Learning hardware

>>59267171
The Art of Electronics 3rd Edition, Paul Horowitz and Winfield Hill
Digital Design and Computer Architecture, David Money Harris and Sarah L Harris

>>59267230
Does this assume knowledge of physics?

>>59267249
Just basic math like multi-var calc, diff eq, and linear algebra.

>>59267230
The Art of Electronics is more an analog electronics book and it effectively teaches you some tricks right from the start.

But if you want to design digital electronics you absolutely need that background, if you don't want your digital circuit to fail and you don't know some close circuit is putting noise on your ground plane.

Happened to me when I wanted to make an analog logger.

>>59267249
Most books start by explaining how a transistor works. You don't need to know that to know how a circuit works.

>in depth
First learn Ohms & Watts laws, series and parallel circuits.
Then learn about capacitors.
>https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/textbook/direct-current/chpt-1/electric-circuits/

Get some 4000 series cmos IC's(they're more forgiving than TTL), a meter, breadboard & wire, various resistors and capicitors, LED's, a powersupply, and a couple 555 or 556 timer chips.
Learn basic gates, and boolean expressions
Move on to flip-flops and the 555 timer (oscillator)

For really in depth, learn assenbly language for a micro-controller.
For more abstract and productive, learn C, but have an idea about what going on when it's converted to assembly

>>59267395
Is buying a Arduino or a Raspberry Pi an learning from a "top-down approach" the correct way?

>>59267529
I don't think so. You should learn the basics first if you want in depth understanding.
I think people that start there only learn enough of the basics to get by.

>>59267171
I would suggest IBM TrueNorth