1 comments about Residential Design Using AutoCAD 2007.

1. As an Interior Design student, I found this book to be helpful in understanding how to use AutoCAD 2007 more effectively.

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5 comments about System Design with SystemC.

1. I read this whole book trying to figure out who it was written for, and failed.
   
   To all outward appearance, it seems to address the C++ programmer who, for reasons unknown, has been thrown into the task of creating executable specifications for complex HW/SW systems. Well, it happens. That poor slob's problems are never really addressed.
   
   The authors spend significant time discussing bit-accurate, cycle-accurate, both-accurate, and neither-accurate simulations. Those topics all deserve attention, as does optimization of the model for faster simulation time. The typical programmer, however, just won't be ready for concepts of sensitivity and some of the weirder forms of assignment. Straight-up hardware guys won't get the classing structures, and won't see all the discussion they need to translate statements into cycles; software guys won't get enough of the class hierarchy to follow along, and will need to sit down with someone for a long time to understand why all those fixed-point formats deserve to exist. (You wouldn't believe some of the questions I've gotten. For example, "0.56 isn't a fraction with power-of-two denominator - so why does that scaling logic assume I can just shift?" Lawd lumme, what kids don't learn these days.)
   
   There's not enough here of hardware system analysis for the software guys, and not enough of the C++/SystemC strangeness for a logic designer to grab hold of. On the whole, it looks like a fair answer to a question that I didn't hear asked.
   
   -- wiredweird



2. This book is not meant to be a introductory book or
   about the SystemC language or coding guidelines.
   For that please refer to other elementary or primer
   book or the user guide available for download from
   systemc website.
   
   This book is mainly useful for researchers to understand
   the philosophy behind the SystemC language and
   interesting problems addressed by the language.



3. SystemC is my bread and butter and I bought this book with great hopes to understand both the language and the underlying concepts of the language, unfortunately the book provides neither. I think it is a grossly overpriced useless book.



4. A very good book, if it is used as a reference material, specially for TLM modeling, it helps along with the code for simple_bus available at www.systemc.org. For starters, I will recommend to add more examples in the text of the book as the systemC library is huge. It is sometimes very hard to remove the bugs, if sufficient examples are not available. A suggestion will be to add a functional model example of a CPU based system design, so that the ideas can be extracted out of the text easily.



5. I am a active user of SystemC, so had great hopes for either a real reference or even an introductory book. Unfortunately, this book provides neither a introduction to the language, real world help for coders, or even reference material. The free manual with SystemC better then this. Worse, it badly needs editing to clean up awkward sentances.

   Generally I expense technical books, but I feel too guilty to bear the company with this overpriced book. Back it goes.

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2 comments about Japanese Design.

1. I've long been fascinated by the (to Westerners) strangenesses of Japanese culture and society, and I'm also interested in "life style" design, so I was particularly taken with this book. Each of the beautifully illustrated chapters deals with one aspect of the Japanese approach to the visual -- fashion, architecture, interiors, food and drink, transport, consumer products, housewares, communication and packaging, and transport -- and the author gives as much attention to the social psyhology behind Japanese traditions and interpretations as to the art and design itself, examining Japan's communitarian aspects and the tension between colorful individualism and finely developed herd instinct. A terrific book.



2. A worthy update on the world of Japanese style and design. Both pictures and text provide an insightful look into the Japan of the new millenium. The architecture, packaging, and fashion sections were of particular note. Highly recommended.

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2 comments about Exercise Workbook for Advanced Autocad 2007.

1. Remember you can only load the AutoCAD 2007 trial software for "one" thirty day period! If you have used it for a previous workbook you cannot reload the software.



2. this is one of, if not the best tutorial exercise workbooks on the market. You never have to crack open a technical text book to become familiar with Autocad and the author is very intuitive to teaching, without complicating it. A great basics references book as well.