Digital — Integrated Electronics By Taub And Schillingpdf 'link'

Digital Integrated Electronics by Herbert Taub and Donald Schilling is widely considered a classic foundational textbook for undergraduate engineering students

Yes—if you:

1. Foundational knowledge: The book provides a foundational knowledge of digital integrated circuits, which is still essential for understanding modern digital systems.
2. Evolution of technology: The book provides a historical perspective on the development of digital integrated circuits, which is useful for understanding the evolution of technology.
3. Analogies with modern technologies: The concepts and principles discussed in the book can be applied to modern technologies, such as field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs), and system-on-chip (SoC) design.

• Sedra & Smith (Microelectronic Circuits): Better for general analog circuits and current CMOS technology. But it is weaker on TTL and ECL (which are obsolete for new designs but crucial for understanding industrial control systems).
• Rabaey (Digital Integrated Circuits): The modern standard for deep-submicron CMOS. Excellent, but assumes sophomore-level device physics.
• Taub & Schilling: The best pedagogical bridge. It explains why a pull-up resistor is needed in TTL but not in CMOS. It is the Rosetta Stone of digital logic families.