Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog

Great product! Met all expectations!

If you have ever purchased the famous book on micro-electronics by Sedra and Smith, you might be familiar with how impenetrable it can feel to try and understand how to architect digital circuits. While Sedra and Smith begin at the level of equations for electricity and magnetism, Frank Vahid takes an approach that is more intuitive for the absolute beginner. In his book, Frank Vahid walks through how digital circuits work at the logic level, and then shows you how to design circuits with VHDL. In short, if you are a software engineer and want to start exploring electronics, you can quickly benefit from reading this book and working with FPGAs and Arduinos.

This book was required for a college class I was taking. I never actually read any of it, but I was surprised to find that I could sell it back to the Barnes and Noble on campus for almost three times higher than I bought it for. I religiously bought this book every semester and sold it back to the bookstore until I graduated.I didn't pass the class, but my whiskey was basically free for the rest of my college career. Highly recommend.

This book was formerly rented by the half blood prince and it has a lot of writing in it. At first I was upset but then I realized that the writing was more informative than the book.

Needed this book for my class and got it in time. The book itself is a great help to gain insight into digital design and logic but it is too wordy for me. The author goes on and on and on and.... just useless amount of rant to explain something so elementary and easy. At times I agree with the need for such technical jargon but most of the time the wordiness is a turn off. Very traditional and old world style text book writing where most of the book is actual TEXT. The examples however are a bit more helpful. Too bad there aren't enough of them.

Absolutely pristine condition. No marks, scratches, corner bumps, etc. Great product, Delivered on time and was exactly what was shown. Although my professor hardly used the book during lectures, came in handy when teaching myself beginning VHDL coding.

This arrived in time for Christmas but was not in condition for a gift. I returned it and will order a new NEW one.

I paid a lot of money for this book. It's nice, well written, but only a rehash of what I already know after 25 years of digital chip design. I was hoping that what Amazon calls it "Digital System Design with SystemVerilog" would be what I received. I should have looked at the "look inside" section more closely. Check out the title of the book - "Digital Design with RTL Design, VHDL, and Verilog" - no mention of SystemVerilog! I'm still keeping it because it's a good reference and it's a lot newer than my Palnitkar and Bhasker Verilog books. I really think I got baited and switched by the description. Nonetheless, if you're a student or have less than 10 years experience coding RTL, I think this book would be good. I also ordered SystemVerilog for Design and Verilog and SystemVerilog Gotchas by Sutherland et al and find those to be much more what I needed. I find that in general, while the Springer publisher books are very expensive and generally small, they are a lot more directed to experienced designers. I don't work for Springer and I don't know Sutherland so I hope you believe this is a sincere review. I just don't want other people throwing away money on something they already know.