Customer Reviews

Principles of Digital Design

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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.

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.

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.

This book doesn't have the greatest examples for the students. It also lacks a solutions manual. Not worth a 100 bucks to say the least.

Much Errata in this book. Many concepts are just not explained in terms that can be understood. More effort was spent on marketing and cover design then content and proof reading.

overall a very good book. by the way, is there a solution manual that covers all the assigned problems in the book. i though the problems are hard enough.

The book goes into great detail, but lacks one important item; an answer guide.

However, students need the solutions manual to help them understand and master these "principles."