Digital Systems Design Using VHDL

This book provides a very good introduction to VHDL and digital systems design. The material is presented well, and the larger designs in the back of the book are pretty useful. The 2nd edition has some pretty nice changes from the 1st edition, particularly in some of the designs throughout the book. The material -- the presentation and layout -- is basically the same. However, it's worth buying this edition due to the changes in the designs.

After an absence of not doing logic design for 20 years, I want to pick up the trade again. I selected this book. It turns out to be an EXCELLENT choice. In one chapter, the author reviews everything I learned 20 years ago on combinational and sequential logic. He then introduces VHDL to model both kinds of logic. From then on logic design is done with VHDL and implemented with programmable gate arrays. I would recommend this book to people who have studied a beginning logic design book such as Mano's.