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    While not off per se off-topic here, I would expect a higher resonance on EE.SE. (Sorry, can't help, Haven't had the need to learn thisrecently :)) Commented May 31, 2020 at 13:10
  • Perhaps if you could expand a little on what you actually want from (or in) such a book, it would help us to recommend one. Commented Jun 3, 2020 at 12:54
  • Sure. I'm specifically looking for CPU design, but from a practical aspect of view. VHDL and Verilog is OK. One example that is missing from DEC is pipepiling. Now, I know how it works, but clearly laying an actual design as DEC does is something that I have yet to find. As I've said in another comment, there's James Sharman's Pipelined CPU YouTube series, which is a great example of a concrete design I would be expecting from such book. Commented Jun 3, 2020 at 13:07
  • I'm not aware of such a book, and I doubt it exists. Pipelining adds serious complexity to a processor design if you want to show all the details, making it unsuitable for a textbook format, let alone for an undergraduate text like Malvino or the ones I mentioned below. Malvino could at least have mentioned pipelining in passing, and didn't: The concept goes back to the IBM Stretch, and was well in use on larger machines at the time. The 6502 has an almost-pipeline, overlapping execute and fetch for certain instructions, and that's not mentioned either. Commented Jun 3, 2020 at 16:35
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    If it's pipelining you're interested in, you might also want to take a look at Appendix C of Hennessy and Patterson, Computer Architectures. That's some 80 pages on pipelining alone, including a very detailed look at the MIPS R4000 pipeline. Commented Jun 3, 2020 at 20:20