1 comments about Design of Energy-Efficient Application-Specific Instruction Set Processors.

1. I am a hardware engineer in a fabless semicon company.
   For our latest project, we had to implement a design unit
   in a complex SoC. We implemented this unit as an ASIP using
   a special purpose instruction set, which enabled us to support
   various modes of operation by just changing the program code.
   I think many hardware engineers have already used this concept
   (many of them probably w/o even being aware, that they are
   designing ASIPs).
   
   The book of Glokler/Meyr gives a lot of theoretical background
   for an ASIP project, starting from the datapath design for
   signal processing and ending up with instruction issuing/encoding concepts.
   Many of these concepts are covered in standard computer architecture books.
   However, this book does not only focus on high level instruction
   set definition, but also on the VLSI implementation of it and
   on performance/power. It becomes obvious, that successful
   ASIPs do not need to be very complicated, but still can be
   energy efficient and computationally powerful.
   
   What I liked most about this book is the fact that the
   author does not tell you a lot of high level stuff. Instead, he
   uses many examples and figures to illustrate possible design
   alternatives.
   
   
   In summary, this book has given me a lot of new ideas on what I
   can do better in future ASIP projects!

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3 comments about Parametric and Feature-Based CAD/CAM: Concepts, Techniques, and Applications.

1. The book is written for all kind of reader. A undergraduate, graduate and research scholar like me can follow the book without any difficulty. The knowledge of CAD is not required for this book any with good attitude can use this book. The applications given in the book is really interesting and more usefull for understanding. Any one who wants to do a course in the area of cad/cam he/she must study the book.



2. This is a beautifully organised book, taking you through CAD/CAM methodology. Importance of features in modelling practice has come out very well.

   However, the concepts of parametric, variational and hibrid modeling techniques could be made more elaborate and lucid. The mathematics dealt in this book also could be retouched.

   All these limitations aside, this is a class book. Ideal for university students and the guys getting into CAD/CAM development.




3. this book may give some better methodologies to follow cad/cam techniques in the stream of cad/ cam area

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4 comments about Autodesk Inventor 9: An Introduction.

1. I purchased this book hoping to get two things: a refresher on the Inventor program, and a quick reference while using the software. I found that this book was decent in giving me a refresher, but it wasn't very handy as a quick reference.
   Once I started using the software again, a lot of specific questions popped up. The Inventor Help is nearly useless, so I was really hoping for some clear step by step instructions. While these do exist in this book, the examples and pictures to support are not very clear.



2. Inventor 9 is Autodesk's challenge to more advanced modelling packages like ProE and Ideas. Cheng reveals that Inventor 9 offers many of the features seen in those more expensive alternatives. You can use this book and its CD to cheaply learn parametric modelling. This is just a fancy way of saying that you can parametrise various dimensions of parts in your object. In doing so, you can gain greater flexibility in easily varying these values, possibly to optimise the design of a composite object using those parts.
   
   Inventor gives 4 types of parameters - model, user, linked and embedded. The book details the differences. But the gist of the text is to rise above the low level machinations. Instead, you can grasp and use parameters naturally in your design. Like relating cells in a spreadsheet. Except that unlike a spreadsheet, the inherent graphical ability here leads you to comprehend far more.



3. Yes I fully support J. Heddinger writing in his review: "...now i need the advanced instructions...what about it cheng ?". It's the same story with each release: you can get an "Ïntroduction to..." or "Basics of..."! I think lot of typical users did not need an introduction to each release, what we need, in contrary, is a good "...release xx for professionals". Deep lay the flavours...



4. i've been using inventor since 5.3.....this is by far the best instruction book i've seen....it's great and covers every bit of everything if your trying to learn it. finally...too bad autodesk doesn't include this with the package. now i need the advanced instructions...what about it cheng ?

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