These projects are really fun. On the other hand, you might want to learn in a way that lets you build hardware (esp for FPGA's). For that, I suggest a few type

These projects are really fun. On the other hand, you might want to learn in a way that lets you build hardware (esp for FPGA's). For that, I suggest a few types of books with examples: - Computer architecture or CPU design book covering modern designs with their tradeoffs https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Approach-Kaufmann/dp/0128119055/ref=d_m_crc_dp_lf_d_t1_sccl_3_1/139-2849439-8399939?pd_rd_w=b3QVg&content-id=amzn1.sym.5d471845-5073-424b-b27b-c0676f48a016&pf_rd_p=5d471845-5073-424b-b27b-c0676f48a016&pf_rd_r=JDREN15KEBVWZZ35RBPP&pd_rd_wg=TPBwg&pd_rd_r=41f7d839-8893-4910-b730-0a6b6c2f9fda&pd_rd_i=0128119055&psc=1 https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Quantitative-Ap... - Introduction to Verilog or VHDL (languages for hardware) maybe on FPGA's or well-known boards https://www.amazon.com/Programming-FPGAs-Getting-Started-Verilog/dp/125964376X/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=Programming+FPGAs%3A+Getting+Started+with+Verilog+by+Monk&qid=1690028736&sr=8-1 https://www.amazon.com/Programming-FPGAs-Getting-Started-Ver... - High Speed Digital Design (many recommended it) https://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp/0133957241 https://www.amazon.com/High-Speed-Digital-Design-Handbook/dp... - Cookbook with many examples for FPGA's I don't have one. Most with these titles are expensive. One that looked promising had bad reviews. I'll leave it to HN to fill in the blanks. - High-level synthesis Most exciting one I remember when I stopped researching this stuff was Synflow. I don't know if they're still around. https://www.synflow.com/ https://www.synflow.com/ Before that, I had saved Baranov's work which showed how to turn Abstract, State Machines into actual hardware. It was like a how-to on high-level synthesis that he used commercially at Synthezza. I still share them periodically in case someone wants to build an OSS version. I also saw ASM's used in verifying compilers and hardware in separate work. There's a good chance someone can turn many things into a unified, field theory of sorts using ASM's. https://www.amazon.com/Finite-State-Machines-Algorithmic-Complex-ebook/dp/B078RYYBCJ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1515915758&sr=8-1&keywords=samary+baranov https://www.amazon.com/Finite-State-Machines-Algorithmic-Com... https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/second-ebook-samary-baranov-high-level-synthesis-digital-baranov https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/second-ebook-samary-baranov-h...