida, USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Principles of Digital Design (Paperback)

Well as i have already looked through the book it not great. It doesn't give enough examples and explain some of the concepts very briefly. Hardly a good book to learn from.

To top it off this is supposed to be the hardcover version and amazon continues to sell it as hardcover and with the price tag for a hardcover. In fact they sent me the softcover version, which has ONLY black and white pages which seem to be from recycled paper. I would expect this from an international edition but it doesn't seem to be one. I checked my invoice and sure enough it says hardcover. I called and asked for a replacement and they assured me they would send me a hardcover. They took about 15 days just to get the replacement shipped but were quick to suggest i ship the book i have immediately. Today i received the book (overnight shipping) and to my amazement it is in fact the exact same book i received before a SOFTCOVER. So now i have to call again complain again and waste my time shipping two books(for a student its valuable and not being able to study from a book is even work with an exam already next week)

I have never had this experience with amazon and even being a prime member i am disgusted with how they are ripping people off this is truly appalling and i think i will cancel my prime membership and take it else ware even if it means paying a little more but actually getting what i pay for...

My opinion don't buy it here.