Digital Design: With an Introduction to the Verilog HDL, VHDL, and SystemVerilog

I was amazed at the condition of the book, I will definitely recommend this sender. However, I am a little concerned about the content of the book, I've seen a lot of bad reviews about wrong answers and I don't know if I will come across those since I have a class this semester and this book is essential in order for me to study the topics.

For at least 30 years Mano has been the go-to guy for digital design. I used his book in the 80s and now my son used it in 2017. He's still the king after all these years!

Good book

Book was ok but with tons of stickers and tape all over it. Took time to clean up for use

It reads like, while writing this, both writers were on different drugs and competing to see how long and drawn out they could make simple ideas. Most paragraphs in this book take up at least 1/3 the page. Each sentence is about 70% wasted filler. Why does this $200 abomination exist? Simple: the old version has a perfectly usable pdf and that doesn't help Pearson's profit margins.

The actual content of the textbook is great, but that great content is invalidated by the terrible examples and incorrect answers in the back of the book. If you need to use this book, avoid following the examples used to answer questions in the solution pages of the book. Also keep in mind that the solutions themselves are frequently wrong.

100% falsely represented

I am an Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering and I was the principal proponent for our university making a switch from Roth & Kinney (Cengage) to Mano & Ciletti (Pearson). When I reviewed the book from a high level, I greatly appreciated how concise Mano & Ciletti’s text was compared to the verbose tendency of Roth & Kinney. As a sample, I closely reviewed Chapter 3 of Mano & Ciletti’s text on K-maps and, I must say, I still think Chapter 3 is an outstanding chapter overall, even taking the errors I encountered into consideration. That said, the numerous errors in practice examples meant to teach the students fundamental concepts (particularly in Chapters 1-2) are unacceptable. In many cases, the errors are the common errors made by students (e.g., not reading the values in reverse when converting from decimal to another number system via repeat division operations). As such, the textbook actually has a negative effect on the learning process by training students to do things incorrectly.I use my own resources for teaching VHDL, but the addition of VHDL to Mano & Ciletti’s 6th Edition contributed greatly in helping me convince my colleagues to switch textbooks. However, the lead instructor for the course teaches VHDL directly from the textbook and he has nothing but vitriol for the VHDL examples, many of which apparently do not even compile without debugging. I understand that some errors are prone to happen when a text makes a large change (such as adding VHDL where there previously was none). However, the number of errors encountered in fundamental Chapters 1-2 are completely unacceptable for an established textbook (now in its 6th edition) that is recognized as one of the premier texts in the field. Furthermore, the fundamental chapters spend too much time on theory rather than application. To name a few:1) Intermingling 9’s and 10’s complement inextricably with 1’s and 2’s complement (Section 1.5),2) Extended discussion of BCD arithmetic (pg. 24-25) even while admitting that there is almost no benefit to performing computations in BCD today (pg. 27),3) Approaching Boolean algebra from a theoretical approach as one would expect in a math class (Section 2.3 in particular) rather than an applied intuitive approach for design as appropriate to an engineering course.To be honest, I feel duped. I reviewed the textbook at a high level, trusting that a premier text now in its 6th printing would have most fundamental errors worked out. I even committed our university to creating a custom textbook, giving our students no ability to resell their textbooks except to our local bookstore assuming we continued to use the text in future semesters. However, the text contains so many fundamental errors in the early chapters that it is unusable. Rather than improve our students’ educational experience and save them money using a soft-cover custom text, I have worsened their education, cost them money for a textbook they won’t continue to use and cannot resell, and cost my colleagues and myself numerous hours of course adaptation to a textbook that should never have been printed in its current form.Full disclosure: I stopped reading through the text starting with Chapter 4 as I intend to make do as best I can for the remainder of the semester and switch to a different textbook next semester.