I found Digital Design by Mano and Ciletti to be a nice introduction to the basic building blocks of digital circuits. Four weeks later I'm studying laplace transforms and transfer functions please send help.
Thanks for the link. I’ve never heard of Wildar before; what an amazing character. Someone had a lot of fun writing that Wikipedia article:
“However, the story about Widlar bringing a goat to trim the lawn in front of his office, retold by The New York Times after his death,[14] was incorrect.[19] It was a sheep, not a goat;[68] Widlar brought her in his Mercedes-Benz convertible for just one day, which included a photo op for the local journalists.[19] According to Pease, Widlar abandoned her in the nearest bar;[19] according to Lojek the sheep was ‘mysteriously stolen’.[68]”
Hah. I went down the same path! I started with some "light" signal processing for an FPGA based project, and now, 2 years or so later, I'm deep into Laplace and z-transforms (and the foundations required for that).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Widlar#Fairchild_Semicondu...