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For engineers, students, and technicians or hobbyists concerned with real-world implementation of complete digital systems--whether they involve a desktop computer or a car's engine controller--electrical engineer Balch covers underlying concepts as well as the practicalities of design. He begins with digital logic and microprocessor fundamentals and then proceeds to more advanced topics (logic design methodologies, high-performance memory and networking technologies, and programmable logic devices); critical analog support circuitry; and design issues such as clock distribution, power regulation, signal integrity, design for test, and circuit fabrication techniques.Copyright © 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR


Review
For engineers, students, and technicians or hobbyists concerned with real-world implementation of complete digital systems -- whether they involve a desktop computer or a car's engine controller -- electrical engineer Balch covers underlying concepts as well as the practicalities of design. He begins with digital logic and microprocessor fundamentals and then proceeds to more advanced topics (logic design methodologies, high-performance memory and networking technologies, and programmable logic devices); critical analog support circuitry; and design issues such as clock distribution, power regulation, signal integrity, design for test, and circuit fabrication techniques.


Book Info
Guide to understanding and navigating the interlocking components, architectures, and practices necessary to design and implement digital systems. Covers implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems, supporting analog circuit principles, and building complete systems with basic design elements and the latest technologies. For electrical engineers.


From the Back Cover
YOUR ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN!

The explosion in communications and embedded computing technologies has brought with it a host of new skill requirements for electrical and electronics engineers, students, and hobbyists. With engineers expected to have such diverse expertise, they need comprehensive, easy-to-understand guidance on the fundamentals of digital design.

Enter McGraw-Hill’s Complete Digital Design. Written by an experienced electrical engineer and networking hardware designer, this book helps you understand and navigate the interlocking components, architectures, and practices necessary to design and implement digital systems. It includes:

* Real world implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems
* Broad presentation of supporting analog circuit principles
* Building complete systems with basic design elements and the latest technologies

Complete Digital Design will teach you how to develop a customized set of requirements for any design problem — and then research and evaluate available components and technologies to solve it. Perfect for the professional, the student, and the hobbyist alike, this is one volume you need handy at all times!

What you’ll find inside:
* Digital logic and timing analysis
* Integrated circuits
* Microprocessor and computer architecture
* Memory technologies
* Networking and serial communications
* Finite state machine design
* Programmable logic: CPLD and FPGA
* Analog circuit basics
* Diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers
* Analog-to-digital conversion
* Voltage regulation
* Signal integrity and PCB design
* And more!


About the Author
Mark Balch is an electrical engineer in Silicon Valley who designs high-performance computer-networking hardware. His responsibilities have included PCB, FPGA, and ASIC design. Prior to working in telecommunications, Mark designed products in the fields of HDTV, consumer electronics, and industrial computers.

In addition to his work in product design, Mark has actively participated in industry standards committees and has presented work at technical conferences. He has also authored magazine articles on topics in hardware and system design. Mark holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The Cooper Union in New York City.

FROM OUR EDITORS

The Barnes & Noble Review
Here is a book you won't want to be without if it is your desire to design digital systems. Use it to learn from scratch or to refresh your existing skills in digital design: either way, you will find what you are looking for. Author Mark Balch includes excellent introductory "get started" subjects like basic memory and progresses to such specific tasks as circuit fabrication techniques. The writing is organized and lucid, and in no time you will be showing off your newfound skills.

There are four parts to this book, each of which addresses a crucial set of topics necessary for successful digital systems design. A complete discussion of digital logic and microprocessor fundamentals is presented in the first part (Chapters 1 to 6). More advanced computer architecture and logic design topics are covered in Part 2 (Chapters 7 to 11). Part 3 (Chapters 12 to 15) steps back from the purely digital world to focus on the critical analog support circuitry that is important to any viable computing system, while the fundamental topics from the first three parts are tied together in Part 4 (Chapters 16 to 19).

Learning how to design and implement digital systems is well worth the effort. This outstanding book will amply reward the reader by imparting a highly burnished skill that is both profitable and intrinsically rewarding. John R. Vacca

John R. Vacca, the former computer security official (CSO) for NASA's space station program (Freedom), has written nearly 40 books about advanced storage, computer security, and aerospace technology.

FROM THE PUBLISHER

YOUR ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN!

The explosion in communications and embedded computing technologies has brought with it a host of new skill requirements for electrical and electronics engineers, students, and hobbyists. With engineers expected to have such diverse expertise, they need comprehensive, easy-to-understand guidance on the fundamentals of digital design.

Enter McGraw-Hill's Complete Digital Design. Written by an experienced electrical engineer and networking hardware designer, this book helps you understand and navigate the interlocking components, architectures, and practices necessary to design and implement digital systems. It includes: Real world implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems Broad presentation of supporting analog circuit principles Building complete systems with basic design elements and the latest technologies Complete Digital Design will teach you how to develop a customized set of requirements for any design problem - and then research and evaluate available components and technologies to solve it. Perfect for the professional, the student, and the hobbyist alike, this is one volume you need handy at all times!

What you'll find inside: Digital logic and timing analysis Integrated circuits Microprocessor and computer architecture Memory technologies Networking and serial communications Finite state machine design Programmable logic: CPLD and FPGA Analog circuit basics Diodes, transistors, and operational amplifiers Analog-to-digital conversion Voltage regulation Signal integrity and PCB design And more!

SYNOPSIS

YOUR ONE-STOP RESOURCE FOR DIGITAL SYSTEM DESIGN!

The explosion in communications and embedded computing technologies has brought with it a host of new skill requirements for electrical and electronics engineers, students, and hobbyists. With engineers expected to have such diverse expertise, they need comprehensive, easy-to-understand guidance on the fundamentals of digital design.

Enter McGraw-Hill's Complete Digital Design. Written by an experienced electrical engineer and networking hardware designer, this book helps you understand and navigate the interlocking components, architectures, and practices necessary to design and implement digital systems. It includes:

* Real world implementation of microprocessor-based digital systems
* Broad presentation of supporting analog circuit principles
* Building complete systems with basic design elements and the latest technologies

Complete Digital Design will teach you how to develop a customized set of requirements for any design problem — and then research and evaluate available components and technologies to solve it. Perfect for the professional, the student, and the hobbyist alike, this is one volume you need handy at all times!