Digital Design

By Frank Vahid

Book Overview

While most popular digital design books present a perspective rooted in the 1970s and 1980s, Digital System Design takes the subject into the 21st century. It quickly moves through the low-levels of design, making a clear distinction between design and gate-level minimization. The book also emphasizes how one of the key uses of digital design today is to build high-performance alternatives to software in addition to glue logic. And it swiftly progresses to register-transfer-level (RTL) design since that is the level at which most digital design in practice today is performed.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0470044373
• ISBN13: 9780470044377
• Release Date: July 2006
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 540 Pages
• Weight: 2.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.3" x 10.4"

Customer Reviews

Excellent introduction to logic circuits

This is a great book for 1st year engineering students or engineers from other disciplines who need a basic, thorough introduction to digital logic. No previous knowledge is required. The book is systematic, well organized, and thorough. It covers gate level combinational and sequential logic, state machines, hardware fifos, and k-maps. There are numerous good examples that make the concepts very clear. If you read this book you will walk away with a good working knowledge of gate-level logic circuits. As with any engineering book, the best way to really learn is by working out examples. So I'd also recommend you get some basic FPGA software (ISE or Quartus) and an FPGA development board to practice with.

Excellent book set!!

The hard cover book (Digital Design) is excellent for students and instructors. The other one (VHDL for Digital Design) is a good book for starters in HDL language.