I'd recommend this course: https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch If you're too advanced for this, I'd consider writ

I'd recommend this course: https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch https://www.coursera.org/course/comparch If you're too advanced for this, I'd consider writing some behavioral VHDL or Verilog for a few of the units to see how a few of the pieces fit together.