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4 Stars       -   Priciples of Verifiable RTL Design, 2nd Ed. by Lionel Bening & Harry Foster - Full Online Review Coming Soon
3-1/2 Stars       -   Writing Testbenches, Functional Verification of HDL Models by Janick Bergeron - Full Review by Cliff Cummings



Sunburst Design - Book Rating Criteria
Value Cumulative Stars Comment Book-Buy Recommendation
0.5 5.0 After meeting the criteria below - Subjective: I liked the book! (Almost no typos) Buy it!
0.5 4.5 If I agree with ~99% of the recommendations and guidelines presented in the book
0.5 4.0 Good book - good concepts - I disagree with a few guidelines and recommendations or some errors in examples or examples are incomplete - Most examples have been tested and are available for download
0.5 3.5 Good book - good concepts - I disagree with some guidelines and recommendations - some errors in examples or examples are incomplete
0.5 3.0 Reasonably good book but misses out on important recommendation to use nonblocking assignment when coding sequential logic Probably worth buying
0.5 2.5 Book content misses out on important recommendation to use nonblocking assignment when coding sequential logic and has very poor synthesis coding recommendations Buy it only if specific examples interest you
0.5 2.0 Some useful information or examples included - Horrible coding guidelines and recommendations - Numerous coding errors in the book - Following the book-recommendations will be detrimental to real designs
0.5 1.5 Only minimal useful information or examples included - Horrible coding guidelines and recommendations - Numerous coding errors in the book - Following the book-recommendations will be detrimental to real designs Not worth buying
1 1.0 Author wrote a Verilog book (this is the lowest rating permitted by some review forums)
0.5 * * Subjective: 1/2 star can be added to any score if there is something about the book that I like *


Last Updated on 10/15/01
By Clifford E. Cummings

Email: cliffc@sunburst-design.com




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