Digital Electronics: Pearson New International Edition: A Practical Approach with VHDL

by William Kleitz

For courses in Digital Electronics, Digital Systems, and Digital Design. Digital A Practical Approach with VHDL, Ninth Edition , offers students an easy-to-learn-from resource that emphasizes practical application of circuit design, operation, and troubleshooting. Over 1,000 annotated color figures help explain circuit operation or emphasize critical components and input/output criteria. Throughout the text, the author employs a step-by-step approach that takes students from theory to example to application of the concepts. Over all nine editions, Kleitz has consistently sought out student feedback, along with his own experience of teaching the course in-class and on-line, to improve each new edition.

Genres: Nonfiction, Textbooks, Reference

940 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2003

Reviews

[Blue · Rating 2 out of 5]

Application focused, with exercises and step-by-step instructions including for multisim. This seems more geared toward Technician work than maker/engineer given the lack of explination on why circuits need a certain resistor or how something works. It did cover how the components interacted enough to give a good foundation for troubleshooting, including gate logic and it ended with a preview into RAM and CPUs.

[Lydia · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although it's produced by a major publishing company, this book has a very self-published feel. The text wanders all over the place with stream of conscience writing, parentheticals everywhere, critical formulas stuck in the middle of paragraphs so they're easy to miss.

Are you trying to make this harder than it has to be?

To be fair, I'm a tech writer by trade, so I am more than a little finicky about these things.

I'll be gracious and give the book three stars because Bill Kleitz did take the time to go through every chapter on his YouTube channel (BillKleitz). His videos made the material a lot more approachable than the text. Kleitz might want to stick to teaching over writing textbooks. Pearson should really get their act together as far as editing goes.