Digital Design: A Systems Approach

good book

It's not terrible, but the way the book can define new concepts can be confusing. It takes me a long time and some googling to figure out what the author is trying to explain sometimes. The way he describes what hazards are in chapter 6 ends up complicating a really simple topic, which seems to be a reoccurring theme with this book. Just wait till you get to the explanation on multiplexers in Chapter 8-- instead of taking the time out to write out a simple explanation, that albeit is slightly redundant, he kind of puts the alternative values in parentheses and doesn't give an example or explanation in WTH he's doing. Again some of the stuff is well explained, which is especially nice if your professor isn't ideal. Other than that, good luck.

Good Digital Design Materials, but book PACKAGING is BAD as back to 100-year-ago binding process! Pages almost fall off as a NEW book. Instead of saying 5 STARs for awesome Digital Design contents, I give 3 STARs due to POOR QUALITY CARE of book binding technique and process.

It took two weeks for the book to arrive, and the book was already bent when it arrived. Further more, the book continues to break apart even though I only used a few times for assignments.

This is the most readable of academic textbooks on Digital Logic (although it lacks the enthusiasm of "Bebop to the Boolean Boogie" by Clive Maxfield). Extensive use is made of Verilog as a logic description language, and state machines, an important concept in the design of time and state dependent logic are explained fully. Given the coverage of Verilog, I might have appreciated some introduction to FPGA's to round out the modern focus and coverage of this volume.

Dally and Harting do a great job in this book aimed at computer and electrical engineering students. There are plenty of illustrations and examples and the content and writing style is oriented for academic classrooms rather than as a desk reference.

Several important things that this textbook falls short of to qualify as well made.The chapter sections are bulky.There is no glossary of terms.There are no/little answers and explanations for the exercises.I expect more from a textbook to help a student learn efficiently.

I bought this book for my class and this is the cheapest one I could find. The only problem is the the leaves are too sensitive. they easily get detached from the spine.