Reading up books: A building-block approach to digital design: An overview of digital design, advocating a hierarchical approach, is followed by a review and rating of five major texts

As a student, you may be asking yourself whether you wish to enter the digital systems field, an area that is growing in importance because of the ever-decreasing cost of powerful digital building blocks. Digital designers create digital systems such as computers, industrial controllers, and electronic games. They may also do programming, but our focus in this article is on design with digital circuits.