Reddit reviews Digital Design and Computer Architecture

I'd check Amazon for older books you can get on the cheap. Schaum's outlines as mentioned are also good.

Books

• Base Coverage
  Forrest Mim's Basic Electronics and Basic Semiconductor Electronics
  (Little More Advanced) Art of Electronics (Student guide is probably better for introductory coverage)
  
  
• Circuit Fundamentals
  http://www.pearsonhighered.com/nilsson/
  http://openbookproject.net/electricCircuits/
  
  
• Electronics
  http://www.oup.com/us/companion.websites/umbrella/sedra/
  TI's OPAMPs for Everyone
  Analog Devices (ADI's) OPAMP Applications
  
  
• Computer Architecture & Digital
  http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-Harris/dp/0123704979
  
  
• Digital Electronics
  http://www.ddpp.com/
  http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-4th-Morris-Mano/dp /0131989243
  
  
• Computer Architecture
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B006FG1HNM/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_2?pf_rd_p=486539851&pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&pf_rd_t=201&pf_rd_i=0123704901&pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&pf_rd_r=0E8VJTKJAF2SY73PY6V4
  
  
• Linear Systems
  Lathi
  
  
• DSP
  Oppenhiemer/Proakis or Schaum's Outline
  Signal and Systems Made Ridiculously Simple
  
  
• Controls
  http://www.pearsonhighered.com/dorf/
  
  
• Field Theory
  I don't have a good suggestion.
  
  
• Optics
  Hecht
  
  
• Antennas
  Balanis
  
  
• Power (Utilities)
  I have several different books in this area, but wouldn't suggest any of them.
  
  
• Power Supply Design
  TI Unitrode Notes
  
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  Resources
  
  Spice
  http://www.uta.edu/ee/hw/pspice/
  
  http://williamson-labs.com/
  
  http://dspcan.homestead.com/files/idxpages.htm
  
  http://www.falstad.com/mathphysics.html
  
  Mechanical Universe
  http://www.learner.org/resources/series42.html
  
  http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/hph.html
  
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  Software
  
  
• LTSpice from Linear Technology
  
  http://www.linear.com/designtools/software/
  
  http://www.ieca-inc.com/images/Spice-Simulation_Using_LTspice_Part_1.pdf
  
  http://www.ieca-inc.com/images/Spice-Simulation_Using_LTspice_Part_2.pdf
  
  
• Octave
  DSP/Controls
  
  
• Verilog/VHDL FPGA design
  Altera Quartus II
  Xilinx ISE
  

"Digital Design and Computer Architecture" by Harris & Harris

Nand to Tetris (coursera)

the first half of the book is free. You read a chapter then you write programs that simulate hardware modules (like memory, ALU, registers, etc). It's pretty insightful for giving you a more rich understanding of how computers work. You could benefit from just the first half the book. The second half focuses more on building assemblers, compilers, and then a java-like programming language. From there, it has you build a small operating system that can run programs like Tetris.

Code: The Hidden Language of Hardware and Software

This book is incredibly well written. It's intended for a casual audience and will guide the reader to understanding how a microcontroller works, from the ground up. It's not a text book, which makes it even more more impressive.

Computer Networking Top Down Approach

one of the best written textbook I've read. Very clear and concise language. This will give you a pretty good understanding of modern-day networking. I appreciated that book is filled to the brim of references to other books and academic papers for a more detailed look at subtopics.

Operating System Design

A great OS book. It actually shows you the C code used to design and code the Xinu operating system. It's written by a Purdue professor. It offers both a top-down look, but backs everything up with C code, which really solidifies understanding. The Xinu source code can be run on emulators or real hardware for you to tweak (and the book encourages that!)

Digital Design Computer Architecture

another good "build a computer from the ground up" book. The strength of this book is that it gives you more background into how real-life circuits are built (it uses VHDL and Verilog), and provides a nice chapter on transistor design overview. A lot less casual than the Code book, but easily digestible for someone who appreciates this stuff. It culminates into designing and describing a microarchitecture to implement a MIPS microcontroller. The diagrams used in this book are really nice.

I run tutorials and labs for a "Foundations of Digital Design" unit. We use:

http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Design-Computer-Architecture-Harris/dp/0123704979

From my experience this is a good book, an improvement on what we used to use (Mano & Kime).