References

In addition to the lecture notes which I will try to complete this year for the whole course, you might find the following references useful:

• Books on Boolean functions. These books are mathematical texts that deal also with issues such as designing fast circuits for various functions (e.g., fast addition, multiplication, division) and lower bounds.
  • "The complexity of Boolean functions" by Ingo Wegener, Wiley-Teubner, 1987. This book (called the blue book) even has an online version.
  • ``Boolean functions and computations models'' by Peter Clote and Evangelos Kranakis, Springer, 2001.
• Books on digital design. These are texts that discuss various issues in digital design and present combinational modules and synchronous circuits.
  • ``Introduction to Digital Systems'' by Ercegovac, Lang, and Moreno, Wiley, 1999.
  • Lecture notes by Ami Litman (in Hebrew).
  • ``Computation Structures'' by Ward, S. A. and Halstead R. H., MIT Press, 1990.
• Computer Architecture books.
  • ``Computer Organization and Design, The Hardware Software Interface'' by Hennessy and Patterson.
  • ``The Complexity of Simple Computer Architectures'' by Silvia M. Müller and Wolfgang Paul, 1995.
  • ``Computer Architecture: Complexity and Correctness'' by Silvia M. Müller, Wolfgang Paul, 2000.