Breakdown by Stuart Sutherland

Breakdown by Stuart Sutherland

Stuart Sutherland's account of his experience of manic depressive illness . A psychologist who suffered a severe mental breakdown, Sutherland's book has been revised and updated, including new chapters on the latest drugs available, such as Prozac, and their effects on the brain, as well as critical appraisal of the latest trends in therapy.

This is a book unlike any other I have readIt combines a searingly honest and terrifyingly detailed account of a mental breakdown with a professional's description of the reality of mental illness as is is treated in our society. It is unforgettable. This is what a breakdown is really like. Kingsley Amis on the first edition of Breakdown

Mr. Stuart Sutherland is a member of the IEEE Verilog standards committee, where he is co-chair of the PLI standards task force and technical editor for the PLI sections of the IEEE 1364 Verilog Language Reference Manual.

Mr. Sutherland has more than 14 years of experience in hardware design and over ten years of experience with Verilog. He is the founder of Sutherland HDL Inc., located in Portland Oregon. Sutherland HDL provides expert Verilog HDL and Verilog PLI design services, including training, modeling, design verification and software tool evaluation. Verilog training is one of the specialties of Sutherland HDL. Prior to founding Sutherland HDL in 1992, Mr. Sutherland was as an engineer at Sanders Display Products Division in New Hampshire, where he worked on high speed graphics systems for the defense industry. In 1988, he became a senior applications engineer for Gateway Design Automation, the founding company of Verilog. At Gateway, which was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 1989, Mr. Sutherland specialized in training and support for logic simulation, timing analysis, fault simulation, and the Verilog PLI. Mr. Sutherland has also worked closely with several EDA vendors to specify, test and bring to market Verilog simulation products.

Mr. Sutherland holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, with an emphasis in Electronic Engineering Technology, from Weber State University (Ogden, Utah) and Franklin Pierce College (Nashua, New Hampshire). He has taught Verilog engineering courses at the University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Clara extension), and has authored the popular Verilog HDL Quick Reference Guide and Verilog PU Quick Reference Guide. He has presented tutorials and papers at the International Verilog Conference and at the International Cadence User's Group Conference, and has won awards for best speaker and best tutorial.

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ISBN 13	9780198523802
ISBN 10	0198523807
Title	Breakdown
Author	Stuart Sutherland
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Oxford University Press
Year published	1998-08-01
Number of pages	316
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.