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book recommendation for self study in digital logic design

Hi,

I am looking for a self study book above the basic introductory level of digital logic design. Looking into what text books are used for senior level courses at Universities I found the two books:

"Computer Organization and Design" by David A. Patterson, John L. Hennessy "Structured Computer Organization" by Andrew S. Tanenbaum

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I was reading the comments on amazon.com and it sounds like the Patterson/Hennessy book is THE book to read for Computer architecture, but has a lot of editorial flaws. On the other hand, one comment about the Tannenbaum book sounds like it is better written to suite as an introductory than the Patterson/Hennessy one. Unfortunately there is only a brief table of content available for the Tannenbaum book to see more in depth what is covered in it.

What I am looking for is an easy to read book, with plenty of exercises to get me some hands on experience in the design of digital logic.

I would appreciate any recommendation about which book is better for self study.

Thanks for your help.

Cheers,

Guenter

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Guenter
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Those aren't digital logic books, those are computer architecture books. For my first course in logic design I used "Fundamentals of Logic Design" by Roth. For a mix of logic design and HDL, "Advanced Digital Design with the Verilog HDL" by Ciletti is quite good, but more advanced. I personally wanted to read "Digital Design: Principles and Practices" by Wakerly, which got good reviews but may be on the advanced side of things.

---Matthew Hicks

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Matthew Hicks

Mhh, the Ciletti book looks good. What I am struggling with is, once done with simple building blocks, how to put them together in a whole design.

I found another book along that line:

"Advanced Digital Logic Design Using Verilog, State Machines, and Synthesis for FPGA's" by Sunggu Lee

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Will see whether I can find some more information about it.

Guenter

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Guenter

After you learn the basics, i.e. read the books on logic design and on an HDL, it's time to have some fun. Get an FPGA development board and find a problem to solve or a cool project to work on. Start simple and build up to complex things. It may take a while until your projects become "interesting" but once you get going, "the world is your oyster."

---Matthew Hicks

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Matthew Hicks

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